Sitemap - 2023 - The Creative Mind

How self-acceptance is a foundation for a healthy and creative life

We need to deal with rejection, a constant part of a productive creative life

Trauma and Fearing Unwanted Emotions and Thoughts with Dr Ronald Siegel

How trauma impacts our lives - Understanding the basics with therapist Britt Frank

Drugs, the genius myth, and being creative – James C. Kaufman on the research

Issa Rae: creating compelling stories from being introverted and awkward

Creating to channel emotional intensity - an interview with psychologist Cheryl Arutt

How Our Mental Wellness and Mental Health Are Affected by Creativity

Redeeming Our Inner Demons - an Interview with Psychologist Stephen Diamond

Margaret Atwood - "By writing, you are following a very long tradition."

Salman Rushdie on why we need stories to understand ourselves

Why Relationships Can Be Challenging, Especially as a Highly Sensitive Person

Amy Tan on Writing and Depression, and Using What is Beyond Our Ordinary Senses

How meditation and mindfulness support creativity - excerpt of interview with musician David Nichtern

Neurodivergence, giftedness, sensitivities - excerpt from interview with Nicole A. Tetreault by Imi Lo

Mental health and emotional wellbeing involves more than our brain

"Attached to my mental health diagnosis" - excerpt of interview with author Sarah Fay

How Online Improv Helps Gifted/2e People - Julie Skolnick interviews Gordon Smith

Do Artists Have Unique Brains?

Strategies to Reduce Anxiety for Highly Sensitive People

Positive Creative Obsessions

Trusting your author voice - Christine Kloser interviews Ulcca Joshi Hansen

Overcome burnout and overwhelm to improve creativity, health and performance

Can napping support productivity, energy, brain health, wellbeing and creativity?

How to Lower Your Anxiety With High Sensitivity Therapist Julie Bjelland

Why artists may practice meditation and find it valuable for creativity

Do we really need our emotions, even the 'negative' ones?

How our high sensitivity may be our biggest professional strength

How turmoil and trauma affects our lives as writers and other artists

Managing Our Anxiety To Live Better and Be More Creative

Fears, Unconscious Fears, And Being More Creative

Writing And Our Subconscious

Embracing Our Emotions with Ziva Meditation founder Emily Fletcher and actor Travis Van Winkle

Multitalented artists: Actor/Writers - David Thewlis

It takes more than just passion to drive our talents and creativity

My hunger to write continues

Inner Child Work for personal growth and transformation with Julie Aird

Our Childhood And Being A Creative Person

How attachment styles and trauma impact our relationships - with Dr Diane Poole Heller

ADHD Productivity - from an Embracing Intensity podcast with Arianna Bradford

How to more fully realize your strengths and gifts as a Highly Sensitive Person

Exploring our Shadow Self with Caroline Myss

How Artists Stay Connected With Themselves to be More Creative

How Creative Expression Helps Nurture Spiritual Meaning

Keep the Channel Open To Be Creative

Dealing with stress and overwhelm to keep on being creative

Interview excerpt: Jenn Granneman of "Introvert, Dear"

Sharing information about sensitivity to help people - Jenn Granneman

“Dare to Disappoint” - an interview with Sandra Tsing Loh

Blooming or Wilting as a Sensitive, Creative Person

Actors and Other Artists and Insecurity

How artists can be challenged by addiction and recover

Dealing With Our Anxieties and Stress To Be More Creative

Emotional Health, Neuroscience and Creative People

What is Joy for a highly sensitive or high sensory person?

How to deal with toxic relationships, especially as a highly sensitive person

How important is joy for our creative lives?

Building A Satisfying Life in the Arts

Susan Perry on getting into a creative place and daring to write fiction

Living Better With Sensory Overload as a Creative and Sensitive Person

Elizabeth Gilbert on fear and being creative

Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice for Writers

What are some challenges of being very smart and creative?

Creative people are often highly sensitive, introverted, even shy

How to understand ourselves as a Highly Sensitive Person with counselor Jacquelyn Strickland

Embrace and Reparent Our Sensitive Inner Child

How can Internal Family Systems therapy help our emotional health and creativity?

Trusting and Feeling Compassion for Our Creative Self

Resource pages

Getting out of the comparison trap

Being Creative and Introverted, Shy or Highly Sensitive in the Arts

Articles and resources for actors and performers

It’s About More Than Performing

How Trauma and stress impact our immune system and mental health

Emotional Health and Mental Wellbeing

Our emotional and cognitive brain and being a highly sensitive person

Developing confidence as an artist

Elizabeth Gilbert on Self Acceptance – “I’ve been a student of it my whole life.”

How mental health symptoms can be reframed as positive

How does confidence affect our lives and how can we feel it more?

How to Overcome Creative Blocks and Reignite Your Creative Spark with Nicola Newman

How mental health symptoms can be reframed as positive - Chris Wells on Overexcitability

"Sensitivity is a beautiful thing." Alanis Morissette on being a highly sensitive person

How Understanding Our Self-Value as a Highly Sensitive Person Helps Us Live More Fully

How to manage emotional exhaustion and burnout with Zarya Rubin MD

You were an exceptional kid. Are you still gifted as an adult?

A growing mental health crisis for girls, with Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Perfectionism can get in our way as gifted, creative and highly sensitive people

Improving Mental Health and Saving Lives of Highly Sensitive People

How decluttering Marie Kondo style can help our intense mind with Nadja Cereghetti

Benefits and Limitations for Being Evaluated as a Gifted or Twice Exceptional Adult

How artists thrive with challenges of a career - Zoe Kazan on acting