This is the first news post on Gifted Minds, and the start of The Meta.cognition Blog. Metacognition is essentially “thinking about thinking”, and as a trauma-informed counsellor and therapist, I think about other people’s thinking a lot.

Some of my earliest childhood memories were of being flummoxed by other people’s reactions that were different from mine to the same events. I’d puzzle over the thinking that was behind their reactions. And my early verbosity might have been the counter to those reactions; me attempting to explain the differences, sometimes just for social survival! Because, strangely, not many people tried to figure out my thinking. By the time I really started studying Psychology in my 40s, I felt like I’d already struggled through four decades of personal field research while being somewhat neurodivergent myself.

The more I’ve learned about neurodiversity, neurodivergence, and neuroscience, the fewer assumptions I make, and the more open and interesting conversations tend to get. I’ve had a wonderful time discovering my niche in the counseling world, and it’s a lot about understanding how giftedness, neurodivergence, and trauma affect our thinking, feeling, and relating.

In this blog I’ll be posting about resources, books, and topics I enjoy from the field of mental health and being “differently brained’. Thanks for being here!