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Creative People with Headaches and Stomach Aches

7/19/2022

 
Part of my regular screening to understand the scope of my new Creative Client’s problems is  to ask them about headaches and stomach aches. I even regularly touch base with local gastroenterologist offices and nearby neurologists to offer my services, and to connect with  good providers of these services around me, to send my own clients to. Headaches and  stomach aches are common symptoms amongst Creative People!  

Headaches and Creative People

There is a lot of crossover in what people have been diagnosed with in the past, what has  brought them into my office, and what can actually be strengths of their Creative Personalities.  A regular example of this is the crossover of ADHD features to Creative Personality features. In  fact, many, if not most, Creative People have features that are neurodivergent, and most  people with ADHD that are also Creative are able to stick to and execute plans they are  passionate about, better (Boot, Nevicka, and Baas, 2020). As there are dualities in all things,  this beneficial feature has a risk of detrimental hyperfocus, and oftentimes physically I see this  in Creative People as a migraine. 
The picture I often give is of a computer with too many tabs open, a fan unable to cool it down,  either freezing itself or forcing itself to shut down. Our brain is also, electrical. A migraine may be a natural, organismic reaction to enthusiasm or otherwise driven overdoing.
Picture of a working artist in her chair with a paint palette holding the bridge of her nose with a headache. Creative people in Maryland and Virginia can get help with a creativity coach or creativity counseling here.

Headaches and Creative Personalities

There was a study by Gerhard and Huber (2003) that researched personality traits and stress  sensitivity in migraine patients. They also established a link between migraine severity and  length and the personality trait of secondary neuroticism and increased sensitivity to stress. In  other words, quick arousal when stimulated especially along the axes of anxiety and  depression symptoms, and the slow resolution of these symptoms once aroused, was  associated with higher migraine intensity.  
If these traits sound familiar to you, they should. They are aligned with the higher sensory  capacity that Creative People feel. Especially those Creative People who are HSPs. You are in  touch with the way your body feels with a very sensitive threshold- and this study reaffirms  this information with a creative personality trait and migraines.

Stomach Aches and Creative People

Picture of a black male artist in a wheelchair holding his stomach and looking like he is in pain. Creative people in Maryland and Virginia can get help with a creativity coach based in Richmond, VA or creativity counseling near Baltimore, MD here.
From the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, “Researchers have identified a  powerful connection between the gut and the brain. Like the brain, the gut is full of nerves. It  contains the largest area of nerves outside the brain with the digestive tract and the brain  sharing many of the same nerve connections.” This article continues to explore the impact of  emotions on the stomach and digestion, including long-term conditions and diseases. 
We know creative people have powerful emotions, and that emotions are expressed in the  body. It follows, then, that the expression of these emotions often impact the stomachs of  creative people. This is why I regularly reverse engineer my search by looking for powerful  emotional expression by asking about chronic stomach aches.  

Conclusions about Headaches and Stomach Aches in Creative People

Understanding your body and its rhythms is a vital part of caring for your Creative Personality  well. When you learn the links between your Creative Personality and the way your body reacts to and experiences life, you feel more empowered to take care of yourself well. Creative Personalities are powerful and manifest themselves in many powerful ways. It is important to  educate yourself and learn for yourself how your Creative Personality presents itself in your  own life. When you support and nurture yourself well as a Creative Person, you will truly  flourish.  
Picture of a person holding their phone over their laptop, with colorful pens and a plant in the background. Creative people in Maryland and Virginia can get help with a creativity coach near Baltimore, MD or creativity counseling based in Richmond, VA here.

