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Autism: Imagination, Attention and Other Assets for Creative People
Maja Toudal: "I remember kind of being told as a teenager when I was diagnosed that autistic people aren't that creative."
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The complex experience of ADHD adults with Linda Roggli
Listen now (10 mins) | "Owning an ADHD brain has its challenges — time blindness, trouble with initiation and completion, impatience, impulsivity. And…
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Negativity Bias can distort and deflate. How can we gain better emotional health?
Listen now | "We don’t pay attention to all events and our corresponding emotional reactions in the same way. One negative event can taint an overall…
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Free guides and programs from multiple psychologists and authors.
The list includes these items: The Emotional Life of Your Brain [video]; Grounding Skills for Anxiety, Stress and PTSD [course]; How Healing Happens…
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Perspectives on depression, distress, dysregulation, and how to gain more emotional health
A dysregulated nervous system can turn experiences into sources of stress and anxiety, and reduce our positive feelings. What can we do?
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How stories help us explore our Shadow Self and gain emotional health
Listen now | Jungian depth psychologist Melissa Kim Corter: "Fairy Tales allowed me to recognize patterns in my own life."
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9:20
Writing and Creativity and Our Subconscious
Being creative involves self-awareness and respecting who we really are, including our unconscious depths. "Stories allowed me to recognize patterns in…
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Going outside our comfort zone to be more creative
artists and therapists on embracing discomfort - “Being an artist is about living in the uncomfortable zone.” Dr Holtz | "There is discomfort from…
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Trauma, Emotions and Health - from an interview with Dr Cathleen King
Listen now | "Then I created a roadmap to guide me out of the dense fog of my illness and fear. I learned how to self-regulate my nervous system."
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How to nurture our process of trauma healing and post-traumatic growth
"Post-Traumatic Growth is a reminder that you have the capacity to rise again."
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Building A Satisfying Life in the Arts
You are called to a creative career. What are some challenges? Photo: Zoe Saldana on her acting career: "I didn’t want to dedicate my entire time to…
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How to understand and work with emotions so they benefit more than disrupt
Listen now | Probably all of us don't like certain kinds or levels of emotion, and want to get away from them, sometimes in self-destructive ways. But…
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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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