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How to Recover and Rewire to be More Resilient With Mind Fitness Training
Listen now | “When we're regulated, we're more likely to find agency and access choice in every situation, no matter how challenging, stressful, or…
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma affect our lives and creativity
Emotionally challenging, traumatic, or toxic relationship experiences in early life (and as adults, of course) can deeply impact our lives and access to…
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Embracing neurodivergent people as positive and valuable in a workplace
Listen now | Embracing neurodivergent people as positive and valuable in a workplace. Is self-diagnosis helpful? How are organizations supporting…
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Embracing neurodivergent people as positive and valuable in a workplace
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Creating to channel emotional intensity - an interview with psychologist Cheryl Arutt
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How neuroscience and psychology help understand creativity with Shelley Carson, PhD
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Redeeming Our Inner Demons - an Interview with Psychologist Stephen Diamond
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How we can resist despair and keep creating even in turbulent times
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma affect our lives and creativity
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17:04
How to Recover and Rewire to be More Resilient With Mind Fitness Training
Listen now | “When we're regulated, we're more likely to find agency and access choice in every situation, no matter how challenging, stressful, or…
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma affect our lives and creativity
Emotionally challenging, traumatic, or toxic relationship experiences in early life (and as adults, of course) can deeply impact our lives and access to…
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How Does Motherhood (or Not) Affect Your Creative Life?
“The motherhood thing – I think of it like a marathon, except a marathon is over in a day.” Filmmaker Caren McCaleb.
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Living As A Highly Sensitive Man: Redefining Masculinity And Resilience
"I want to live in a world where men feel safe to be tender, thoughtful, and emotionally attuned."
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Sensory Overload can lead to anxiety, fatigue. How to renew energy and calm?
Listen now | As various researchers and therapists note, being a highly sensitive person or another form of neurodivergent, we can experience many…
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How to navigate sensory overload and trauma as a highly sensitive person
Listen now (24 mins) | "Our nervous system is picking up more information, receiving information that others don't, feeling things that others don't…
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The Creative Mind
The Creative Mind
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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Gifted Professionals and Communicators
Gifted Professionals and Communicators
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Sparkle on Substack
Sparkle on Substack
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Gifted Through the Lifespan
Gifted Through the Lifespan
Deborah Ruf
Lindsey Mack's Substack
Lindsey Mack's Substack
Lindsey Mackereth
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The Big Picture
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