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How stories help us explore our Shadow Self and gain emotional health
Listen now | Jungian depth psychologist Melissa Kim Corter: "Fairy Tales allowed me to recognize patterns in my own life."
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Writing and Creativity and Our Subconscious
Being creative involves self-awareness and respecting who we really are, including our unconscious depths. "Stories allowed me to recognize patterns in…
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How to navigate sensory overload and trauma as a highly sensitive person
Listen now (24 mins) | "Our nervous system is picking up more information, receiving information that others don't, feeling things that others don't…
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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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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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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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21:57
Highly Sensitive, Neurodivergent and Misunderstood. How Can We Be Ourselves?
Listen now (12 mins) | Being a highly sensitive person, or neurodivergent in other ways, we may have grown up feeling misunderstood, and even like we…
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Intensity and Being A Creative Person
Intensity may often be part of the life of creative artists and high ability people, and accompany their trait of high sensitivity.
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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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3:10
How high sensitivity and autism overlap, plus some key differences
Listen now | "Although there may be some similarities between the sensory processing challenges experienced by highly sensitive individuals [HSPs] and…
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11:17
Artists and creative people are likely to be highly sensitive, or introverted, or both
Listen now | A number of actors, musicians, writers and other artists consider themselves introverted, shy or sensitive (not the sam experiences, but…
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15:41
Feeling flawed as a neurodivergent child or adult - What can change that?
Listen now | "It is hard to change that feeling flawed piece...it's so seeped into your bones because it's your inner child. It's stuff that you learned…
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