The Creative Mind

The Creative Mind

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Online therapy can be as helpful. What are the advantages?
Listen now (3 mins) | We can benefit from working with a therapist in person. But for many, this may not be available or desirable. Online therapy has…
 • Douglas Eby
"Your job is to tell a story." - David Mamet Teaches Dramatic Writing
"We're given a great gift and a great responsibility, which is to tell stories as honestly as we can."
 • Douglas Eby
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How we can resist despair and keep creating even in turbulent times
Listen now (22 mins) | “This is precisely the time when artists go to work...We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."
 • Douglas Eby
Managing Our Anxiety To Live Better and Be More Creative
We can experience many flavors of insecurity, worry and anxiety from just being human and managing our complex lives, especially as creative or highly…
 • Douglas Eby
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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
Resource collections: How to develop creative talents, health, business success
These collections provide information, inspiration, and programs on a wide range of topics that can impact our lives, health, and how well we access our…
 • Douglas Eby
Being Both Highly Sensitive and Autistic: The Sensitive Autistic Neurotype
Neurotype refers to classes of nervous systems, such as the neurodivergent “differently wired brains” many of us have, with ADHD, autism, and other…
 • Douglas Eby
Our Complex and Creative Personality
"If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity."
 • Douglas Eby
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…
 • Douglas Eby
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How to Improve Your Communication on Valentine’s Day & Anytime
“Personal connection creates mental and emotional stimulation...People with close connections are happier, healthier, live longer.”
 • Douglas Eby
How to support stress relief: use links between thoughts, behavior, feelings
Listen now | Sometimes unhelpful behaviours can cause or prolong our stress. For instance, perhaps you put things off until the last minute? Or you feel…
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Selected resources on emotional health on Pinterest
My Pinterest Page is another collection of resources with information and programs by psychologists, health coaches, artists, and others.
 • Douglas Eby
The Creative Mind
The Creative Mind
Information and inspiration for creative, highly sensitive, high ability/gifted, perhaps neurodivergent, people: posts and podcast episodes with artists, psychologists, program authors, and more.
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