Creative Mind Audio

"Then I created a roadmap to guide me out of the dense fog of my illness and fear. I learned how to self-regulate my nervous system." Cathleen King , DPT, is a "doctor of physical therapy who teaches neuroscience principles, and is a mind-body practitioner." This audio is an excerpt from her conversation at the 2025 Trauma Super Conference, titled "Trauma, Emotional Processing, and Physical Health...

Probably all of us don't like certain kinds or levels of emotion, and want to get away from them, sometimes in self-destructive ways. Psychologist Cheryl Arutt notes "Creative people do tend to be highly sensitive and an exquisite sensitivity is an asset when it comes to creating art...but that same sensitivity can often make the painful experiences that they have even more so." Neuroscientist Lis...

Self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-regard, healthy self-esteem... how do these impact us, including being creative? In this episode, a number of artists and psychologists talk about their perspectives and some of the research. Actor Michelle Rodriguez said, “I don’t think it’s narcissistic at all to love yourself and believe in yourself. I think some people are really scared to do that. “I hav...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecreativemind.substack.com "One of the most challenging parts of the critic in the Shadow is the inner critic. “When your inner critic has completely taken over, and you don't have the clarity to trust yourself, this becomes a significant spiritual crisis." Caroline Myss (from her video on The Critic below). (Photo: Rachel Weisz as tw...

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." The image above is from one of her articles. She notes: “As women entrepreneurs, we already face the many challenges of running a business—balancing strategy, execution, sales, marketing, accounting, and le...

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, especially when not addressed or healed, deeply impacting our lives and access to our creativity. This audio is an AI-generated "podcast" with the "speakers" doing a great job...

"It is hard to change that feeling flawed piece...it's so seeped into your bones." Julie Bjelland , LMFT “Trauma results in this belief that we are different, that we’re not enough…” Aimie Apigian , MD “We often see that the pain cycle is ultimately cross wired with some type of underlying core belief such as “I’m not okay, I’m not good enough…" Cathleen King , DPT “Your own self doubt can cause t...

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 . Excerpts of longer comments in the article: "I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!” Gloria Reuben Psychologist Cheryl Arutt notes “Creating art has...

"The modern world is often overwhelming and stressful for those of us with sensitive nervous systems." High Sensitivity therapist Julie Bjelland , LMFT adds, "Many of us have suffered from the challenges of high stress, anxiety, sensory overload, and mental health and physical health issues. "Fortunately, after years of working with and researching Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), I have developed...

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 Bjelland and Willow McIntosh, followed by comments by Dr. Aimie Apigian on how trauma relates to these feelings. Hear the full podcast episode "The Pain of Being Misunderst...

Dr Aimie talks about “the effects of trauma on the fear of being seen for who we truly are, the fear of truly being known. “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 that we’re too much for other people. “And so if they were to truly know us – all parts of us – then they would leave us, then they would kic...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecreativemind.substack.com In the photo: Jameela Jamil : What do I do to manage my mental health? So I've had therapy. I had EMDR therapy. That's eye movement desensitization reprocessing therapy. I also have unfollowed anyone who triggers me on social media. So if that's someone who makes me think too much about food or think too muc...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecreativemind.substack.com "The differences between the brains of highly effective creative achievers and the brains of the rest of us are far less important than the commonalities." Shelley Carson continues in her book Your Creative Brain: "There are certainly genetic differences that influence creativity, and of course, there will a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecreativemind.substack.com Author Sarah Fay recalls: "I received six diagnoses and my first one came when I was was 12 and a lot of [my memoir] Pathological is about that. "I think this is is something we're seeing now with young people on TikTok and Instagram - self-diagnosing but also receiving diagnoses. "My experience taught me to...

“We’re the general contractors of our health, and there’s so many micro-changes we can make towards flourishing.” - Donna Jackson Nakazawa   This audio is a brief excerpt of her interview video at the Reset Super Conference titled Trauma and immune responses in the brain . The Conference site summarizes some main points, and gives a profile: * How chronic stress impacts our immune system * The tie...

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 and video are from her interview for the 2024 Anxiety Super Conference, titled: "Overcoming Adverse Childhood Experiences." She comments about some early experiences so many of us have: "Because of that household...

"Many people in my practice are actors and performers and people who have a platform.” Dr. Cheryl Arutt is a trauma-informed Clinical & Forensic Psychologist, Certified EMDR therapist, and specializes in trauma recovery and creative artist issues. She finds, “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 okay,...

"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, known as “The Sensitive Doctor,” says trauma arises from overwhelm in situations when we can’t fully process and integrate our experiences. Publisher The Shift Network writes abo...

"Both groups of people tend to get overwhelmed by environmental stimuli." Jules De Vitto adds in a post that although both highly sensitive people (HSPs) and those with autism "may have sensory processing challenges, there are some key differences between the two conditions." In this brief excerpt from her related podcast episode, she speaks with Robert Siegers, exploring this topic of High Sensit...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecreativemind.substack.com “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 Chastain This is an audio version of one of my articles on Medium, with comments by artists, psychologists and others about high sensitivity, as wel...

"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 HSP and Neurodivergent Podcast . From the original Show Notes: "In this conversation, Julie Bjelland and Willow McIntosh discuss the importance of accepting and embracing sensitivity and neurodiv...

» From the podcast: Cathleen King , DPT: “Sometimes those of us who are creatives, we have this greediness with ideas…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.” Willow McIntosh . "Depth of processing is one of the abilities that we have, and that's something that can serve...

Julie Bjelland is a psychotherapist specializing in high sensitivity, and author of many resources to help highly sensitive people (HSPs) worldwide. In this excerpt of one of her podcast episodes, she is joined by Willow McIntosh, the founder of Inluminance and leader of the High Sensory Intelligence movement. In her Show Notes, Julie Bjelland writes: The human mind is wired to look out for us whi...

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 , LMFT. She comments that highly sensitive people have a "unique and deep sensitivity to our surroundings and emotions, which grants us numerous strengths, including heightened empathy and creativity. "Howeve...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecreativemind.substack.com 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 piece of advice that's going to be a one size fits all." Jennifer Harve...