“I’ve taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed. It’s as though something in there is running all the time. And if it doesn’t get an outlet on the page, it comes out in the dreams.” Stephen King
"The thoughts are unstoppable - but so is the music. It comes to me constantly." Lady Gaga
"Sometimes those of us who are creatives have this greediness with ideas and I use the word greed purposely meaning we're indulging our ideas all the time. That is another form of nervous system dysregulation when you can't shut off your idea switch and just be in the present moment." Cathleen King, DPT
As a doctor of physical therapy, King teaches neuroscience principles, and is a mind-body practitioner.
Most of this Creative Mind Audio is a brief excerpt from her interview with two functional medicine doctors for their Health Babes Podcast.
The last few minutes are comments by Willow McIntosh about working with a busy creative mind as a highly sensitive person.
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video with Cathleen King - Healing the chaos in my nervous system
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Resources from Cathleen King:
Primal Trust Membership & Community - "Learn to consciously self-regulate your biology and heal."
How Healing Happens - free 127 page guide to brain retraining and nervous system somatic healing...Contains 5 self-regulation exercises."
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Health Babes Podcast #138 Somatic Healing & Nervous System Recovery with Dr. Cathleen King, hosted by Dr. Becky Campbell and Dr. Krystal Hohn.
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Willow McIntosh is the founder of Inluminance with programs for people with High Sensory Intelligence.
In this Creative Mind Audio, he comments that "Depth of processing is one of the abilities that we have [as a highly sensitive person], and that's something that can serve us and can also turn against us.
“We can turn it in on ourselves if we allow our thoughts and our minds to overprocess, and if we fall into self judgement and criticism, especially when our energy gets low...
“One of the reasons I'm passionate about this is because I have a really creative mind - my mind is incredibly busy."
His audio comments are from Highly Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast Episode 150: How To Manage Low Energy, Negative Thoughts, and Overprocessing.
Hear longer excerpt in post How to Manage Our Energy, Negative Thoughts, and Overprocessing as a Highly Sensitive Person.
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Photo at top: Stephen King and his dog Marlowe, by Jill Krementz in her book The Writer’s Desk. It is also used for King’s own book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.
Musician and actor Lady Gaga has been open about her struggles with mental health issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following her rape at age 19, depression, anxiety, and more.
She has talked about using prescription medicine because “I can’t control my thoughts at all." She has also said “A lot of people are afraid of medicine for their brains to help them. I really want to erase the stigma around this.”
In a 2020 interview with Oprah, she said medication "does not affect my creative process. I don't take anything that does." [But she has also talked about smoking, using cocaine, alcohol and other drugs which can and do affect our creative minds.]
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See more Substack posts and podcast episodes on emotional/mental health.
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How our greediness for creative ideas can support nervous system dysregulation