Podcast Episodes

Negativity Bias can distort and deflate. How can we gain better emotional health?

"We don’t pay attention to all events and our corresponding emotional reactions in the same way. One negative event can taint an overall good day."

An…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

How stories help us explore our Shadow Self 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 wi…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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."

Cathleen King, D…

11 months ago

How to understand and work with emotions so they benefit more than disrupt

Probably all of us don't like certain kinds or levels of emotion, and want to get away from them, sometimes in self-destructive ways.

Psychologist Che…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

How self-acceptance is a foundation for a healthy and creative life

Self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-regard, healthy self-esteem... how do these impact us, including being creative?

In this episode, a number of …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Facing our Shadow for more creativity, authentic power and purpose

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecreativemind.substack.com

"One of the most challenging parts of the critic in the Sha…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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 lo…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

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 temp…

1 year ago

Getting past feeling flawed to being authentic and connecting better with others

"It is hard to change that feeling flawed piece...it's so seeped into your bones." Julie Bjelland, LMFT

“Trauma results in this belief that we are dif…

1 year ago

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 C…

1 year ago