Boonie Sripom: How Archetypes Make Us Who We Are

Season 1, Episode 2

Today’s guest: Boonie Sripom, MA, is a therapy-informed and gamer-affirmative coach who uses archetype systems to support neurodivergent people and their families. She loves seeing the inner worlds and cognitions of people through their fandoms like video games, superhero culture, and creative interests — It's all meaningful! Boonie started working with preschool and school-aged children, and now most of her clients are college-aged and "failure to launch" gamers/2e gifted young adults. Boonie says it's been an interesting transition, and “it's felt like I've ‘grown up’ with the clients I've served.”

SHOW TOPICS

• How knowing your own archetypes can help uncover your authentic self
• Why it’s a struggle to be a twice-exceptional (2E) gifted person
• Your authentic self might be masked by a persona — and that’s OK!
• Being inspired by Catwoman and Saga
• What’s it like to be a performer and embrace that persona?
• “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson​

SHOW LINKS

• Organized Messes (Boonie’s coaching page)
• Sparkles Podcast (Boonie & Rachel’s podcast is now defunct, but a few Facebook videos remain)
• Internal Family Systems
• Poet Ai Ogawa
• Personality Hacker (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)

WHERE TO LISTEN

• Apple
• Spotify
• Amazon
• Google

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Beyond Artist's Block represents the opinions of its host and guests and is not meant as a substitute for therapy. It is for informational and educational purposes only. Please reach out to your healthcare provider with any specific questions you may have.