Learn More About Support for Creative People in Maryland, Virginia, and Beyond

If you are interested in real, impactful, and lasting life change for your creative mind, I would  love to help you. Let's connect and launch your life to the next level! I have three steps you  can take, right now from my site if you are ready to move forward in your life: 
1) Book a Free Consultation. All new clients to Creatively, LLC are entitled to a 15 min, free creativity coaching or counseling consultation to sit with me and discuss your needs, services available, and we can problem  solve and hand-pick the best next steps to help you succeed. 
2) Begin Counseling for the Modern Day Creative Person. Are you a working Creative in need  of specific support? I offer a range of Counseling Services so you can select exactly what you  need, and nothing that you don't. Creativity Counseling offers 30 min sessions to 60-minute  sessions, as well as asynchronous support. 
3) Join my Artists in Residency Program.  This is a Free, Online Community of Artists where  you can build support, accountability, and a network of Creative People as a stepping stone  towards reconnecting and committing to your authentic, creative self.  

More Articles like Creative People with Headaches and Stomach Aches

Creative Translation, Crisis of Meaning: Creative People Lost, Coaching Creative People, A Creative Personality Snapshot, From One Creative to Another, Finding your Creative Balance, Dream Theory for Creative People, Creative People, Mental Health and Creativity
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References 
Boot N, Nevicka B, Baas M. Creativity in ADHD: Goal-Directed Motivation and Domain  Specificity. Journal of Attention Disorders. 2020;24(13):1857-1866.  doi:10.1177/1087054717727352 
Dorothea Huber Dr, Dr. Phil & Gerhard, (2003) Personality Traits and Stress Sensitivity in Migraine Patients, Behavioral Medicine, 29:1, 4-13, DOI: 10.1080/08964280309596169 
https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/how-calm-anxious-stomach-brain-gut-connection

Creation Translation

7/5/2022

 
Hello, Wonderful Creative Minds! Today I want to introduce you to an often  encountered, rarely talked about feature of the creative experience, that I  affectionately call the “Creation Translation.” This is the critical part of your  creative process where your internal experience becomes translated into your  external expression. This seemly nuanced, though very real process, is one of  the most important, difficult, and unique aspects of your creativity. While it varies artist to artist, and by type of expression, as a part of the creative process, we can generally speak about it in a cohesive way as it functions for Creative  People. 

Creation Translation Works Like A Muscle

One of the first things I tell Creative People about your Creative Translation, or  CT for short, is that it functions in many ways like a muscle. Not unlike  language, musical, mathematical, or other types of translation, the more you use  your CT, the easier it gets, and vice versa. The key, then, is to use it with  regularity, to keep your CT flexible and strong. A regularly practiced CT is a key component to the much sought-after “creating with ease.”  

CT is Important For All Types of Artists and Creative Minds

All types of Creative People use this important creative process, the CT.  Different from technical skill and creative perception, CT is a combination of  these important features to take what you as an artist experience and present it in a way that is consistent with that, for others to share in that experience. This  is an important way in which we use art to communicate! 
Picture of a hand holding a paintbrush to a canvas. Creative people and working artists in Maryland and Virginia can get help with Creation Translation with a creativity coach near Richmond, VA or Baltimore, MD here.

Needs Use and Practice by Creative People

Your CT needs regular use and practice to flourish. This is simply true. You may  know the feeling of frustration and growth upon learning and building a new skill,  or training and expanding a new set of muscles, and building and training your  CT with use is not much different than that. You are keeping a part of your mind  and creative process in good shape that will support your creative and mental  health in a sustainable way.

Creation Translation Flourishes With Use, Atrophies With Disuse

While your CT flourishes with use, it will similarly atrophy and weaken with  disuse. This emphasizes the importance of commitment to the regular practice  of your creativity, translating your concepts into expression.
Akin to “flow” described in creativity research, CT allows you to be more productive. From the perspective of a painter, imagine looking back and forth from your subject, to your canvas, and that good feeling of flow, back and forth, from seeing, to paint stroke, where the image you are creating comes to life on the canvas. You are translating the real-life image, through your own creative filters,  brain, techniques, and inclinations, through the brush and onto the canvas,  where it comes to life as your own interpretation. This ease or flow-like state is the combination of your artistic skill and your creative ideas combined,  recreating your vision.  

