Emotional Health and Mental Wellbeing
A few selected posts
Do You Feel ‘Crazy’ Sometimes? You May Be Highly Sensitive.
Our personality trait of high sensitivity, or sensory processing sensitivity, provides many positive qualities, such as increased potentials for creativity and empathy – but can also lead to challenges like anxiety and overwhelm.
The photo is Emma Thompson as Divination Professor Sybill Trelawney in the Harry Potter movie series.
In an interview article, Thompson commented about her character that she was “Mad as a bucket of snakes.”
Costume designer Jany Temime agreed with the actress that Trelawney was mad but added, “She has a reason to be mad. She has trouble coping with her life, her job.” – From article: Behind the scenes: Professor Trelawney, Pottermore.com.
In real life, Thompson has talked about being affected throughout her life by depression – see my article Emma Thompson and Depression.
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There are many varieties of stress, fatigue, worry, trauma, unhealthy self-regard and other anxiety-related experiences that can impact our lives and creative expression.
Taking steps for self-care is important for anyone, but especially when you are highly sensitive or creative.
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Resources on How To Understand And Recover From Trauma
This page includes summits, books, courses and other material based on neuroscience research, body-based therapies, mindfulness and meditation, and other approaches to help regain health.
Most of us experience mental or emotional health challenges to some degree, and many people experience different kinds and levels of trauma, which often underlies and increases those challenges.
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How attachment styles and trauma impact our lives and relationships
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Adult Trauma – healing and recovery
“From our earliest years, we develop an attachment style that follows us through life.” Diane Poole Heller
“Trauma results in this belief that we are different, that we’re not enough.” Aimie Apigian, MD
I was in a personal relationship “with emotional abuse and psychological abuse.” Anna Kendrick
“Trauma and attachment…get in our way from really being the most we can be – the most expanded part of ourselves.”
Those are comments by Diane Poole Heller, a psychotherapist “specializing in trauma recovery and the healing of early attachment wounds, especially as they affect our adult relationships.”
Listen to her comments in podcast episode - in the article - link below.
Diane Poole Heller Ph.D. is “an internationally recognized speaker, author, and expert in the field of child and adult attachment theory as well as trauma resolution.”
The first part (about 2 min) of this audio is an intro for her online course Healing Your Attachment Wounds.
Publisher Sounds True summarizes her audio course:
“Why do we experience recurring struggles in our relationships? And why do traumatic events, such as a physical injury, emotional threat, loss of a loved one, or other life crisis, so often awaken or amplify our sense of fear, anger, isolation, or helplessness?”
Diane Poole Heller teaches:
“From our earliest years, we develop an attachment style that follows us through life, replaying in our intimate relationships, with our children, and at work. And traumatic events can deeply affect that core relational blueprint.”
See article with the transcript: How do trauma and attachment wounds affect our relationships?
See other episodes of The Creative Mind Audio Podcast.
See material about Adverse Childhood Experiences and more in article How attachment styles and trauma impact our lives and relationships.
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