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short video: Brain Health to Transform Stress, Anxiety, and Toxic Thinking with Drew Ramsey, MD, plus other updates.
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Brain health and emotional wellbeing for better access to our creativity
“Creating art has always been a way to channel emotional intensity. But you don’t have to be in pain to do great work as an artist.”
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Working With Our Emotions To Be More Creative
Listen now (13 mins) | This audio is a "podcast conversation" generated by an AI program, based on text in my article How Working With Our Emotions…
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How to Thrive in a Chaotic World as a Highly Sensitive Person
Listen now | "The modern world is often overwhelming and stressful for those of us with sensitive nervous systems."
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How we can resist despair and keep creating even in turbulent times
Listen now (22 mins) | “This is precisely the time when artists go to work...We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."
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How we enhance or interfere with our authentic creative expression
Why do we choose a creative life? It isn't easy or calm, it can be often fraught with uncertainty, anxiety and self-criticism. But we create anyway.
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Highly Sensitive, Neurodivergent and Misunderstood. How Can We Be Ourselves?
Listen now (12 mins) | Being a highly sensitive person, or neurodivergent in other ways, we may have grown up feeling misunderstood, and even like we…
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How attachment trauma impacts our lives with Aimie Apigian, MD
“Trauma results in this belief that we are different, that we’re not enough..."
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How Working With Our Emotions Helps Us Be More Creative
Creative people experience a wide range and depth of intense emotions to create art. How do we work safely with those emotions?
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How to thrive in business as a multipotentialite with Emilie Wapnick
"For the independent, self-starter multipotentialite, creating your own business is often the best option."
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Artists on supporting their mental health with life choices and therapy
"Therapy is a powerful transformative journey that can take you from feeling unhappy and stuck to living with emotional freedom as a fulfilled creative…
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How neuroscience and psychology help understand creativity with Shelley Carson, PhD
Listen now | "The differences between the brains of highly effective creative achievers and the brains of the rest of us are far less important than the…
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Information and inspiration for creative, highly sensitive, high ability/gifted, perhaps neurodivergent, people: posts and podcast episodes with artists, psychologists, program authors, and more.
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