Inability to Start a New Project With Disuse

Picture of hands stuck on a laptop with a blank screen, with a blank pad of paper and pen and coffee. Creative people and working artists in Maryland and Virginia can get help with Creation Translation with a creativity coach near Richmond, VA or Baltimore, MD here.
You are a writer, and ready to start your new book. You look at the flashing  cursor on your blank screen and feel stuck. You have a concept, you have  researched it, and you have a creative voice and perspective from which you write but somehow you don’t know how to begin. It is the lack of use and regular practice of your CT that is feeling stuck and blocked, keeping you from your first keystrokes, to begin your new work. Without regular creative practice,  exercising the translation of a concept to creative execution, this difficult task  becomes rusty and increasingly difficult to engage with. It is one of the main  reasons my artists struggle to maintain a regular creative practice in the first  place! 

How Regular Creative Practice Can Help Creative People

Often, I talk about the dichotomous nature of things, especially in creative  concepts. One of these dichotomies is between process and product. They are  ever at odds with each other, and the more you focus on one, the further you get  from the other, creating a lovely tension and balance. It is important to  remember that CT is a PROCESS-oriented concept, not a PRODUCT-oriented  concept. In other words, consistent creative practice keeps your CT running  smoothly, and, especially in the beginning of establishing a creative practice, you  must not invest in your creative product in order to allow your CT to build and  grow strong. Over time, the regular use of your CT in an ongoing creative  practice will produce the ease and flow you seek, generating a more consistent,  authentic product reflective of your sensibility as an artist.

How Regular Use of Creation Translation is Good for Your Worldview, Self-Esteem, and Mental Health as a Creative Person

Picture of a working artist and writer happily composing on her laptop while dictating on her phone. Creative people and working artists in Maryland and Virginia can get help with Creation Translation with a creativity coach near Richmond, VA or Baltimore, MD here.
From a mental health perspective, regular creative practice is the most healthy  thing a creative person can do for their mental health. This is something I have  researched myself, and build much of my Creativity Counseling and Creativity  Coaching principles upon. One of the reasons a regular creative practice is so important is because of the maintenance of your CT. A creative with a well-maintained CT tends to have healthy self-esteem, a clear sense of  meaningfulness, perspective, and a sense of purpose in the world. In  traditional cognitive therapy, we see concepts and research that reinforce these  principles, such as Beck’s Cognitive Triad, that mood states impact thoughts that impact self-esteem.  ​

Learn More About Your Creative Personality, and Build a Regular Creative Practice

If you are interested in real, impactful, and lasting life change for your creative mind, I would  love to help you. Let's connect and launch your life to the next level! I have three steps you  can take, right now from my site if you are ready to move forward in your life: 
1) Book a Free Consultation. All new clients to Creatively, LLC are entitled to a 15 min, free creativity coaching or counseling consultation to sit with me and discuss your needs, services available, and we can problem  solve and hand-pick the best next steps to help you succeed. 
2) Begin Counseling for the Modern Day Creative Person. Are you a working Creative in need  of specific support? I offer a range of Counseling Services so you can select exactly what you  need, and nothing that you don't. Creativity Counseling offers 30 min sessions to 60-minute  sessions, as well as asynchronous support. 
3) Join my Artists in Residency Program.  This is a Free, Online Community of Artists where  you can build support, accountability, and a network of Creative People as a stepping stone  towards reconnecting and committing to your authentic, creative self.  

Other Articles like, “Creation Translation”

​Crisis of Meaning: Creative People Lost, Coaching Creative People, A Creative Personality Snapshot, From One Creative to Another, Finding your Creative Balance, Dream Theory for Creative People, Launch Creatively Into Spring, Creative People, Mental Health and Creativity
(C) 2022 Creatively, LLC  
www.creativelyllc.com

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    Cindy Cisneros

     is a Creativity Coach, Creativity Counselor and Professional Artist in Sykesville, Maryland.  She provides Online Creativity Counseling in Maryland and Virginia, and Online Creativity Coaching throughout the USA, Canada and the UK.

    ​The information provided in this blog is from my own clinical experiences and training. It is intended to supplement your clinical care. Never make major life changes before consulting with your treatment team.  If you are unsure of​ your safety or wellbeing, do not hesitate to get help immediately. 

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