Version 5 Is Live: The White Paper That Started a Movement
Published: October 27th, 2025
By: Lisangelee Velázquez, M.S.
Founder of GiftedBecoming™
Author of The Overthinker’s Study Toolkit™
“Not all revolutions arrive dressed in traditional prose. Some arrive as sympathies translated into systems.”
Today, I’m proud (and shaking a little!) to announce that Version 5 of my white paper is officially live on OSF Preprints:
🔗 Read the latest version here
💡 What’s New in Version 5?
This isn’t just a revision—it’s a refinement of a movement. In this version, you’ll find:
The full emergence of The Law of Sustained Love™ and The Model of Blocked Becoming™
— a novel motivational concept proposing that admiration is a sustaining reinforcer that can power identity formation and authentic motivation across the lifespan. The Model of Blocked Becoming™ reveals how internalized pressure, unprocessed doubt, or misaligned expectations can silently disrupt growth—until we name the block and reclaim our path.A reframing of overthinking
— not as a flaw, but as high-potential metacognitive processing that can be harnessed through behavior-analytic and emotional tools.A cleaner glossary and updated academic framing
— making this version easier to navigate for scholars, practitioners, and neurodivergent readers alike.
🔎 Why This Paper Matters
If you’ve ever felt like your mind moves too fast, too deep, or too emotionally for the world around you—you are not alone. This framework was built for:
Gifted adults who underperform on standardized tests
Neurodivergent students with high potential and low support
Emotional learners who are told to “calm down” instead of being guided
The Behavioral Neurodivergent Learning Model™ (BNLM™) is my answer to those gaps. It is both personal and academic. Rigorous and revolutionary. And it all started with a single question:
What if overthinking isn’t a problem? What if it’s a superpower waiting to be redirected?
🧠 A Latina Theorist in a New Era
This update feels like a landmark. As a Latina scholar, Registered Behavior Technician (RBT), and future PhD candidate, I know what it means to feel invisible in both gifted and behavioral spaces.
Version 5 is proof: you don’t have to be perfect to be powerful. You just have to be persistent. The paper is live. The ideas are spreading. And we’re just getting started.
🔗 Read + Share + Engage
📰 Read the white paper:
https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/fskv2_v6
📘 Want to go deeper?
Check out my book The Overthinker’s Study Toolkit™ – will be available in print and eBook formats on November 4th, 2025.
📲 Follow @GiftedBecoming on Instagram and LinkedIn for daily insights, research updates, and behind-the-scenes breakthroughs.
🙌 Thank You
To those who’ve supported this journey—thank you. To those discovering it today—welcome. The world is changing, and we’re creating the blueprint together.
With love, clarity, and sustained momentum,
Lisangelee Velázquez, M.S.
Founder of GiftedBecoming™
Creator of the BNLM™, The Law of Sustained Love™, and The Model of Blocked Becoming™
