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

This is a short preview - Hear the full podcast and see resources at How Dopamine affects the brain can be a key to improving our lives.

"We live in a world that's designed to hijack your dopamine. We're scrolling, sending another text, looking at videos.

"Understanding what is happening in the brain is the key to changing our lives.

“Dopamine itself is a signal. It’s a neurotransmitter that’s essential for the experience of pleasure, reward, and motivation.”

Dr. Anna Lembke, Chief of Addiction Medicine at Stanford.

In this creative mind audio, Dr. Lembke explains how much this neurotransmitter affects our motivations and attention and quality of experience, including happiness.

The first short segment is from the video trailer for her Masterclass, followed by a clip from a Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross, then a short clip from a sample video from her class.

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Therapist Jessica Baum writes, "You might not use the word safety when talking about your relationships. But you do know the feeling of walking on eggshells, shrinking yourself to avoid conflict, or bracing for the moment they pull away or you explode."

She notes "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."

This is a brief excerpt from the full episode, with audio and text about her online course 7 Stages of Detoxing from Toxic Relationships.

See the original podcast page: How to understand toxic relationships, and gain healthy ones.

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Dr. Cathleen King on how to move into safety and healing: "From a young age, many of us learned to brace for life instead of relax into it.

"This constant vigilance trains the nervous system to stay in survival mode: blocking rest, repair, and true healing."

Dr Cathleen King teaches neuroscience principles related to trauma and health recovery.

This audio is from one of her videos. She notes in the description, "In this video, we’ll explore how early life experiences shape chronic stress patterns, why the nervous system learns to protect instead of restore, and how you can begin retraining your body to feel safe enough to heal... from autoimmune conditions, trauma, or persistent health issues."

» Visit her Primal Trust site to "Learn to consciously self-regulate your biology and heal." Includes free ebook: "How Healing Happens", plus membership community with live classes, plus articles, newsletter and more.

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Dr. Hollis, a Jungian analyst, is author of multiple classes on the Jung Platform site. This is a brief audio excerpt from his free video talk Introduction to Jungian Shadow Work.

The registration page summarizes:

“In this introduction you will learn more about Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow and how it is relevant in your daily lives.

“The talk offers guidance and tools to become more conscious of Shadow aspects within ourselves, groups and other individuals.

“Becoming conscious of the shadow is the first step in the process of individuation, the process of psychological growth according to Jung.”

» Register free to view the full video talk: Introduction to Jungian Shadow Work.

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» Also see my Jungian Psychology Resources page - Videos, articles and programs about depth psychology teachings of Jung, to enhance our personal growth and creativity.

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"It makes us feel very alone, isolated, different, less than."

Jeffrey Rutstein continues, "That's one of the things that also makes anxiety so hard to bear. So many of us not only struggle with anxiety, but we blame ourselves for being anxious:

'I know better, I shouldn't be anxious here.
'Oh, I teach my patients how to relax, I shouldn't be anxious.
'I'm a meditator. I shouldn't be anxious.'

"And lots of people get feedback from other people: 'You're too anxious. You worry too much. You're too sensitive. You think too much.' Which, by the way, doesn't help anyone and you can't stop doing this."

Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein is a clinical psychologist and expert in the treatment of trauma. This audio is from a Sounds True video excerpt from his Navigating Anxiety program.

He comments about his program:

"In this workshop, we’re going to show you ways you can intervene with your anxiety and also free yourself from viewing your anxiety, fear, and worry as your fault."

Navigating Anxiety program - Insights and Practices to Heal Your Nervous System and Restore Emotional Well-Being.

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"When we are storing these emotions in our body and they become stuck, they are preventing us from having the clear, clean, energetic flow through our muscles, glands and organs that we should.

"I believe that that is essential for physical health. And I also believe that when we hold emotional blocks, it blocks the energy of our spirit.

"It blocks who we are from expressing that out into the world."

▶️ Online Course: Stop Feeling Like Sh*t - From Depression to Creative Expression. Lifting Depression for Writers and Creatives with Amy B. Scher.

Amy Scher is "an energy therapist who helps people break through blocks...the author of the How to Heal Yourself series and other books, and endorsed by notable authors such as Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray Love; Dr. Sanjiv Chopra, Harvard Medical School; and more." (From a Sounds True profile.)

This audio is a brief excerpt from an episode of the Insights at the Edge podcast by Sounds True, hosted by Tami Simon.

To hear more episodes, see the page of Amy B. Scher books and programs, and click "Podcast" at bottom of the page.

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Psychologist Cheryl Arutt found with her therapy clients that "Creative artists, actors and writers and people who do performances, had a different relationship with their trauma than regular people who don't consider themselves creatives."

She notes “Polyvagal theory is a new way of thinking about the autonomic nervous system…the part with the things that our body does all on its own without thinking about it, like breathing and heart rate.

“We've learned about things like the fight or flight response and the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, where a lot of times people know that when they need to fight or run away from something it's their sympathetic, and when they're relaxed, it's the parasympathetic.

“But polyvagal theory takes things further…”

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This is an excerpt - hear full episode on page with links to resources:

How Polyvagal Theory and Therapy Help Trauma Recovery, with Dr. Cheryl Arutt

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"Wild animals go through traumatic events all the time but they don't [usually] develop PTSD.

Elizabeth Stanley, PhD adds, "Each time through this cycle [trauma and recovery] they add to their toolbox of survival skills and they widen their window.

"In humans however, we have a thinking brain that can override this automatic process controlled by the survival brain and nervous system, and we often impede this recovery process."

Those comments are from her online program Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training.

» Free video Learning Session by Sounds True "Why You Can’t Just ‘Push Through’ Stress—And What Actually Works Instead" from Dr. Elizabeth Stanley's program Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT).

This Creative Mind Audio episode is an excerpt from the Untangle Podcast, hosted by Patricia Karpas, who starts by asking Dr. Stanley about her personal journey leading into her writings and teachings on trauma recovery and resilience.

» Hear the full (47min) "Episode 500 Can You Rewire Your Brain and Train Yourself to Be More Resilient? With Dr. Elizabeth Stanley" in Meditation Studio. (See link to podcast at bottom of page).

Meditation Studio is part of the site of Muse EEG headband for stress relief and resilience.

Dr Stanley notes “When we're regulated, we're more likely to find agency and access choice in every situation, no matter how challenging, stressful, or traumatic it might be."

This is a preview of my longer podcast episode How to Recover and Rewire to be More Resilient With Mind Fitness Training.
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