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How to navigate sensory overload and trauma as a highly sensitive person
Some perspectives of trauma recovery physician Aimie Apigian and empathic psychiatrist Judith Orloff
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Douglas Eby
24:14
"Life takes us on an unexpected ride... with anxiety."
"Sometimes life takes us on an unexpected ride...accompanied by a lot of anxiety."
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Recent posts and videos
Enjoy multiple Creative Mind videos and Substack posts.
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How to Understand and Recover from Narcissistic and Toxic Family Dynamics
Listen now (8 mins) | Meg Haworth, PhD recalls, "I grew up with a narcissistic parent in a toxic family system, and also had all kinds of abuse growing…
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Douglas Eby
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How psychotherapy can benefit actors and other artists
A number of artists talk about what they get out of therapy; psychotherapists comment on how it can help access creativity.
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The complex experience of 2E adults with ADHD 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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Can our neurodivergent brains come with mental illness? Damn straight.
As multiple psychologists and writers note, those of us who are neurocomplex and neurodivergent people can also be more vulnerable to emotional or…
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Adverse Childhood Experiences and creativity - A Notebook AI Podcast
Listen now | Emotional experiences as a child and teen, and as as adults, of course, can endure, especially when not addressed or healed, deeply…
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December 2024

Getting past feeling flawed to being authentic and connecting better with others
Listen now | "It is hard to change that feeling flawed piece...it's so seeped into your bones." | “Trauma results in this belief that we are different…
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma affect our lives and creativity
Emotionally challenging or traumatic experiences in early life (and as adults, of course) can deeply impact our lives and access to our creativity.
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How Can Creative and Sensitive People Better Manage Stress and Anxiety?
How to Change Stressful Perceptions and Reactions. "Most people whose motor is too fast experience feelings of anxiety.”
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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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