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Creative People’s Brains Really Do Work Differently

By Carolyn Gregoire

Creative people are able to juggle seemingly contradictory modes of thought—cognitive and emotional, deliberate and spontaneous.

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The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties.

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Sandra Marinella
2017
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Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal

Elaborating upon her “Living with Cancer” column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer’s wrongs.

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Susan Gubar
2016
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NeuroMovement Revolution Podcast: Healing Trauma and Building Resilience with Neural Re-Narrating

In this episode, Anat Baniel and Donna Jackson Nakazawa discuss: • the smallest cell in the brain—microglia—how it works and its function as an immune system; • groundbreaking discoveries about the brain and how microglia link mental and physical health; • how chronic stressors and trauma...

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2021
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa: "The Angel and the Assassin" in Conversation with Prof. Beth Stevens

Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning journalist and internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa about her course The Brain, Inflammation, and Recovery during COVID

https://www.eeglearn.com/bir Emerging research shows that how safe we feel in the world has a profound impact on our mental, physical, and immune health. When we at last emerge from the pandemic, we are poised for a mental health crisis of epic proportions.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2021
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The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell that Changed the Course of Medicine

Hailed as a “riveting,” “stunning,” and “visionary,” The Angel and the Assassin offers us a radically reconceived picture of human health and promises to change everything we thought we knew about how to heal ourselves.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2025
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Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

An accessible five-step program for treating an array of conditions related to negative emotions in a guide that combines Buddhist philosophies with Western techniques to address such issues as weight gain, depression, and addiction.

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Tsultrim Allione, Jack Kornfield (foreword)
2008
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