Tending Paths - Katy Higgins Lee, MFT

07/21/2025

Essential reading!

“This isn’t just a political moment. It’s a psychological one. A moral one. A disintegrative one.
We need tools that help us make sense of collapse, as something painful, yes, but also potentially transformative.”

Living with Integrity While the World Falls Apart. As systems break down, we need tools for inner growth. This post reframes collapse as a moment for choosing who we’re becoming.

07/21/2025

For the gifted adult who is seeking new approaches to personal discovery and development, Turning the Jewel: Story and Self is a six-week group experience that centers your creative consciousness as the vessel and vehicle. It begins on Sunday, July 27 at 1pm Eastern.

https://giftedandgrowing.org/groups/age-of-intuition-suite-offering/

You will write from your center and find the incalculable number of narratives that emerge from it. Turning the Jewel: Story and Self is an application of narrative medicine coupled with the older alchemical wisdom of ancient traditions. It will unlock deep truths and awake you to new possibilities inherent in living. This is a critique-free community that's about creativity and self-discovery, not about productivity or achievement.

https://giftedandgrowing.org/groups/age-of-intuition-suite-offering/

If you’ve been writing for sixty years or you’ve never written a story in your life, you're invited.

07/21/2025

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Unschooling is all of this, and it also allows us to witness (and tend) the creative paths our children discover when they have autonomy and respect.

07/14/2025

Why talk about giftedness?

The messages shown here reflect ways that gifted people often don’t fit normative expectations.

These sorts of messages often cause gifted people to mask their giftedness.
Yes, gifted people mask.

Of course, the degree to which they need to mask would depend on their environment, as it does with other kinds of neurodivergence.

And for those of us who are multiply neurodivergent, there is often a complex interplay between masking of giftedness and masking of our other kinds of neurodivergence.

07/11/2025

It was such a pleasure to present virtually for the Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy Conference Australia 2025!

07/09/2025

Like most neurodivergent people, gifted people often struggle to find deep connection and we often lack adequate mirroring of our experience.

Non-normative experiences like this are often perceived by others incorrectly.

We still have a long way to go in addressing these types of misconceptions and accepting that giftedness is a meaningful experience that includes a divergence from normative expectations, and is therefore a type of neurodivergence.

07/08/2025

I’m a therapist offering support to individual adults, couples, and groups in California—both virtually and in person.

07/02/2025

Here is the video of our Neuroqueering Somatics conversation!

with Dr. Nick Walker and Katy Higgins Lee Join us for a conversation as Katy Higgins Lee interviews Dr. Nick Walker, a leading thinker on the neurodiversity ...

06/30/2025

A way to describe monotropism.

06/20/2025

This is excellent in many ways, but especially in the description of reasons why we should not use the word “neurospicy”.

https://www.asianandaudhd.com/post/brown-afab-and-neurodivergent?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLC0v9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmFf7MTeNB3KZHN0CVMRs_id7sTGwnHH91fxl3svHo17x6ipL7S9e3JrQsFv_aem_wCBVoInEnrSIPX8Lk-gL4Q

Growing up in a predominantly white “Australian” neighbourhood in the early 90’s meant assimilation was key. I was given an “English” first name at birth so I would be spared the indignity of having people not know how to spell or say my name. My last name is still very Sri Lankan which gi...