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The Spruce Podcast
by WhisperKind
The Spruce Podcast is a thoughtful personal briefing on the mind, meaning, creativity and connection. Episodes explore ideas from neuroscience, psychology, mindfulness, neurodiversity, trauma and wellbeing, alongside creativity, art, spirituality, animals and the quieter questions that shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. Expect calm, curious conversations, interesting new research, practical ideas and occasional reflections designed to be easy to listen to while walking, travelling or getting everyday tasks done.
Episodes
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Episode 19 — Your Brain on a Blank Page
Why can making a few repetitive marks on paper become so absorbing? We explore the neuroscience of creativity, doodling, colouring and structured drawing — including why creativity isn’t a “right-brain” activity, how imagination and evaluation cooperate, and why constraints can sometimes make us...
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Episode 18 — What Is It Like to Be Another Animal?
What does the world feel like from inside another animal’s mind? We travel through a decade of animal-consciousness research: optimistic bees, laughing rats, grieving dogs, extraordinary octopuses and the growing scientific recognition that subjective experience may extend much further across the...
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Episode 17 — The Hidden Sense That Tells You How You Feel
How do you know you’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, tired or comfortable? Welcome to interoception — the brain’s extraordinary attempt to understand what is happening inside the body. We explore how interoception research has changed over the last decade and what it may tell us about emotion…
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Episode 16 — Why Humans Keep Looking for the Transcendent
Why do humans repeatedly seek experiences that make the ordinary sense of self seem to disappear? From awe beneath a night sky to deep meditation and psychedelic mystical experiences, scientists are beginning to study states once considered almost impossible to investigate. We explore awe,...
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Episode 15 — When Mindfulness Got Too Good to Be True
For a while, mindfulness seemed capable of fixing almost everything — stress, attention, depression, relationships and even the brain itself. Then the science became more complicated. We follow mindfulness research from the excitement of early brain-imaging studies through the replication and...
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Episode 14 — The Invisible Conversation Between You and an Animal
What really happens between two nervous systems when a human and an animal simply spend time together? We follow a decade of research from the famous “love hormone” explanation of human–dog bonding to a much richer picture involving heart-rate variability, stress regulation and physiological...
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S1E13 - Love After Loss - Continuing Bonds With Animals
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S1E11 - Awe Nature and the More-Than-Human World
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S1E10 - Animals Meaning and the Sacred Ordinary
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S1E9 - When an Animal Becomes Part of Your Soul Story
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S1E8 - Your Brain Is Not Separate From Your Body
Episode Notes The Spruce Podcast. Your Brain Is Not Separate From Your Body. We talk about the brain constantly. The anxious brain. The autistic brain. The ADHD brain. The traumatised brain. The creative brain. And sometimes our language makes it sound as though the brain is a small person…
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S1E7 - Why Making Art Can Change a State
Episode Notes The Spruce Podcast. Why Making Art Can Change a State. There is a particular kind of relief that can happen when the hands become busy. A pen moves across paper. Paint spreads into water. A repeated pattern grows. A line bends around another line. Nothing important has been solved....
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S1E6 - What Ten Minutes of Mindfulness Can Change
Episode Notes The Spruce Podcast. What Ten Minutes of Mindfulness Can Change. Mindfulness is often presented as something large. A practice. A lifestyle. A commitment. Something involving cushions, retreats, or twenty minutes of silence twice a day. But some of the most interesting recent…
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S1E5 - Mindfulness Does Not Have to Mean Calm
Episode Notes The Spruce Podcast. Mindfulness Does Not Have to Mean Calm. There is a subtle trap hidden inside mindfulness. We begin because we want to feel better. Then we sit quietly. And we don't feel better. Perhaps we notice irritation. Restlessness. Pain. Noise. Thoughts becoming louder...
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S1E4 - ADHD and the Rhythm of Attention
Episode Notes The Spruce Podcast. ADHD and the Rhythm of Attention. We often talk about attention as though it were a spotlight. Either it is pointing at the right thing or it isn't. But inside the brain, attention is also rhythmic. Neural populations produce repeating patterns of electrical...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Spruce Podcast is a thoughtful personal briefing on the mind, meaning, creativity and connection. Episodes explore ideas from neuroscience, psychology, mindfulness, neurodiversity, trauma and wellbeing, alongside creativity, art, spirituality, animals and the quieter questions that shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. Expect calm, curious conversations, interesting new research, practical ideas and occasional reflections designed to be easy to listen to while walking, travelling or getting everyday tasks done.
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WhisperKind
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The Spruce Podcast is a thoughtful personal briefing on the mind, meaning, creativity and connection. Episodes explore ideas from neuroscience, psychology, mindfulness, neurodiversity, trauma and wellbeing, alongside creativity, art, spirituality, animals and the quieter questions that shape how we...
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The Spruce Podcast is created and hosted by WhisperKind.
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