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Overcoming Adverse Childhood Experiences with Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES): "That dysfunction can give us the message that I am not okay."
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Douglas Eby
16:18
How trauma drives anxiety and how to better regulate our system with psychologist Cheryl Arutt
Listen now | "A lot of times people will think that when they achieve a certain level of success, they'll feel like, Now I'll feel whole, I'll feel…
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Douglas Eby
18:57
How to feel safe in stress and trauma healing, and the Cell Danger Response
"When cells sense danger, they prioritize survival over normal functions like growth and repair...This underscores the interconnectedness of our…
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Douglas Eby
Highly sensitive people can be more prone to stress and trauma
"Sensitive people are more prone to stress because we are picking up so much more information from the internal and external environment."
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Douglas Eby
3:10
Writers and other artists: endurability and tenacity, not just talent
“The decisive factor is the ability to deal effectively with uncertainty, rejection, and disappointment, from within as well as from without.”
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Douglas Eby
How Can Creative and Sensitive People Better Manage Stress and Anxiety?
How to Change Stressful Perceptions and Reactions. "Most people whose motor is too fast experience feelings of anxiety.”
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Douglas Eby
Highly Sensitive, Intense, Ultra-aware and Gifted – Not Disordered
Being intense and highly sensitive are common experiences for many, if not most, creative and gifted people, but these qualities can sometimes be…
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Emotional Armor Can Feel Safer But Also Keep Us Away From Our Creativity
“In order to make it as a creative or performer, you may have found it necessary to hide behind an emotional armor to protect yourself."
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Douglas Eby
Getting past feeling flawed to being authentic and connecting better with others
Listen now | "It is hard to change that feeling flawed piece...it's so seeped into your bones." | “Trauma results in this belief that we are different…
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Douglas Eby
9:18
How Codependency Can Affect Our Creative Pursuits, Authentic Expression and Self-Discovery
"Codependency can infiltrate your creative journey."
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Douglas Eby
How psychotherapy can benefit actors and other artists
A number of artists talk about what they get out of therapy; psychotherapists comment on how it can help access creativity.
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Douglas Eby
Our connections with nature and others are an important part of who we are
"There's almost something in the exploration and in the interconnection...a way into understanding different parts of ourselves."
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Douglas Eby
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