The Creative Mind

The Creative Mind

Sensitive & Neurodivergent

Highly sensitive and autistic women - Often a hidden world.
Listen now | Therapist Julie Bjelland says "the reason we call it hidden is because many of the things that we experience as autistic women are in fact…
 • Douglas Eby
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How CBT can help Neurodivergent people and others with emotional health challenges.
Listen now | Therapist Tara Geraghty-Ellis, MSW notes "There are a few mental health conditions that often co-occur with autism, including anxiety…
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3:39
How autistic women can feel lonely from misdiagnosis and being neurodivergent
“Many sensitive autistic women spend years feeling unseen and misunderstood — carrying a quiet kind of loneliness that no diagnosis ever quite…
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You can be highly sensitive and safe to be visible
Spiritual and leadership coach Catherine Andrews notes being a highly sensitive person doesn't mean it's not safe to be visible.
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Intensity and Being A Creative Person
Intensity may often be part of the life of creative artists and high ability people, and accompany their trait of high sensitivity.
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How to navigate sensory overload and trauma as a highly sensitive person
"Our nervous system is picking up more information, receiving information that others don't, feeling things that others don't, which means sometimes…
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24:14
Neurodivergent artists: Actors and Writers of 'Patience' (plus resources and more)
How can our ADHD, autism, dyslexia and other experiences contribute to being creative?
 • Douglas Eby
Autistic Women: Perspectives by Hannah Gadsby, Kayla Crome, Daryl Hannah, Sue Ann Pien, Zhara Astra, Julie Bjelland
Listen now | "Autism informs everything that I do - it's my processing unit so it's how the information goes in and out...I just think about things…
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28:15
Living As A Highly Sensitive Man: Redefining Masculinity And Resilience
"I want to live in a world where men feel safe to be tender, thoughtful, and emotionally attuned."
 • Douglas Eby
Sensory Overload can lead to anxiety, fatigue. How to renew energy and calm?
Listen now | As various researchers and therapists note, being a highly sensitive person or another form of neurodivergent, we can experience many…
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8:49
How Can Creative and Sensitive People Better Manage Stress and Anxiety?
How to Change Stressful Perceptions and Reactions. "Most people whose motor is too fast experience feelings of anxiety.”
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How to Thrive in a Chaotic World as a Highly Sensitive Person
Listen now | "The modern world is often overwhelming and stressful for those of us with sensitive nervous systems."
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