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"When you don't know how to process emotions, you might blow up, shut down, or avoid your emotions through things like food, alcohol, TV, or gaming."

Therapist Emma McAdam, LMFT continues about emotional dysregulation:

"If emotions are getting in the way of you living your life, you can learn how to slow down, think clearly, and make choices that make your life better.

"Instead of getting overwhelmed, blowing up, or trying to control or merely cope with your emotions, learn to actually resolve them."

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Judith Orloff MD is a NY Times bestselling author of multiple books, and is "a psychiatrist, an empath and intuitive healer, and is on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty.

"She synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality and passionately believes in the power of integrating this wisdom for total wellness." (From profile on her site.)

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Psychologist Melanie Joy notes this is an incredibly dysregulating time for everyone, especially those of us who are highly sensitive.

This is an excerpt from her conversation with Andrea Weber for the Sensitive Empowerment Community.

Dr Joy comments: "We're especially affected by violence, chaos, and unpredictability. And right now, it's just an incredibly dysregulating time, as you pointed out, for everyone.

"So the question really is, how do we find the balance, right? So how do we take in enough information?

"I think this is one of the things that does...

Linda Roggli is one of the speakers at the Let's Talk 2E Conference For Adults, hosted by Julie Skolnick.

Her live presentation was titled Free to Be ADHD (and 2e).

The site for the Conference summarizes:

Linda Roggli is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), award-winning author and founder of the A-D-Diva Network for ADHD women 40-and-better.

She is an internationally-recognized expert in midlife and senior ADHD. She co-founded the annual ADHD Women’s and ADHD Parents’ Palooza, two weeks of online conversation with 30+ ADHD experts. (adhdpalooza.com)

She also crea...

"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."

Anne-Laure Le Cunff, PhD explains more about our brain's Negativity Bias: "It’s the same with interactions: you may have a good relationship with someone who has supported and complimented you many times over, but you will tend to more saliently remember the one time they shared negative feedback."

(Image above is an edited version from her article.) [1]

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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 within ourselves."

This Creative Mind Audio is an excerpt from much longer video interview with Melissa Kim Corter: The Alchemy of Fairy Tales & Jungian Shadow Work. (Register free for the Shift Network program.)

Corter comments, "Denzel Washington once said that some people will never like you because your spirit will irritate their demons.

"It took me years to understand that this is a...

"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, DPT, is a "doctor of physical therapy who teaches neuroscience principles, and is a mind-body practitioner."

This audio is an excerpt from her conversation at the 2025 Trauma Super Conference, titled "Trauma, Emotional Processing, and Physical Health."

A summary of topics:

*Why we should understand the science behind nervous system regulation

*How to separate trauma story from identity

*Self-regulation techniques...

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 Cheryl Arutt notes "Creative people do tend to be highly sensitive and an exquisite sensitivity is an asset when it comes to creating art...but that same sensitivity can often make the painful experiences that they have even more so."

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett says "You might believe that your brain is prewired with emotion circuits, that you're born with emotion circuits, but you're not."

Emotions researcher Karla McLaren...

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

In this episode, a number of artists and psychologists talk about their perspectives and some of the research.

Actor Michelle Rodriguez said,

“I don’t think it’s narcissistic at all to love yourself and believe in yourself. I think some people are really scared to do that.

“I have to. If I don’t, I would not succeed in what I do...

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"One of the most challenging parts of the critic in the Shadow is the inner critic.

“When your inner critic has completely taken over, and you don't have the clarity to trust yourself, this becomes a significant spiritual crisis." Caroline Myss (from her video on The Critic below).

(Photo: Rachel Weisz as twin gynecologists in Dead Ringers. This image reminded of how disparaging and dismissive our inner talk can be.)

Caroline Myss comments:

"Th...