Journey Through The Artist's Way

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10/22/20 • 66 min

Have you ever felt like there is an untapped artist within you waiting to be let free? Have you lost years of your life not being as creative as you feel you're capable of?

I sit down with my friend Arman Assadi to discuss his experience and journey with a book/course called The Artist's Way and how that changed his view of self, of starting a podcast, and how he is able to stoke FLOW better and faster because of it.

Full show notes and video: https://mynicheishuman.com/podcast/journey-through-the-artists-way/

Have you ever felt like there is an untapped artist within you waiting to be let free? Have you lost years of your life not being as creative as you feel you're capable of?

Full show notes and video: https://mynicheishuman.com/podcast/journey-through-the-artists-way/

Previous Episode

Exposing Narratives

From Movies, Commercials, Your Family and Friends; they're all telling you stories about themselves to either convince you of an idea or to control your world.

We're also doing this to ourselves, all, the, time. The stories we were told from an early age turn into the stories we continue to tell ourselves, sometimes our entire lives.

We unpack the idea of story, how and why we tell ourselves the stories we do, and what we can do to tell ourselves better, more empowering stories.

Join me and Dawn Fraser as we travel down this rabbit hole, you may find yourself on the other side.

In this episode, we cover:

Establishing your “life's work”, logging entries of life events, memories, and feelings
How lucky we are to have social media to use as an archive for looking back on our lives from an introspective perspective
Acknowledging what you are good at, what you are ok at, and what you are not so good at, make the stories based on reality not on what's been given (or told to you)
The 5 Love Languages and how they relate to our state of mind when we're telling ourselves how our stories are going
How to recognize the signs when things are off, and you keep telling yourself the same negative things, over and over
How to navigate media consumption and all the stories being fed to us online
Being mindful of the source of stories and wether it is a dialogue or one-way communication
Change is inevitable, growth is optional
Gratituding (its a new word)
Defining your micro-stories in place of relying on one big macro story
Learning to build in flexibility and detours into your vision/story to prevent discouragement that leads to quitting
Knowing the difference between the FACTS and the TRUTH
Learning to tell stories from our scars, and not our wounds...
How studying story and telling stories can teach you to tap into yours and make better connections between memories and events that have happened in your life

Full show notes and video: https://mynicheishuman.com/podcast/storytelling-and-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves/

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Understanding PTSD - Dr. Greene

I always thought you had to be in the military to get PTSD. Clearly, I didn't understand what trauma really is...

But PTSD, or trauma is so much more than being exposed to war. I've often wondered about the idea of "micro-trauma"; almost getting hit by a car, losing a job, being betrayed by a loved one... anything that causes us to question our reality in an instant. How do these events change our lives, how does our behavior change, our outlook on ideals like trust, family, and hard work?

If you're just as curious as I am, give this episode a chance. I sit down with my friend Taryn Greene who is currently seeking her PhD in Health Psychology from UNC with a focus on Post Traumatic Growth. This is a very candid interview with some surprises.

To see the video and show notes, visit, https://mynicheishuman.com/podcast/understanding-ptsd-post-traumatic-growth/