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How Does Motherhood (or Not) Affect Your Creative Life?
“The motherhood thing – I think of it like a marathon, except a marathon is over in a day.” Filmmaker Caren McCaleb.
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Sensory Overload can lead to anxiety, fatigue. How to renew energy and calm?
Listen now | As various researchers and therapists note, being a highly sensitive person or another form of neurodivergent, we can experience many…
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Self-compassion Enables Emotional Health And Motivates Better Than Self-criticism
"Self-compassion is a powerful resource for enhancing emotional well-being." "Self-acceptance is one of the greatest foundations of feeling joyful".
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Mental health and emotional wellbeing involves more than our brain
A HeartMath article notes: “We now know that the heart plays a key role in our emotional and mental health."
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How even brief moments can foster our well-being
“Physical and emotional health and well-being are possible when your nervous system is anchored in regulation."
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What is being dysregulated, and how can we better process our emotions?
Listen now | "If emotions are getting in the way of living your life, you can learn how to slow down, think clearly..." | “One form of dysregulation is…
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Judith Orloff, MD on Transforming Strong Emotions
"We're faced with so much in our world today. We're faced with so much in our personal lives. How do we deal with these bigger energies?"
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10:26
Dysregulation and How to Improve Emotional Resilience with Psychologist Melanie Joy
Psychologist Melanie Joy notes this is an incredibly dysregulating time for everyone, especially those of us who are highly sensitive.
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Expressive writing helps to explore our personal history and heal
Donna Jackson Nakazawa and Mark Matousek on recovering emotional health. "Your brain has an incredible ability to rewire old thoughts and emotions, and…
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How trauma impacts our lives, with therapist Britt Frank
Listen now | Britt Frank notes "trauma is anything that's too much, too fast, too soon, or that is not enough."
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"Everything sucks is an incredibly powerful story; it just happens to not be true."
Author John Green: "I keep learning again and again that hope is the right response to the human condition."
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How We Can Change Our “What If” Kind of Anxiety and Worry
Therapist Emma McAdam on working with our anxious brain. "When you avoid something, it makes your anxiety go up."
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