Living the Giraffe Life! Meet Lucinda Leo

Lucinda Leo is a hypnotherapist and coach based in Brighton, England. Although she always knew she was bright, Lucinda grew up believing that her intensity and quirks were totally separate and detracted from her intelligence. She became so good at camouflaging her ‘weirdness’ that she ended up in a job that leached her soul and surrounded by people who didn’t get her. It wasn’t until Lucinda went looking for ways to support her intense and sensitive children that she discovered her giftedness and began to create a life that celebrates her vibrant and intense true self. Lucinda's now passionate about helping other intense and gifted individuals discover and embrace their authentic selves.

TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• It helps to know if you are a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and if you are living with Overexcitabilities (OE)
• Gifted people do not need to be Highly Sensitive People or living with Overexcitiablities and Intensities, but there are a lot of overlaps and it would be recommended to also look into the topic of giftedness.
• Hypnotherapy can help you unlearn bad habits. Gifted adults who usually have great imagination tend to respond very well to hypnotherapy.
• With hypnotherapy you can redirect neurological pathways to unlearn unfavourable behaviours.
• Our conciseness is not necessarily made up from only one part, but might have various different parts
• Therapeutic paradox: The more you are afraid of something, the more you might be attracting this outcome
• Embracing your different inner parts can lead to increased wellbeing as gifted adults learn to embracing all their complex facets of their full self.
• Giraffes are vulnerable when they are babies. But then they grow up to be strong and tall and can put a lion in its place!
• Giftedness has nothing to do with superiority, it is a difference in learning and thinking style.
• Gifted people tend not to think linear, the are skip thinkers and meta thinkers.
• Self-understanding is a big important piece to a joyful life
• You have permission to be the full you! Try out all the things and be quirky and use spreadsheets as much as you like!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

The Giraffe Life for hypnotherapy & coaching

Laugh Love Learn blog about life in an intense family

Lucinda Leo’s YouTube Channel about intensity

Paula Prober Your Rainforest Mind

Elaine N. Aron’s book The Highly Sensitive Person

Marshal B. Rosenberg Non Violent Communication

Marie Kondo’s book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

InterGifted

Would you like to work with me 1:1 as your gifted and 2e coach? Please send me an email at [email protected] or find more information about my coaching offer on my website giftedunleashed.com/coaching

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