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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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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.”
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"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."
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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.
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Some basic strategies can help us relieve anxiety
When we experience anxiety, we may choose unhealthy strategies, or use a variety of healthy self-help activities.
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How Dopamine affects the brain can be a key to improving our lives
So many of us find dopamine hits, but get addicted, and are less happy.
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Do you read and listen to podcast interviews with artists, psychologists and others, on my multiple sites? Thanks for a donation to help with expenses.
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Online communities that support creative, highly sensitive, gifted, neurodivergent people
How can participating in a community of others that share your unique personality and cognitive differences help enhance your personal growth and…
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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."
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Margaret Atwood - "By writing, you are following a very long tradition."
“Story-telling may be one of the oldest human things we do. A novel is simply a long story..."
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Why other people can trigger strong emotional reactions
“Our nervous system is reacting to something from our past...it doesn’t know the difference in time.”
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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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