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The Creative Mind series of sites.
Douglas Eby (M.A./Psychology) is author of The Creative Mind series of sites providing information and inspiration for exploring | The Creative Mind Newsletter site for more posts, podcast episodes: https://thecreativemind.substack.com/
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How to Help Recover From Trauma - A Blueprint for Healing
By Douglas Eby "You're not just getting by anymore. The work that you've done on your healing journey has created the possibility of transformation beyond what levels of health you've had in the past. “And this is your physical health, your mental health, emotional health. You are Empty Nest, Menopause, Autism - Challenges and growth, with psychotherapist Julie Bjelland
By Douglas Eby "In this episode, I take you on a deeply personal journey through some of the most challenging phases of my life. Julie Bjelland continues, "I open up about the experience of facing an empty nest, the physical and emotional upheaval brought on by menopause, and the p Healthy relationships and attachment styles with Aimie Apigian, MD
By Douglas Eby "Attachment is not just one’s relationship style, it was one’s survival style for the first few years of life. “These experiences influence our attachment styles—secure, anxious, avoidant, or disorganized—and shape our ability to form healthy relationships." Dr. Aimie Healthy relationships and attachment styles with Aimie Apigian, MD
By Douglas Eby "Attachment is not just one’s relationship style, it was one’s survival style for the first few years of life. “These experiences influence our attachment styles—secure, anxious, avoidant, or disorganized—and shape our ability to form healthy relationships." Dr. Aimie Creative and Gifted, With a Rainforest Mind - Insights of Psychotherapist Paula Prober
By Douglas Eby "I developed the analogy of the rainforest mind because I needed a way to explain giftedness to teachers and really anybody who wasn’t sure what does it mean. There are so many different definitions...some people think it’s achievement. Some people think it’s person The complex experience of 2E adults with ADHD with Linda Roggli
By Douglas Eby "Owning an ADHD brain has its challenges — time blindness, trouble with initiation and completion, impatience, impulsivity. And they are magnified with the ‘gift’ of 2e." Linda Roggli notes: "We become really obsessed with details. And that's ironic because ADHD is a Facing our Shadow for more creativity, authentic power and purpose
By Douglas Eby "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 Empowering conscious women (and men) to actualize their creative potential
By Douglas Eby "In spite of having so much 'power' in our lives, we both felt this very painful and confusing gap between the deeper potentials that we sensed for who we were as women..." Claire Zammit "I want you to liberate yourself from the idea that [your art] has to save the w Autistic Women: Perspectives by Hannah Gadsby, Kayla Crome, Daryl Hannah, Sue Ann Pien, Zhara Astra, Julie Bjelland
By Douglas Eby "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 things differently." Getting out of our heads, working with emotional intensity, and more with Christine Fonseca
By Douglas Eby "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." In a post of hers (Understanding Emotional Intensity), Christine Fonseca summarizes that "In Virtual communities that support creative, highly sensitive, gifted, neurodivergent people
By Douglas Eby How might participating in a community of others that share your unique personality and cognitive differences help enhance your personal growth and emotional health? Here are a few communities to consider : ~~~ People Who Get Me: A Gifted Neurodivergent Group Experienc How To Connect to Our Creativity with Tye Glover, an excerpt from The Perception Podcast
By Douglas Eby Tye Glover is an Ideation Coach, and Founder and President of Think Different Nation. This is an excerpt from his conversation with Caroline Partridge for her Perception Podcast. He comments: "We can't really recognize what else someone else is not seeing or seeing... Autism and Women - understanding and help, with Zhara Astra and Julie Bjelland
By Douglas Eby "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 dissected the meaning of life. I was extreme Thriving more as gifted or BIPOC - navigating cultural dynamics and conformity pressures
By Douglas Eby "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 or one dimensional trop How We Can Develop Healthier Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance and Confidence
By Douglas Eby Our self-concept, positive self-regard and resulting confidence, are key influences on how fully we realize our talents and live our lives. What can we do to nurture healthy levels of self-esteem, self-appreciation, self-compassion? Halle Berry, referring to being abu How to understand and heal from trauma - What is the freeze response?
By Douglas Eby "Have you ever frozen up in the face of what should otherwise be a nonthreatening situation?" That is one way to define the trauma response of freeze. In the first section of this podcast episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian , MD comments "when we bring in the right kinds of sup How to understand and work with emotions so they benefit more than disrupt
By Douglas Eby "As an actor I have a tendency to skitter along the top of emotional things. I'm Lutheran, I don't like being emotional." William H. Macy Probably all of us don't like certain kinds or levels of emotion, and want to get away from them, sometimes in self-destructive w How self-acceptance is a foundation for a healthy and creative life
By Douglas Eby 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 We need to deal with rejection, a constant part of a productive creative life
By Douglas Eby “You want to feel that you matter and that you count, and when you’re constantly being told ‘No no no’ and that your work isn’t speaking to anyone, or nothing you’re doing is making a difference to anyone, and you're not being chosen, it's hard to not personalize th Trauma and Fearing Unwanted Emotions and Thoughts with Dr Ronald Siegel
By Douglas Eby Dr. Siegel notes "All animals have an instinctual aversion to pain. "Humans have particularly sophisticated ways of trying to avoid it, especially when that pain is emotional or psychological. “We employ a wide variety of strategies to distract ourselves or actively p
