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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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Douglas Eby
Working With Our Emotions To Be More Creative
Listen now (13 mins) | This audio is a "podcast conversation" generated by an AI program, based on text in my article How Working With Our Emotions…
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Douglas Eby
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How to Thrive in a Chaotic World as a Highly Sensitive Person
Listen now | "The modern world is often overwhelming and stressful for those of us with sensitive nervous systems."
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Douglas Eby
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How we can resist despair and keep creating even in turbulent times
Listen now (22 mins) | “This is precisely the time when artists go to work...We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."
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Douglas Eby
21:57
How we enhance or interfere with our authentic creative expression
Why do we choose a creative life? It isn't easy or calm, it can be often fraught with uncertainty, anxiety and self-criticism. But we create anyway.
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Douglas Eby
How attachment trauma impacts our lives with Aimie Apigian, MD
“Trauma results in this belief that we are different, that we’re not enough..."
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Douglas Eby
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How Working With Our Emotions Helps Us Be More Creative
Creative people experience a wide range and depth of intense emotions to create art. How do we work safely with those emotions?
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Douglas Eby
Artists on supporting their mental health with life choices and therapy
"Therapy is a powerful transformative journey that can take you from feeling unhappy and stuck to living with emotional freedom as a fulfilled creative…
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Douglas Eby
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How neuroscience and psychology help understand creativity with Shelley Carson, PhD
Listen now | "The differences between the brains of highly effective creative achievers and the brains of the rest of us are far less important than the…
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Douglas Eby
23:49
Bullying and other trauma can deeply impact us. How can we recover?
“What seems to be most important is the repetitive nature of bullying and cyberbullying because it disrupts trust in oneself, others, and the world."
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Douglas Eby
Empowering conscious women (and men) to actualize their creative potential
Insights from Dr. Claire Zammit and Elizabeth Gilbert
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Douglas Eby
Creativity and Mental Health and Recovery - excerpt from interview with Sarah Fay
Listen now | "My experience taught me to associate emotions like anxiety with pathologies and diagnoses like Generalized Anxiety Disorder."
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Douglas Eby
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