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When Giftedness Feels Like a Misfit Label: Why I Choose to Coach Gifted Women

It’s not a secret that giftedness made me feel like a misfit in most places I landed.

Even in the gifted program in elementary school, I never quite fit. I could do the work, sure—but I always felt like there was something else going on under the surface. Something I couldn’t name. I learned early to shrink, shape-shift, and mask—because “too much” or “too far ahead” was the message I always got back.

For years, I carried that subtle sense of dissonance. I could succeed, perform, produce—but it never felt fully aligned. I found myself constantly switching tracks, outgrowing roles, overthinking relationships, and navigating waves of over-responsibility, burnout, and deep existential unease.

I knew I was capable. I just didn’t know where I fit.

And then, as an adult, I finally put a name to it: giftedness. Again.

That single realization unraveled so much of my life story—and reassembled it into something that finally made sense.

Suddenly, the intensity, the sensitivity, the endless curiosity, the pattern-mapping, the resistance to hierarchies, the drive to matter—all of it clicked into place. I wasn’t scattered or broken. I was wired differently. And I wasn’t alone.

That clarity changed everything.

So when I finished my coach training, I knew exactly who I was meant to serve: gifted, creative, talented women who’ve been told their whole lives they’re “too much”—when in fact, they’re just not for everyone.

Why Gifted Women Need a Different Kind of Coaching

Gifted and twice-exceptional women face challenges that don’t show up in typical coaching conversations—but when you are one, you see them everywhere. These women are high-capacity, emotionally attuned, perceptive, driven…and often deeply stuck in ways that are hard to articulate.

Here are just a few of the places I see transformation happen most powerfully in this work:

Identity & Purpose Alignment

Multipotentiality is real. Many gifted women are pulled in ten directions because they can do so many things well. But the result is often confusion, analysis paralysis, and a lingering sense of failure. Coaching helps them clarify their core values, discern their highest-impact path, and shape an identity that holds all their complexity.

Dismantling Perfectionism & Impostor Syndrome

Even wildly accomplished women struggle to feel "good enough." They freeze in the face of perceived imperfection, or they discount their brilliance because it comes easily. It’s all they know. Coaching here helps shift them out of performance mode and into deep self-trust and creative flow.

Career Strategy & Visibility

Many of my clients have been under-earning, under-recognized, or simply bored in their careers—not because they’re incapable, but because they’ve been playing small, modest, supportive and self-sacrificing. I help them build the confidence and communication strategies to advocate for themselves, pitch bold ideas, and finally take up the space they were born to fill.

Boundaries & Energy Mastery

Gifted women often over-function. They give and give—because they can—until they hit a wall. Learning how to set boundaries without guilt, design a life that honors their nervous systems, and protect their creative energy is one of the most liberating shifts we make together.

Owning Their Unique Strengths

Because their gifts feel effortless, many clients assume they aren’t worth anything. They don’t know how rare, valuable, or real they are. Coaching helps them identify, name, and leverage their zone of genius—not just to feel better, but to build businesses, movements, and careers that reflect their true power.

Cultivating Authentic Confidence

This work is ultimately about rooting into internal authority—no longer chasing validation, but becoming their own source of clarity, direction, and approval. That’s when everything changes.

I didn’t set out to become a “gifted coach.” I set out to understand myself, and set right some patterns of behavior that were created out of my unusual socialization as a gifted girl (now, we are talking about intellectually/creatively gifted and “gifted” as in Alice Miller).

But what I accidentally found was a calling: to guide other women like me—high-octane souls with sensitive wiring—back to the truth of who they are and what they’re here to do.

You’re not too much. You’re not broken. You’re gifted. And your difference, though you cannot see it, is your power.

If you’re ready to turn the volume back up on your intuition, creativity, and clarity—I’d be honored to walk with you.