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
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
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
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
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
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