Creative Mind Audio
For artists and creative people in general. Brief excerpts of interviews with artists, psychologists, and others on emotional health, personality, high sensitivity, giftedness, neurodivergence, and more topics. See my main podcast page on Substack thecreativemind.substack.com/podcast - where you can also see posts and subscribe. By Douglas Eby.
Episodes
119 episodes
How to navigate sensory overload and trauma as a highly sensitive person
Empaths and highly sensitive people "aren't just open to trauma. They're open to everything, and it can feel traumatic when you're young and don't have any guidance." - Dr. Judith Orloff"Our nervous system is picking up more info...
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How to Understand and Recover from Narcissistic and Toxic Family Dynamics
Meg Haworth, PhD recalls, "I grew up with a narcissistic parent in a toxic family system, and I also had all kinds of abuse growing up and spent a lot of time in my childhood being very sick."This audio is an excerpt from a longer inter...
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Adverse Childhood Experiences and creativity - A Notebook AI Podcast
Most of us have a wide variety of emotional experiences as a child and teen, and as as adults, of course. These may include relatively minor and temporary hurts, but also abuse, even trauma. And these experiences can endure, esp...
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Working With Our Emotions To Be More Creative
This audio is a "podcast conversation" generated by AI program Notebook, based on text in my article How Working With Our Emotions Helps Us Be More Creative<...
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How to Thrive in a Chaotic World as a Highly Sensitive Person
How to Thrive in a Chaotic World as a Highly Sensitive PersonFrom a free class by Therapist Julie Bjelland"The modern world is often overwhelming and stressful for those of us with sensitive nervous systems."High Sensitivity...
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How we can resist despair and keep creating even in turbulent times
Excerpt from the longer Creative Mind Audio episode How we can resist despair and keep creating even in turbulent times - “This is precisely the ti...
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Highly Sensitive, Neurodivergent and Misunderstood.
Being a highly sensitive person, or neurodivergent in other ways, we may have grown up feeling misunderstood, and even like we were flawed.The first section of this audio is an excerpt from a related podcast episode with Julie Bje...
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Creativity, Mental Health and Recovery with Sarah Fay
"I received six diagnoses and my first one came when I was was 12 and a lot of [my memoir] Pathological is about that."Author Sarah Fay adds, "I think this is is something we're seeing now with young people on TikTok and Instagram - sel...
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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."Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist and speaker. This audio is from her video interview for the Anxiety ...
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How trauma drives anxiety and how to better regulate our system with psychologist Cheryl Arutt
Dr. Cheryl Arutt is a trauma-informed Clinical & Forensic Psychologist, Certified EMDR therapist, and specializes in trauma recovery and creative artist issues.“Many people in my practice are actors and performers and people w...
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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."Dr. Natasha Fallahi, a mind-body health expert, functional medicine practitioner, kno...
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How high sensitivity and autism overlap, plus some key differences
Transpersonal Coach and Trainer Jules De Vitto, MAEd, MSc, comments "Although there may be some similarities between the sensory processing challenges experienced by highly sensitive individuals [HSPs] and those with autism, there are some key ...
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Artists and creative people are likely to be highly sensitive, or introverted, or both
“I always felt awkward and shy.” Steven Spielberg“I wouldn’t say I have much of an outgoing personality." Idris Elba“I’m very sensitive in real life.” Jessica ChastainListen to comments by artists, psychologists and othe...
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Getting past feeling flawed to being authentic and connecting better with others
"It is hard to change that feeling flawed piece...it's so seeped into your bones." Julie Bjelland“Trauma results in this belief that we are different, that we’re not enough, that there’s something about us that pushes people away or tha...
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Feeling flawed as a neurodivergent child or adult - What can change that?
"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 with a child's brain."⏩ From Episode 195 Feeling Flawed of the
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How our greediness for creative ideas can support nervous system dysregulation
“I’ve taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed. It’s as though something in there is running all the time. And if it doesn’t get an...
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Embracing neurodivergent people as positive and valuable in a workplace
"Have you heard the statistic that neurodiverse employees are 90 to 140% more productive than non-neurodiverse? Isn't that amazing?" Therapist Julie Bjelland, LMFT from "Episode 192- Embracing Neurodiversity with Julie and Willow" of he...
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How a wearable device can reduce stress, improve sleep and more
A number of wearable devices can help improve our physical and emotional health. In this audio, several people talk about the Apollo Neuro device, starting with Psychotherapist Julie Bjelland. She comments that highly sensitive people h...
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Highly sensitive and autistic women - Often a hidden world.
Therapist Julie Bjelland says "the reason we call it hidden is because many of the things that we experience as autistic women are in fact things that are internal, that are not actually seen by other people. "So I want to share some of...
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Gifted and Neurodivergent - How does our brainmind work differently?
The first part of this episode is an excerpt from a Neurocuriosity Club Podcast episode:Megan Griffith asks her guest Jennifer Harvey Sallin "What do we need to know as gifted adults trying to navigate the world? I know there's not one piec...
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