A number of people claim to have had an idyllic or happy early life, the sort evoked by this photo: The Walk to Paradise Garden [1946] by W. Eugene Smith [from the page The child self / playing.]
But for many of us who have been highly sensitive all our lives, and had challenging experiences as [...]

Creativity coach and author Eric Maisel, PhD says “When you free neurons from their usual grip on small thoughts — ten worries, fifteen errands, and so on — and get to reclaim them.. you experience a ‘pregnant emptiness’ which is actually your whole mind, now recovered, readying itself to create.
“The ‘quieting’ serves the ‘exploding’ of [...]

Gwen Stefani was a “shy girl who spent most of her time in a bedroom plastered with Marilyn Monroe posters, who nevertheless assumed she was destined for greatness,” according to a UK newspaper profile.
[From Gwen Stefani: Blonde with extra bottle, by Liz Hoggard, The Independent on Sunday, Nov 6, 2005; photo: as Jean Harlow in [...]

Musician Ani DiFranco produced her album, “Educated Guess,” entirely on her own. An interviewer asked, “Your approach, your energy on the current tour and on the new album seem different. Why is that?”
DiFranco: “The difference is solitude. I have it in my life now…”
In a new Psychology Today article, the author writes about Miina Matsuoka [...]