"We're given a great gift and a great responsibility, which is to tell stories as honestly as we can."

So many of us find dopamine hits, but get addicted, and are less happy.

Reflecting on the art I saw in 2025 and what it says

“Our nervous system is reacting to something from our past...it doesn’t know the difference in time.”

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 talents and abilities for creative expression, ...

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Listen now | Therapist Jessica Baum writes, "Safety is the presence of steadiness, not just lack of chaos, where you can exhale and be your full self, knowing you’ll still be loved.".

"Despite all of the ‘holiday cheer’ around us, the holiday blues seems more accurate.”

Elaine Aron notes many highly sensitive performers 'overprepare' for the extra arousal due to an audience. "Having prepared best, we succeed most."

"To get out of our heads and into our bodies a little more...I think gifted humans, neurodivergent humans and humans impacted by trauma...really have a hard time doing that."

» Also see longer video by Dr. Elizabeth Stanley (with link to her program MMFT Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training): Thinking Brain, Survival Brain and Recovering From Stress and Trauma…

High ability people experience both inner and social responses that may be self-limiting or even hurtful.

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“Many sensitive autistic women spend years feeling unseen and misunderstood — carrying a quiet kind of loneliness that no diagnosis ever quite explained.”

Genetics research and cognitive theory together are revealing autism’s biological depth and cognitive richness, shaping a future of personalized understanding.

The author reflects on their difficulty understanding ontology and epistemology during their undergraduate studies, ultimately identifying as a relativist-constructionist. They explain ontology as the exploration of existence and reality perception, while epistemology examines knowledge acquisition. Different epistemological perspectives include objectivism, constructionism, and subjectivism, shaping research approaches and interpretations.

"Do you think that your body, mind, biology, might still be holding on to? Let me share with you some of the biggest reasons that I see for why our body holds on."

Intensity may often be part of the life of creative artists and high ability people, and accompany their trait of high sensitivity.

“Unless someone understands they had trauma, they will feel they’re either crazy or broken."

“Imagine that your internal experience is like a river going down a mountain - without mindfulness it’s sort of like we’re caught in that river, smashing into the white water, the rocks...”

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"If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity." Creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi added that "Instead of being an individual, they are…

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"We have a thinking brain that can override this automatic [trauma] process controlled by the survival brain and nervous system, and we often impede this recovery process." Elizabeth Stanley, PhD. »…

Listen now | "Another form of nervous system dysregulation is when you can't shut off your idea switch and just be in the present moment." Dr Cathleen King

Listen now | “Creating art has always been a way to channel emotional intensity.” Psychologist Cheryl Arutt adds, “You don’t have to be in pain to do great work as an artist.”

Listen now | "When we store these emotions in our body and they become stuck, that blocks expressing who we are out into the world."

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