Author: Melinda Stewart

Melinda Stewart

Melinda Stewart is currently the Director of Counseling at Groton School in Groton, MA and has worked with gifted children and adolescents in a variety of settings for over 30 years. She is the founder and former director of Voyagers, Inc., and has been on the staffs of the Stone Center at Wellesley College and McLean Hospital. She is the mother of two grown PG children.

100 Words of Wisdom

100 Words of Wisdom: Melinda Stewart

Melinda Stewart argues that when overwhelming emotions defy words, they often manifest as behaviors—writer’s block, self-harm, refusal, selective mutism, disordered eating, compulsions, or substance use. She urges understanding these actions as expressions of uncontainable feeling and translating and containing the voice of the heart.

Melinda Stewart November 20, 2014