The Modern Creative Woman

Send us a Text Message.May I be healthy, safe and strong. May you be healthy, safe and strong. May all beings on planet Earth be healthy, safe and strong. May all beings throughout all time and space be healthy, safe and strong. This episode is all about peace and loving kindness. What if I told you I had a magic formula that could lessen your self-criticism, improve your wellbeing

Send us a Text Message."You can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean and a sea." C. Joybell C. Why do we seek change? Behavioral psychology says there's two reasons we might want to change. One is to remove discomfort or pain. Essentially, it's remo

Send us a Text Message.We make ourselves suffer the more we think, and when we live in our heads, we're missing all the feelings, all the experiences, and all the other sensations that we have available to us. Over-thinking leads to "dis-ease". Over-thinking means relying on this one aspect of our human experience, (our brain) to the exclusion of all the other rich, cool and amazin

Send us a Text Message.Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. Maya Angelou Welcome to the Modern Creative Woman, where we explore the power of creativity through neuro aesthetics, art therapy and innovative thinking. I'm Dr. Amy Backos, y

Send us a Text Message."There is widespread agreement that art is very important, but it can be remarkably difficult to say quite why." This quote from Alain de Botton starts off today's episode all about the seven functions of art that you can use in your everyday life. Art as therapy postulates that creativity and art making is inherently human. It's part of our biology. It's wha

Send us a Text Message."I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for." Georgia O'Keeffe How does your brain respond to ambiguity? Science and art have a lot to say about this! Ambiguity is really just the quality of being open to more than one interpretation. Ambiguity is really just the quality of being open to more

Send us a Text Message.Creativity is not the problem. You and all of humankind are naturally and inherently creative. We have lots of creative ideas every day, and yet we have thoughts that stop us from taking internal and external action on our creative ideas. This episode is all about new ways to react to creative ideas. If you are considering how you can make an impact in your l

Send us a Text Message.To think like an artist is to make contact with your intuitive spirit of exploration. This week's podcast is all about how to think like an artist. Welcome to the modern creative woman. Explain the art and science of creativity. We can be more authentic, more self expressive, and being in the present moment helps make the world a little bit better, because th

Send us a Text Message.We change over time. Sometimes in dramatic ways where we make a big life change, and other times we change intentionally in small ways that lead to something big later on. And we're always just changing naturally. To live our life is to evolve, and if we try to avoid changing, we really get stuck. It leads to a whole different kind of usually unwanted sorts o

Send us a Text Message.“Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” This quote from Helen Keller starts off our episode all about desire. We're talking today about using your creative mind to understand this deeper perspective of your desires, your dreams, your wishes. We'll talk all about desire, some of the upsides and the downsides of how we've been trained