TPP 240: Heather Boorman on Supporting the Unique Needs of Gifted and 2e Learners During Covid
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the focus of the episode and who is the guest?
But they're struggling. I mean, these kids feel things more intensely. then the average person And so all of the things that we are feeling, they are feeling. at a intensified level.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and I am so excited to be back. You may have noticed if you're a longtime listener of this show that I took a little break. Really, the first substantial break I've taken in producing this podcast in almost five years. But while I was on break from releasing new episodes, I actually did a ton of interviews, which I will be sharing with you over the next few months, including conversations with Jessica Leahy, Julie Lithcott Haynes, Mercedes Samir. Mudio, Roberto Olavardia, and many more. Today on the podcast, I am excited to be bringing you a conversation about supporting the unique needs of gifted and 2e learners during COVID.
My guest is Heather Borman, a licensed clinical social worker, speaker, author, and advocate who, through her experience as a therapist and as a mother, is particularly passionate about working with kids on the fringes and their families. Heather hosts the Fringey Bid Podcast and is the author of The Gifted Kids Workbook: Mindfulness Skills to Help Kids Reduce Stress, Balance Emotions. and build confidence. Though we've talked a lot on this podcast about supporting all kinds of kids through this long, ongoing pandemic, I wanted to have an episode focused specifically on gifted and two E kids. Heather brings so many amazing insights to this conversation, providing a framework to understand how the uncertainty and changes during this last year might affect these unique kids, and she gives her best strategies for addressing both their needs and your needs as a parent.
And now here is my conversation with Heather. Hello Heather. Thank you for joining me on the podcast. Welcome to the show. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Not just on your
podcast, but just to get to talk to you again.
I know. I know. I was thinking it was Texas in July, I believe, for a SANC. I don't know why we went to Texas in July, but we did, uh no, for a Seng conference where you were being honored and it was really lovely to get to hang out with you. you yeah, it was
good too. 'Cause we had talked, I think well, yeah, you had been on my podcast and then um it was good to meet you in person. I always love seeing people in real life after I've known them a little bit. Yeah. Online. So
and and now we're not seeing anybody in real life again. So that's true. There you go.
And we're all scared what it's gonna be like when we do see people in real life again.
It's also true. Also true. Well, you know, I would love if you could just take a a few minutes and tell us a little bit more about kind of who you are and the work that you do in the world and then we'll we'll get into the content for today.
Sounds great.
So yes,
I am Heather Borman. I am a licensed clinical social worker, um, who works in western Wisconsin. And it's somewhat of a rural practice. I've had my practice for eleven years. This is actually my office manager just reminded me today is my eleventh anniversary. So
happy anniversary. Thank you.
Um yeah, so I started out as just kind of general mental health and then my oldest son, I have three kids, my oldest son He was fifteen now, when he was three, started asking me questions that I couldn't quite answer. So I went to a gifted conference. Um to just learn more about how his brain was working and at that point the whole world of the psychosocial needs of our gifted and two e kids opened up to me. And um from that point on I Have been trying to raise awareness and understanding of Giftedness as being a neurodiversity and not just being the smart kid in class and that there's far more um That we as gifted individuals need in terms of support emotionally, cognitively, relationally, um, than what really most of the population understands.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the focus of the episode and who is the guest?
0:00–5:21
2
How did Heather’s personal experience with her son lead her to work with gifted and 2e children?
5:21–22:23
3
How did the COVID‑19 pandemic change therapy delivery for gifted and 2e kids?
22:23–36:16
4
What existential questions are gifted children facing during the pandemic?
36:16–41:01
Speakers
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