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Welcome! Here you'll find ebooks written by our community, where we share our personal stories and holistic perspectives on what it's like to be a gifted adult. As so little is written for the gifted adult, we hope that our vulnerability, authenticity, humor, and complexity will speak to you wherever you are on your own gifted journey. All proceeds from the sales of our books go back into supporting the InterGifted Community!
How I Healed My Gifted Trauma
true stories from gifted adults
Gifted trauma doesn’t stem from giftedness itself, but from the mismatch between gifted people’s complex inner worlds and the environments that fail to understand or support them. This wounding often disrupts our ability to fully accept, embody, and express our gifted selves, especially when layered with experiences of shock, betrayal, neglect or exclusion. The resulting fractures in our relationship with our gifted self disconnect us from essential aspects of our creativity, meaning and sense of existential belonging. Through healing and a return to wholeness, our gifted traits offer profound potential for growth, creativity, connection and meaning. How I Healed My Gifted Trauma is a collective exploration of that journey, written and illustrated by gifted adults around the world who have faced, integrated and restored wholeness following gifted trauma. Together, we show how uniqueness, adversity, and purpose can be woven into a deeper sense of existential belonging.
Compiled and edited by Jennifer Harvey Sallin and Lil Jedynak, in 2025. This book includes 18 stories and many more illustrations from 14 contributors.
Jennifer Harvey Sallin's article Gifted Wounds, Gifted Healing has been adapted from the book's introduction.
How I Healed My Gifted Trauma is an incredible collection! What an uplifting project. So brimming with uniquely authentic experiences that can't help but converge through the shared cycle of trauma and healing. I'm sure the echoes of each story will be heard and felt by many gifted readers seeking wisdom and healing.
I really love how creative - and hopeful - Healing Gifted Trauma feels.
Retrieving the Bones
Restoring & Re-Storying the Gifted Feminine
Retrieving the Bones is beautiful work. Changing the game, culture, in the gifted field. Every story, every image, a step forwards beyond grey goals into the heart of experience, expression and connections weaving away imagined norms.
Retrieving the Bones is for any gifted woman navigating her journey through time, through relationships past and present, and through her own gifted mind as it carries within it legacies from her ancestors and guides her to her own role in the collective becoming. Really, it's for gifted people of any gender, navigating their own complex relationship with the legacies of feminine wisdom (and oppression) that came before them, flow through them, and connect them to the world as it unfolds. It is a book for healing, creative agency, and deep reconnection.
These Gifts Are Sacred
Exploring our Giftedness Through Contemplative Poetry & Art
Sacredness is about wholeness. It is about value, worth, right, nurturance, gratitude, wonder, awe and reverence. For many gifted adults, we have lost touch with the sacredness of our gifts as they have been filtered through harmful cultural narratives and gifted traumas we have lived through. Remembering (re-membering) ourselves and our gifts in their sacredness requires a generous process of refocusing our attention and reclaiming our innate right to wholeness. In These Gifts Are Sacred, poets paired with artists in our community to create an anthology of illustrated poems exploring the sacredness of our gifted experience. This moving and deeply nourishing compilation invites you into the sacred space we've created, to re-member the wholeness of your gifted self together with us.
Compiled and edited by Jennifer Harvey Sallin, in 2022. It includes 36 contributors and 32 illustrated poems.
The whole Sacred Gifts compilation is brimming with complex layers of beauty woven through meaning and sentiments. It is an experience to immerse our whole selves in.
These Gifts are Sacred is a deeply important thread in the tapestry of the field of giftedness.
Emergence
Contemplations & Creative Expressions of the Gifted Feminine
PDF ebook | 212 pages | 22.00 USD
Emergence fills a crucial gap in literature about giftedness, and that is the embodied, intuitive, non-linear experiences of gifted women... Reading it is like having a sisterhood of complex, like-minded friends who are redefining what it means to be gifted by sharing vulnerably about their journeys.
Reading Emergence is a reminder of just how far we've come in legitimizing women's intelligence and how much further we can go, when we come together as a gifted community to give voice to what gifted women have to say.
Gifts for an Emerging World
Creative Writing & Art Compilation
Gifts for an Emerging World is such a beautiful exploration of the many levels on which gifted people experience themselves as part of nature, the earth, the universe.
While reading Gifts for an Emerging World, I felt comforted knowing that there are more people like me, experiencing a deep connection with trees and animals. Likeminded souls that are awake to the daunting reality that our well-being depends entirely on how “well” we treat our divine mother.
Making the Invisible Visible
Intersections of Chronic Illness, Disability & Giftedness
Compiled and edited by Karin Eglinton & Jennifer Harvey Sallin, in 2019. Includes 16 contributors and 20 entries.
Reading Making the Invisible Visible to me felt like I got a hug from a kindred spirit that felt so healing. A hug that gave me a sense of home-coming. All the pieces of my soul that had been scattered for such a long time, finally felt invited to come home again!
I was deeply moved by every single story shared in Making the Invisible Visible. And had many moments of recognition and mirroring. I have a feeling that, in putting words and images to their personal experiences, the contributors will have set off ripples of resonance.
Being Me
Reflections on the Gifted Person's Path to Authenticity
Authentic self-expression can feel like an enigma to a gifted or twice-exceptional person. How and with whom to express what it's like to be one's gifted self most naturally? And what's it like to be a gifted or twice exceptional working toward authentic self-expression? What does the path feel and look like? We explored these questions in the InterGifted community, via a community writing and creative expression project aimed at giving our gifted and twice-exceptional members the opportunity to write, paint, draw or otherwise express what it's like to walk their own path toward authentic gifted expression. The result is a deeply moving, inspiring, diverse, entertaining, and thought-provoking visual journey through the lives of your gifted peers around the world.
Compiled and edited by Jennifer Harvey Sallin and Trent Rhodes, in 2018. Includes 30 contributors and and 32 entries.
Read the blog article by Silver Huang that inspired Being Me: Giftedness & Authenticity
The depth of Being Me is immeasurable. I am in awe of the authenticity, raw emotions, exhibited intensity, truth and humanistic nature captured. You have composed and orchestrated beautiful, heart-telling art-of-the-mind. My wish, for many around the world: to read, to embrace, to reflect and to share.
Being Me touched parts deep within me which I have never dared to speak. Each story, essay, poem, and artwork connected to aspects of my gifted life and experience that have been hiding away, and gave me courage to believe that maybe I too can share my giftedness freely with the world. Thank you to each and every author for your vulnerability and inspiration!
Embracing the Gifted Quest
A Gifted Writing Compilation
How do gifted adults describe their inner experience of giftedness? What would they tell a younger version of themselves about becoming a gifted grown up? We explored these questions in the InterGifted community, via a writing month during which our members poured out their hearts and wisdom in essays, letters, poems and other writings. You'll be moved and inspired, and will find meaningful insight into your own giftedness and/or the giftedness of your loved ones.
Compiled and edited by Jennifer Harvey Sallin and Trent Rhodes, in 2016. Includes 16 authors and 19 entries.
Read these essays from Embracing the Gifted Quest on our Blog:
- "In Sync": The Power of Tribe - A Perspective on Giftedness, by Lea Stublarec
- Gifted Parenting: Three Treasures Along the Way, by Kelly Pryde