The Link Between Creativity & Healing
🎙️ This is Episode 19 of the Nervous System Care & Healing Podcast with Liz Zhou, a therapist specializing in neurodiversity, complex trauma, & psychedelic integration.
EPISODE SUMMARY
What if we saw creativity as not just a nice-to-have extra thing, but as an essential part of the human experience & the healing process?
We are all creative beings.
(Yes, even if you think you’re “bad at art” or “not creative.”)
In this episode of the Nervous System Care & Healing podcast, I unpack the following ideas:
Creativity can look so many different ways - from picking an outfit for the day to knitting a sweater to singing a song
Creativity is a part of healing - individual & collective
Creativity is a way to connect to Self
Creativity is a shared experience with community
Creativity is a means of pattern disruption, allowing the brain to build neuroplasticity
Creativity is an antidote to toxic perfectionism, challenging capitalistic standards of productivity
Creativity is a means of hope & world-building
The intention of this episode is to encourage you, inform you, and inspire you to be your most creative self.
EPISODE QUOTE
“When we’re in touch with our creative power, we can say: okay, there’s a problem in front of us. How do we strategize and organize together - using our creativity, putting our minds & hearts together - to imagine a way forward, envision a different future, and to build a new kind of world together. All of that takes creativity. Creativity is a stepping stone to world-building. It is the ability to look around us, to challenge the parts of the status quo that are not working, and to come up with something different and hopefully better.”
About the Author
Liz Zhou (she/her) is a neurodivergent therapist, coach, and speaker. She helps highly sensitive, neurodivergent adults & couples heal their nervous systems and connect with their authentic selves, using brain-body modalities (Brainspotting, EMDR, IFS, psychedelic integration) that are quicker & more effective than traditional talk therapy. Liz offers Nervous System Healing Intensives online worldwide.
