Exceptional Girls Podcast: Helping our smart but struggling girls feel seen, supported, and celebrated

Episode 7: How Parents Can Support Their Exceptional Girls with Dr. Gail Post

January 28, 2024 Julie Withrow: Podcast host, mom, neurodiversity advocate, education reformer, curiosity follower Season 1 Episode 7
Exceptional Girls Podcast: Helping our smart but struggling girls feel seen, supported, and celebrated
Episode 7: How Parents Can Support Their Exceptional Girls with Dr. Gail Post
Show Notes

In this episode of the Exceptional Girls podcast, you're invited to listen in as I talk with Dr. Gail Post, a clinical psychologist, professor, and author of The Gifted Parenting Journey: A Guide to Self-discovery and Support for Families of Gifted Children.

Based on her many years of experience working with gifted and twice exceptional women and girls, Gail shares:

  • Some of the not-so-obvious signs that your daughter may be struggling
  • Why the middle school years are often challenging for exceptional girls
  • Eye-opening statistics that explain why being a neurodivergent girl can be especially challenging
  • Advice for supporting your daughter through the transition to middle school and beyond

If you're the parent of a tween or middle-school aged exceptional girl, this episode is a must-listen.  

About Dr. Gail Post
Gail is a Clinical Psychologist, a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, a workshop leader, and writer.

Gail raised two gifted kids of her own, and she's been in practice for over 35 years, providing psychotherapy and parent coaching with a focus on the needs of the intellectually and musically gifted, and the twice-exceptional.

In addition to contributing articles and chapters to several books, Gail is the author of the Gifted Challenges blog and a book on parenting gifted kids called The Gifted Parenting Journey: A Guide to Self-discovery and Support for Families of Gifted Children.

About the Exceptional Girls podcast
If you know and care deeply about a girl who learns, thinks, and experiences the world differently, I invite you to journey with me as we learn how we as parents, adults, and role models can help her understand, self-advocate, accept, and love herself — just as she is.

To learn more, visit
www.exceptionalgirlspodcast.com.