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Category Archives: Positive Disintegration

  1. Regulate Overexcitability to Empower Your Voice – Part I: Emotions

    September 11th, 2019 by Laura Stavinoha | Issue 8: Growth Through Self-Understanding, Positive Disintegration |

    Voice coach Laura Stavinoha shares some methods for keeping your emotions from subtly seeping out through your voice.

  2. Self-Creation After Chaos: An Interview with Lotte van Lith

    July 3rd, 2019 by Jessie Mannisto | Issue 7: Creating the Self, Positive Disintegration |

    Chaos around her and intensity within her led the teenage Lotte van Lith to an eating disorder. Now, having recovered and reintegrated, she helps gifted people express their intensity with self-compassion—and let loose their incredible creativity in the process.

  3. How Overexcitabilities Manifest Through Your Voice

    July 3rd, 2019 by Laura Stavinoha | Issue 7: Creating the Self, Positive Disintegration |

    Voice coach Laura Stavinoha can hear your overexcitability in your voice—and she can tell whether it’s empowering you or leaving you vulnerable.

  4. Creativity as a Collective Activity

    July 3rd, 2019 by Krystyna C. Laycraft | Doing the Thing, Finding Your Tribe, Issue 7: Creating the Self, Positive Disintegration |

    Krystyna Laycraft tells the story of founding a school in Poland after the collapse of Communism, showcasing the role of individual choices within meaningful relationships.

  5. Transformative Life Experiences Through the Decision-Making Process

    March 6th, 2019 by Krystyna C. Laycraft | Issue 6: Ways Forward, Positive Disintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Emotion fuels our decisions; our decisions, in turn, mark the points in our lives that put us on the higher path. So argues Krystyna Laycraft as she reflects on her own inner psychic transformation while deciding to return to Poland after the fall of Communism.

  6. Sustainable Intensity and Self-Compassion: A Mindful Perspective

    March 6th, 2019 by Kelly Pryde | Issue 6: Ways Forward, Positive Disintegration |

    If we’re going to experience “positive disintegration,” does that mean we’re required to be miserable? Dr. Kelly Pryde, a neuropsychologist and coach, suggests mindfulness as a way to balance constructive suffering and damaging breakdown in intense people.

  7. Getting Acquainted with a Stranger

    March 6th, 2019 by Benita Jeanelle | Finding Your Tribe, Issue 6: Ways Forward, Positive Disintegration |

    From her earliest days as an intense, gifted girl, Benita Jeanelle spent her life trying to be who she was expected to be, and to achieve what she was supposed to achieve—until it caused her very personality to fragment.

  8. Order Out of Chaos Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Positive Disintegration

    January 19th, 2019 by Krystyna C. Laycraft | Issue 5: Connecting to Dabrowski's Theory, Positive Disintegration |

    Krystyna C. Laycraft brings her training in physics and psychology together to show how chaos theory and the theory of positive disintegration are essentially talking about the same process.

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