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 outlet on the page, it comes out in the dreams.” Stephen King

"The thoughts are unstoppable - but so is the music. It comes to me constantly." Lady Gaga

"Sometimes those of us who are creatives have this greediness with ideas and I use the word greed purposely meaning we're indulging our ideas all the time. That is another form of nervous system dysregulation when you can't shut off your idea switch and just be in the present moment." Cathleen King, DPT

As a doctor of physical therapy, King teaches neuroscience principles, and is a mind-body practitioner.

Most of this Creative Mind Audio is a brief excerpt from her interview with two functional medicine doctors for their Health Babes Podcast.

The last few minutes are comments by Willow McIntosh about working with a busy creative mind as a highly sensitive person.

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Resources from Cathleen King:

Primal Trust Membership & Community - "Learn to consciously self-regulate your biology and heal."

How Healing Happens - free 127 page guide to brain retraining and nervous system somatic healing...Contains 5 self-regulation exercises."

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Health Babes Podcast #138 Somatic Healing & Nervous System Recovery with Dr. Cathleen King, hosted by Dr. Becky Campbell and Dr. Krystal Hohn.

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Willow McIntosh, founder of Inluminance with programs for people with High Sensory Intelligence, comments that "Depth of processing is one of the abilities that we have [as a highly sensitive person], and that's something that can serve us and can also turn against us.

“We can turn it in on ourselves if we allow our thoughts and our minds to overprocess, and if we fall into self judgement and criticism, especially when our energy gets low... One of the reasons I'm passionate about this is because I have a really creative mind - my mind is incredibly busy."

His audio comments are from Highly Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast Episode 150: How To Manage Low Energy, Negative Thoughts, and Overprocessing.

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See more Substack posts and podcast episodes on emotional/mental health.

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