Tag: The Divergent Soul

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Honoring the outlier experience across body, mind, and spirit. The Divergent Soul traces the mythic path of those who move outside the collective norm—from the High IQ creative and the homeschooling family to the misdiagnosed child. By looking beneath the clinical labels, we recognize that what the world calls ‘dysfunction’ is often a unique psychic signature requiring its own way of learning and belonging. Here, we defend the right of every soul to develop according to its own nature, beyond the reach of industrial schooling and medicalized scripts.

  • True Blood

    True Blood

    Being told you’re somehow misshapen temperamentally can be a terrible injustice and heartache to a child. It’s also hurtful when we give the adults in our lives such messages of unacceptability.

  • Characteristics of the Gifted

    Characteristics of the Gifted

    Gifted people share certain characteristics that can make adaptation difficult when adapting means thinking, acting, or feeling within normal limits.

  • The Miseducation of Children

    The Miseducation of Children

    It’s increasingly common to diagnose young children, especially boys, with psychiatric disorders for behaviors once seen as typical. Dismissing well-established research on early childhood development, we insist on having our own way—even at the expense of our children. Later we’ll realize the cost was our own souls.

  • Diagnosing Boys Who Behave Badly

    Diagnosing Boys Who Behave Badly

    The reasons a child might struggle to fit in are as unique as each child. Too often, we rush to label or diagnose, risking misjudgments that can do more harm than good.