Creative Mind Audio
For artists and creative people in general. Brief excerpts of interviews with artists, psychologists, and others on emotional health, personality, high sensitivity, giftedness, neurodivergence, and more topics. See my main podcast page on Substack thecreativemind.substack.com/podcast - where you can also see posts and subscribe. By Douglas Eby.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 23
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Releasing Emotional Blocks - from an interview with Amy B. Scher
"When we are storing these emotions in our body and they become stuck, they are preventing us from having the clear, clean, energetic flow through our muscles, glands and organs that we should.
"I be…
Polyvagal Theory, Therapy, Trauma Recovery with Dr. Cheryl Arutt
Psychologist Cheryl Arutt found with her therapy clients that "Creative artists, actors and writers and people who do performances, had a different relationship with their trauma than regular people …
How to Recover and Rewire to be More Resilient
"Wild animals go through traumatic events all the time but they don't [usually] develop PTSD.
Elizabeth Stanley, PhD adds, "Each time through this cycle [trauma and recovery] they add to their toolbox…
How Narcissistic Parenting and Toxic Relationships Impact Us
“I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself.” Anna Kendrick
"Was I raised so that I was always trying to win their love?" Judith Orloff
"HSPs tend to be over-…
Sensory Overload can lead to anxiety, fatigue. How to renew energy and calm?
As various researchers and therapists note, being a highly sensitive person or another form of neurodivergent, with different "neurological wiring," we can experience many positive qualities, such a …
What is being dysregulated, and how can we better process our emotions?
Therapists provide insights and strategies
Psychologist Melanie Joy notes "this is an incredibly dysregulating time for everyone, especially those of us who are highly sensitive."
Therapist Emma McAdam…
Dysregulation and How to Improve Emotional Resilience with Psychologist Melanie Joy
Psychologist Melanie Joy notes this is an incredibly dysregulating time for everyone, especially those of us who are highly sensitive.
This is an excerpt from her conversation with Andrea Weber for th…
How stories help us see our inner patterns and gain emotional health
Fairy Tales & Jungian Shadow Work
"Many of us are gifted with the ability to hold the darkness of others but we don't always know how to uncover it within ourselves."
This Creative Mind Audio is an exc…
Trauma, Emotions and Health - from an interview with Dr Cathleen King
"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."
Dr Cathleen King, DPT, is a "doctor of physical therapy who teache…
How to navigate sensory overload and trauma as a highly sensitive person
Empaths and highly sensitive people "aren't just open to trauma. They're open to everything, and it can feel traumatic when you're young and don't have any guidance." - Dr. Judith Orloff
"Our nervous …
How to Understand and Recover from Narcissistic and Toxic Family Dynamics
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."
This au…
Adverse Childhood Experiences and creativity - A Notebook AI Podcast
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 thes…
Working With Our Emotions To Be More Creative
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…
How to Thrive in a Chaotic World as a Highly Sensitive Person
How to Thrive in a Chaotic World as a Highly Sensitive Person
From a free class by Therapist Julie Bjelland
"The modern world is often overwhelming and stressful for those of us with sensitive nervous …
How we can resist despair and keep creating even in turbulent times
Excerpt from the longer Creative Mind Audio episode How we can resist despair and keep creating even in turbulent times - “This is precisely the time when artists go to work."
In the full length epis…
Highly Sensitive, Neurodivergent and Misunderstood.
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…
Creativity, Mental Health and Recovery with Sarah Fay
"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…
Overcoming Adverse Childhood Experiences with Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 v…
How trauma drives anxiety and how to better regulate our system with psychologist Cheryl Arutt
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 …
Highly sensitive people can be more prone to stress and trauma
"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 me…