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...

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...

"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...

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 ...

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...

"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...

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 ...

“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...

"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...

"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

“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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

"I do think that [my novel's heroine] Stella, deals with a lot of insecurity about herself because she's on the spectrum. And that's also something that I personally live with." Author Helen Hoang"Growing up in the 1990s...I operated on...

"Autism informs everything that I do - it's you know my processing unit so it's how the information goes in and out. So it's always informed me. Since being diagnosed, it's helped me understand that I'm not a rubbish person - I just think about...

"To get out of our heads and into our bodies a little more...I think gifted humans, neurodivergent humans and humans impacted by trauma...really have a hard time doing that."Christine Fonseca is "a licensed educational psychologist, cri...

"Growing up in the 1990s, I was different from other girls, but I certainly never considered I had autism."Zhara Astra continues, "Sure, I operated on a different wavelength: I gravitated towards philosophy and books that...

"I was also aware that I was not really allowed to be so gifted, that I threatened their self concepts. Which is to say that I wasn’t really encouraged or allowed to be my full self, but I was rather being asked to act as a kind of instrument o...