Episode 117: Creativity, Anxiety & Authenticity with Amanda Beck, PhD

About this episode

This episode explores the connections between anxiety, authenticity, and creativity with Amanda Beck.

This episode explores the connections between anxiety, authenticity, and creativity, including the hidden gifts and messages of anxiety and their implications for personal development. Amanda Beck is an actress, writer, and doctor of humanistic psychology whose work lives at the intersection of creativity, anxiety, and the authentic self. She holds a PhD from Saybrook University with a specialization in Creativity Studies, where her dissertation explored the deep connections between anxiety, ...

People in this episode

Host: Melinda Rothouse

Guest: Amanda Beck

Topics covered

• creativity
• anxiety
• authenticity
• personal development
• humanistic psychology

Keywords

• creativity
• anxiety
• authenticity
• personal development
• humanistic psychology
• dissertation
• psychology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Saybrook University

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