Jennifer Harvey Sallin
MA, LLPC, NCC
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Coaching the gifted and intense for self-awareness Expert
Jennifer Harvey Sallin Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Conscious Working, Conscious Living, Giftedness, Meditation, Life Balance, Trauma Recovery and Healing
- Career Focus
- Business & Life Coach for the Gifted
- Affiliation
- REDISCOVERING YOURSELF: Guidance and Coaching for the Unique, Gifted & Curious
Jennifer Harvey Sallin MA, LLPC, NCC is a coach, counselor and instructor who devotes her work to supporting the gifted and intense. She coaches entrepreneurs, expats and other serious-minded clients who want to live, love, and work with greater self-awareness. She helps her high-potential clients consciously define life values and strategies, resolve self-defeating or self-destructive behavior patterns, and ultimately live their intensity and potential with a strong sense of purpose, self-worth, and joy.
Jennifer works in Switzerland in person and internationally by Skype, in English, French and Italian. For more information, visit: www.rediscovering-yourself.com
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Encouraging Positive Change: A “Magic Solution”
Clients often come to me in a state of agitation, impatience and panic (real or existential, sometimes both), wanting a “magic solution” for their current dilemma – which is, in fact, a microcosmic representation or symptom of their overall life dilemma. And while I really do have a “magic solution” to share with them, it’s never what they expect, and like any good magic trick, it takes practice to master. The magic solution? Gratitude. It’s like the skeleton key that opens whatever door is in front of you…
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Recontextualizing Struggle as a Creative Necessity
Many of us conceptualize “struggle” as “bad.” In our limited view, we consider that to struggle means to be in pain, and that to be in pain is bad. But it is exactly this reasoning that has caused so many of us to fall repeatedly into cycles of struggle recreation (often called self-defeating behavior patterns): to avoid struggle is to short-circuit a natural and necessary growth process, keeping us in a “Groundhog Day”[1] pattern of personal and relational problems. How can we resolve this dilemma?
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Did You Grow Up Too Fast? The Myth of Premature Maturity
The little girl with no needs. The little boy who takes care of mom. Premature maturity, is in fact, no escape from having needs or needing to be taken care of. It is not an escape from being a child, and it is in fact, not often maturity at all. Premature maturity is something else more painful: it is our childish attempt to buy (negotiate) a sense of security in a world of confusion, chaos, pain, death, illness, and feelings of loneliness and abandon. If we are just mature enough, maybe someone will care, will love us, will help us.
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Start…stop. Start…stop: Why can’t I finish a project? or The Dilemma of the Visionary
Visionaries aren’t just “people with lots of ideas.” Rather, a visionary’s brain has an astounding ability to make sense of seemingly millions of complex associations at lightning speed, working and reworking the puzzle of an uncountable number of infinitesimal factors, and seeing possibilities and obstacles that many couldn’t have conceptualized given a year’s time to reflect, research and plan. On one hand, it’s fun be a visionary!
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Living with Intensity: On the Role of Giftedness in Self-Actualization
I borrow the title of this article from the book: Living with Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults – a collection of articles published by Susan Daniels and Michael Piechowski which offers us a great introduction to Dabrowski’s theories and their application throughout the lifespan of gifted individuals, a subject which is worth our attention.
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What does "consciousness" mean?
I talk a lot about consciousness in my practice : “living consciously”, “making the unconscious conscious”, “consciously choosing”, and so on. But what does it all really mean?
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Self-Kindness for Life Balance
I often work with clients who want better life balance – better balance between work, personal, and family priorities. Difficulty with this issue could perhaps best be titled the Syndrome of Too Many Priorities, and I try to help clients resolve the dilemma by teaching them to practice regular questioning, self-honesty and self-kindness. How do these practices help restore life balance?
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