Creating a Creative Habit

Painful memories can be hard to shake. But when you’re traumatized by past experiences, imagery rescripting is a technique that might help. It has long been used as a part of psychotherapy, especially in helping in helping to resolve childhood traumas that affect people into adulthood. But recent research focuses on how you can use imagery rescripting to help you change your memories, and even your self-image, from negative to positive. Dr. Susan Krauss Whitbourne is a Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her latest book is The Search for Fulfillment.

It seems like every day someone we know is offended by a comment from a coworker, a family member, or even a complete stranger. The things we say have the power to profoundly affect those around us, for better or for worse. Yet there’s a way we may be offending people without even knowing it. It’s called microaggressions. Dr. Derald Wing Sue is a professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University, and is the other of several books, including Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation.

This weekend the movie First Man released to theaters. The movie stars Ryan Gosling playing Neil Armstrong, the first man who walked on the moon. For our weekly Family Movie Night feature, our producer and family film reviewer Rod Gustafson is with us to talk about First Man and how movies about exploring space often reflect our overall optimism for the future.