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The Creative Mind
Archives for Month: September 2012

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Too Much On Our Mind for Creative Thinking

By Douglas Eby

Our inner experience as talented, creative people could be called “teeming” – as in the title of a book by Jane Piirto, PhD: My Teeming Brain: Understanding Creative Writers. She…

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Traumatic Childhood, Creative Adult

By Douglas Eby

“Life without pain isn’t real at all.” Shia LaBeouf Many people have had traumatic childhoods, and are drawn to creative expression as part of their way to deal with it,…

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Clara Lieu: Creating Art On Depression – What People Don’t Talk About

By Douglas Eby

Depression impacts many people, including artists. A fairly long list of visual artists who died by suicide includes photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971), painters Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), Mark Rothko (1903-1970), Vincent…

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Getting More Life From Mindful Creating

By Douglas Eby

Ellen Langer, a Harvard Professor of Psychology, relates the story of being on vacation and making a spur of the moment declaration to a friend that she was “thinking of…

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Using Fear and Anxiety to be More Creative

By Douglas Eby

“I don’t do anything anymore that feels safe. If it doesn’t scare the crap out of you, then you’re not doing the right thing.” I’ve always liked that comment by…

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Creative Expression and EMDR to Deal With Trauma, PTSD and Abuse

By Douglas Eby

“I think I’ve spent my adult life dealing with the sense of low self-esteem that sort of implanted in me. Somehow I felt not worthy.” Halle Berry was commenting in…

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Trusting Your Creative Self

By Douglas Eby

If we are willing to put our creative work out there – into the world in some way – it will be judged and ranked. What if our book doesn’t…

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More Goofing Off and Daydreaming: More Creative Thinking

By Douglas Eby

Don’t we need to keep practicing, keep learning, keep busy to be creatively productive? A number of psychologists and artists say daydreaming or otherwise “wasting time” is actually a way…

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