Habits and Helpful Strategies for Squiggly Brained Creatives

Today, we muse on…

  • How to identify sensory processing and sensory wellness preferences and which environmental accommodations to seek

  • Being diagnosed at various ages and what this does for your learning and development

  • How to identify when getting help for a specific diagnosis is helpful

  • Strategies for planning and externalizing your thoughts when dealing with ADHD and executive dysfunction

  • The practice of “junk journaling” for psychic release for squiggly-brained creatives

  • Strategies for coping with overwhelm and getting out of our heads and back into our bodies

Episode Corrections

  • Neurodiversity, as a term, rose to prominence in the 1990s

    • Not having access to specialists is among the major issues with our healthcare system

    • Neurodivergent versus neurotypical

    • In what ways do individuals' sensory processing patterns differ?

    • Is sensory processing dysfunction a real disorder?

    • What sensory hyper-responsiveness is, and when it becomes a problem

    • Sensory under-responsive and sensory craving defined

    • Interactional breakdown between these two neuro types

    • Why is it crucial for individuals to be aware of their own sensory preferences?

    • When you exhaust yourself so rapidly and believe that nothing you do will make a difference

    • How we might better understand these aspects of us so that we can govern our behavior without being unkind to ourselves throughout the day

    • Areas of executive functioning

    • A mismatch between knowledge and action

    • Seasonal Goal Setting: flowing with the cycles of our external world to serve as a reminder of our internal world

    • Why so many new year's resolutions fail

    • Seasonally cycling through your goals

    • Temporal discounting versus time blindness

    • The significance of engaging in a daily creative ritual

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