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Enjoy this episode? 💬 Leave Comment or Voice Comment “Highly Sensitive People have particular brain differences that make us more susceptible to high stress, overwhelm and even anxiety. “Thankfully there is a way to train your HSP brain so you can live your fullest life.” Sensitivity expert Julie Bjelland , LMFT adds, “What’s important to understand is…think of it as having two parts of your brai...

This is a short excerpt from a free video: Why Your “Survival Brain” Knows How to Face Trauma and Heal . [Follow link to register and listen to the full video.] Producer Sounds True summarizes: "In this free video session, you'll learn about: * A Closer Look at the “Fight-Flight-Freeze” Response - Why animals in the wild experience traumatic events all the time...     * “Ignore the Stres...

Halle Berry comments about her movie ‘Bruised' and how it relates to abuse and trauma: "It viscerally impacts me. I’ve seen this. I grew up with a very abusive father who was alcoholic, very much like our Desi character. I know that man. That could have been my father or my uncles. "But what I also know about these people is they’re not bad people. They’re good people with bad probl...

Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein is a clinical psychologist, and an expert in the treatment of trauma. This is a brief excerpt from an hour long podcast interview with Tami Simon, founder of Sounds True. Dr. Rutstein talks about how being in a "state" impacts creative thinking and emotional health and life in general. Hear the full interview and see excerpt videos from his free 5-video series “for t...

When you follow your passions into an arts career, you can find many creative and emotional satisfactions, even financial rewards, but artists also experience unique challenges and pressures. “Actresses are made to feel entirely dependent in order to do the work they love.” Actor, Director Olivia Wilde “I slowly started to fall into pressure, but I wasn’t living my most authentic self.” Transgende...

Melora Hardin has wide-ranging passions as an artist, including acting, directing, dancing, writing and singing. She says of her multiple talents: “I’m always very very keen to keep my eyes and heart and ears open to opportunities to be creative. “That’s really my reason for being on this Earth, is to find more and more opportunities to be creative, and as long as I’m looking for those, and walkin...

“Creating art has always been a way to channel emotional intensity…” Psychologist Cheryl Arutt Dr. Arutt thinks that actors and other artists who are willing, in their creative work, to delve into the really “messy” feelings of being human (shame, devastations, disappointments, betrayals, traumas and more), probably have a relationship with those feelings. But, as she notes on her site, “You don’t...

"Imagine there is a motor inside you. Most people whose motor is too fast experience feelings of anxiety." - Sensitivity expert Julie Bjelland . She comments more about our sensitive nervous system: "So we have more activation in the brain mirror neuron system...we literally fire some of the same neurons as someone that we're watching and observing. So that's why have mome...

Listen to full-length interview, plus see videos and much more, in article Shelley Carson on enhancing our creative brain . > NOTE: this is a Private article for subscribers - follow link to learn more about memberships. Support the show View selected episodes and articles with more resources: The Creative Mind Audio Podcast page on the main site. This is a public episode. If you'd like to disc...

"So many gifted HSP healers are struggling financially and yet the potential for financial freedom in a heart-centered online business is big right now. "I want to teach you what I did and provide you resources that can help you grow a business that you love, that helps people, and that gives you financial freedom." - Sensitivity expert and entrepreneur Julie Bjelland Register free...

Our self-concept, positive self-regard and simply confidence, are key influences on how fully we realize our talents and live our lives. What can we do to nurture healthy self-esteem, self-appreciation, self-compassion? Therapist, author and speaker Marisa Peer finds “One of the biggest and most common issues people face is the belief that they are not enough.” Many creative people - even highly a...