DEVELOPING CREATIVITY

Newsletter 11.08.14

• Be Your Own Therapist

• Creative People, Trauma and Mental Health

• Creative Inspiration: The Art of Discovery book

• and much more

articles include :

"Journaling – writing down the truth of your feelings, your point of view,

your fears, angers, hopes - requires massive intimacy with

yourself. This self-intimacy is the essence of good therapy."

Psychotherapist Daniel Mackler

Be Your Own Therapist

Trauma takes many forms, and has different levels of impact on our mental health for each of us. In addition to professional

counseling, there are many resources for self-healing.

Psychotherapist Daniel Mackler speaks about nurturing our ability to know and take care of ourselves through writing.

Creative People, Trauma and Mental Health

How do people make use of traumatic experiences in their creative work? How can people regain emotional health?

Actor Patrick Stewart is one of many creative people who have been deeply impacted by trauma in early life.

Creative Inspiration: The Art of Discovery book

This article is about the book "The Art of Discovery: Hollywood Stars Reveal Their Inspirations," edited by Robin Bronk of The

Creative Coalition. She comments: “Art helps us discover who we are. What could be more important than that?”

Emotional Health Resources

Many creative people help manage and make use of strong emotions through creative expression.

Psychologist Cheryl Arutt comments: “Creating art has always been a way to channel emotional intensity… The greater access you maintain to yourself, the richer and

broader your array of creative tools.”

Additional articles in this edition :

• Srikumar Rao on our mental chatter

• Molly Gordon on inner and outer transformation

• Cheryl Richardson on sensitivity and self-care

• Brief quote: Alfre Woodard

• Stop Whining And Get Back To Work

• Creativity to fend off madness

• Robert Anthony on The Disease of Self-Improvement – when self growth runs amok

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Developing Creativity

The Developing Creativity newsletter is a publication of

Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology writer, researcher and online

publisher on psychology, creativity and personal growth.

Creator of the Talent Development Resources series of sites

The weekly newsletter presents selected articles and resources from the TalentDevelop sites - including related Facebook pages and other channels.

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