Oct 30, 2023·edited Oct 30, 2023Liked by Hazel Gale
I recently heard a story from my friend about how embroidery helped her family cope with grief. I unexpectedly cried while she told the story and showed me a few pictures of their art, and I didn’t understand why I felt it so deeply at the time. But reading this article it all makes sense.
That's a great example. It's fascinating how creativity offers another, often more vsiceral and direct, way of processing emotions. But maybe that's not so surprising given that humans engaged in art before we had language.
Just recently watched iron lady and it made me see that you have to keep putting your voice to change something that you see as important to people economic problems, put you tend to have to sacrifice something in return or lose that is the cost of trying to change
I tend to go for the most familiar types of stories first, I'm not sure what that means about my brains abilities but I have felt at times that reading was a similar feeling to addiction for me. Once I started reading stories about fantasy realms, where people had to get through unimaginable heartache to survive, that was the only kind of story I wanted. I went through piles and piles of YA novels in my highschool years of books with that same concept. Maybe part of me needed to learn more skills to adapt to difficult circumstances? I dunno but I thought this thought was relevant to the discussion 😅
That's a fascinating insight! I think you're onto something here, for sure. The hero's journey is so compelling and enduring, I think, because we all need to overcome something - external threats or internal conflicts - and stories, throughout the ages, have shown us how or given us the hope that it ca be done
I enjoy listening to a specific podcast because it covers interesting topics that I didn’t know anything about before. They are typically less than half an hour and give my brain new info about things I find fascinating.
I have cptsd and maladaptive daydreaming was always my escape. This sounds great in theory, who wouldn't want to escape reality for a minute, but it was almost all day every day whenever I had an idle moment. I learned through therapy that sometimes, depending on what we read or imagine, we actually can retraumatize ourselves or set ourselves into crisis because our bodies can't differentiate what we are reading from real life past experiences. So, yes, what you read really does matter. For example, when I was in hospital for my mental health, I read Duma Key. It resonated heavily with me in ways I didn't expect given it was Stephen King... the anger and the struggle to recovery chiefly. I walked away from that book determined to put in the work to get well. It's been three years since and I'm slowly digging my way out of the pit trauma left me in. I haven't given up and I still feel that determination. So, thanks Wireman and Freemantle... I owe you both one.
I think from now on I will have a totally different view on people who won’t cry in movies I cry.
Besides, stories are MY LIFE. And now I have finally confirmation that it’s right. It’s very fascinating. All the possibilities if you think about the possible applications. I mean your app is the best example.
I recently heard a story from my friend about how embroidery helped her family cope with grief. I unexpectedly cried while she told the story and showed me a few pictures of their art, and I didn’t understand why I felt it so deeply at the time. But reading this article it all makes sense.
That's a great example. It's fascinating how creativity offers another, often more vsiceral and direct, way of processing emotions. But maybe that's not so surprising given that humans engaged in art before we had language.
Just recently watched iron lady and it made me see that you have to keep putting your voice to change something that you see as important to people economic problems, put you tend to have to sacrifice something in return or lose that is the cost of trying to change
I tend to go for the most familiar types of stories first, I'm not sure what that means about my brains abilities but I have felt at times that reading was a similar feeling to addiction for me. Once I started reading stories about fantasy realms, where people had to get through unimaginable heartache to survive, that was the only kind of story I wanted. I went through piles and piles of YA novels in my highschool years of books with that same concept. Maybe part of me needed to learn more skills to adapt to difficult circumstances? I dunno but I thought this thought was relevant to the discussion 😅
That's a fascinating insight! I think you're onto something here, for sure. The hero's journey is so compelling and enduring, I think, because we all need to overcome something - external threats or internal conflicts - and stories, throughout the ages, have shown us how or given us the hope that it ca be done
I enjoy listening to a specific podcast because it covers interesting topics that I didn’t know anything about before. They are typically less than half an hour and give my brain new info about things I find fascinating.
I have cptsd and maladaptive daydreaming was always my escape. This sounds great in theory, who wouldn't want to escape reality for a minute, but it was almost all day every day whenever I had an idle moment. I learned through therapy that sometimes, depending on what we read or imagine, we actually can retraumatize ourselves or set ourselves into crisis because our bodies can't differentiate what we are reading from real life past experiences. So, yes, what you read really does matter. For example, when I was in hospital for my mental health, I read Duma Key. It resonated heavily with me in ways I didn't expect given it was Stephen King... the anger and the struggle to recovery chiefly. I walked away from that book determined to put in the work to get well. It's been three years since and I'm slowly digging my way out of the pit trauma left me in. I haven't given up and I still feel that determination. So, thanks Wireman and Freemantle... I owe you both one.
I think from now on I will have a totally different view on people who won’t cry in movies I cry.
Besides, stories are MY LIFE. And now I have finally confirmation that it’s right. It’s very fascinating. All the possibilities if you think about the possible applications. I mean your app is the best example.
And while I’m at it, THANK YOU.