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In this conversation with Imi Lo on The Intense Mind, Chris Wells shares their journey of living and working with Kazimierz Dąbrowski’s theory of positive disintegration. Together they explore what it means to experience life with emotional intensity, how worldplay and inner conflict shaped Chris’s development, and why giftedness and neurodivergence can be both a challenge and a source of transformation.

Chris reflects on their personal evolution, their research and writing, and how Dąbrowski’s framework can help us reimagine suffering, authenticity, and growth. This is a thoughtful and deeply human dialogue about turning intensity into a compass for meaning.

It's also available as an episode of The Intense Mind on all major podcast platforms.

Stop Pathologizing Your Intensity - with Chris Wells, Imi Lo Episode notes: https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2025/08/19/chriswells/Eggshell Therapy and Coaching: eggshelltherapy.com/Imi Lo: imiloimilo.comSiste...

We’re excited to share that Chris Wells’s essay, “Disintegration as a Path to Meaning,” has been translated into Polish! 🇵🇱

This powerful piece explores how Dąbrowski’s theory offers a meaningful framework for navigating suffering, identity, and personal growth. We’re deeply grateful to Jacek Romański for translating the piece and making it accessible to a wider audience.

📖 Read the Polish translation here:
https://dezintegracja.pl/dezintegracja-jako-droga-do-sensu/

📖 Read the original in English:
https://positivedisintegration.substack.com/p/disintegration-as-a-path-to-meaning

Thank you, Jacek, for helping us bring this work to more people around the world. 💙

Dezintegracja jako droga do sensu - Dezintegracja Pozytywna Życie w zgodzie ze sobą, gdy świat się rozpada Autorka: Chris Wells Nosiłam w sobie ten tekst od miesięcy – nie dlatego, że nie wiedziałam, co chcę powiedzieć, lecz dlatego, że nie byłam pewna, czy jestem gotowa powiedzieć to tak publicznie i tak wprost. Pisanie z tej....

Disintegration isn’t only individual, it’s collective. And right now, it’s happening all around us.

In their new essay, Disintegration as a Path to Meaning: Living with Integrity While the World Falls Apart, Chris Wells explores how Kazimierz Dąbrowski’s theory of positive disintegration gives us a way to understand collapse as a potential turning point.

Drawing from lived experience, historical examples, and contemporary crises, this piece makes the case that we need more than resistance—we need vision, inner clarity, and moral growth.

🌀 Read the full piece here:
🔗 https://www.positivedisintegration.org/p/disintegration-as-a-path-to-meaning

🎧 Audio version available (26 min)

We are not the first to live through the disintegration of a world order. What comes next depends on whether we evolve—or let it break us. 🌎⚖️💫

Please share if this speaks to you. These are the conversations we need right now.

Disintegration as a Path to Meaning Living with Integrity While the World Falls Apart. As systems break down, we need tools for inner growth. This post reframes collapse as a moment for choosing who we’re becoming.

Chris was a guest on episode 277 of the Neurodiversity Podcast. ✨

When it comes to intensity, emotional depth, moral conviction, and sensitivity, we often get stuck in two extremes: ✨ "It’s a gift!" 🚫 "It’s a problem!" In this clip from Episode 277, Dr. Chris Wells reflects on how the Theory of Positive Disintegration can be used either as a meaningful framework or as a kind of spiritual bypass. The challenge? Holding space for complexity without romanticizing or pathologizing the experience. 🎧 Listen to Why Do We Still Debate Overexcitabilities? wherever you get your podcasts. #NeurodiversityPodcast #PositiveDisintegration #Overexcitabilities #EmotionalIntensity #NuancedConversations #NeurodivergentVoices #MentalHealthAwareness

Polyvagal Pathways to Connection: Part 1 Listen now (47 min) | In episode 77, Chris and Emma were joined by Autum Romano, an educator, bodyworker, and author from Colorado Springs, CO. This is the first in a two-part conversation exploring polyvagal theory and its relevance to personality development, healing, and human connection.

Gifted Adults Group Experience This six-week group coaching experience is open to all gifted and otherwise neurodivergent people.

Authenticity, Community, and Creative Unmasking Listen now (64 min) | In Episode 75, Chris and Emma were joined by Gordon Smith, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Coach, and Creative from Gifted and Growing in Asheville, NC. Together, they explore how community, creativity, and authenticity support the journey of positive disintegratio...

Live from Wisconsin, Part 1 Listen now (47 min) | Welcome to a very special episode of Positive Disintegration! For the first time ever, Chris and Emma sat down together in person to record—not virtually, not over Zoom or SquadCast, but face to face in the heart of Madison, Wisconsin. In this warm and unscripted special, we ...

We’re excited to release sessions from DC2024 this winter! ✨

Thank you to the Dabrowski Center for making this video available to watch!