Author: Regina Hellinger

Regina Hellinger

Regina Hellinger is a professional coach who specializes in working with gifted individuals and their families to find ways to understand their unique nature, use their giftedness as a strength, and manage the challenges that come along with their giftedness so they can thrive in a society that doesn’t understand them but desperately needs them. She also works with teachers who are working toward their gifted endorsement in Orange County Public Schools, Florida as an instructor of Nature and Needs of the Gifted, Guidance and Counseling of the Gifted, and Special Populations of the Gifted. She can be contacted via email at ReginaHellinger@yahoo.com.

Over-excitabilities

Strategies for Dealing with Overexcitabilities

This post presents the BERRY Approach to help highly sensitive people harness emotional overexcitabilities. It outlines five strategies—Being With IT, Experience E-Motion, Recognize the Saboteur, Resonant Choices, and Your Compelling Purpose—and practical steps to accept, process, and channel intense emotions toward meaning, resilience, and creativity.

Regina Hellinger March 7, 2014

Over-excitabilities

The Gift of Emotional Overexcitabilities

This post argues that vulnerability underlies creativity and that emotional overexcitabilities in gifted individuals, though often suppressed, are also the source of their strengths. Instead of forcing them to outgrow sensitivity, we should acknowledge, nurture, and encourage authentic expression so their gifts and connections can emerge.

Regina Hellinger November 14, 2013