Creativity Cures the Mind
From depression to trauma, singer-songwriter turned behavioral scientist Dr. Tasha Golden has found strength through creativity. In this podcast, she talks about how you can tap into your own creative resources to heal your own mental health challenges.
[00:00:00] Stephen Calabria: From the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, this is Road to Resilience, a podcast about facing adversity. I'm your host Stephen Calabria, Mount Sinai's Director of Podcasting.
[00:00:12] On this episode we welcome Tasha Golden, PhD. Dr. Golden is a singer-songwriter turned-public health scientist who most recently served as the Director of Research at the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
[00:00:26] Dr. Golden has led pivotal research into how art and creativity may affect individuals' health and well-being. This includes her founding of Project Uncaged, a trauma-informed creative writing program for incarcerated girls. We're honored to have Dr. Tasha Golden on the show.
[00:00:43] Dr. Tasha Golden, welcome to Road to Resilience.
[00:00:49] Tasha Golden: Thank you for having me.
[00:00:51] Stephen Calabria: To kick us off, who is Tasha Golden?
[00:00:56] Tasha Golden: Well, the quickest intro that I can give is that I am a singer songwriter turned public health scientist, mashing my worlds together to try to help people. People understand how creativity and support well being and help create a better world for all of us.
[00:01:12] Stephen Calabria: Now you started off as a singer songwriter. So if you would, for those of us who have never been rock stars, help put us in the headspace. Is it as romantic a life as everyone thinks to be a young professional musician?
[00:01:27] Tasha Golden: I feel like I want to answer both yes and no. Um, it's not what I imagined it being. Like, this is the job that I wanted to be, like, this is what I wanted to do since I was a really little girl. I wanted to write songs and travel the world and play them for audiences.
[00:01:43] And I will say that it was as romantic as I thought that it would be in the sense that doing something that you care about, I had a lot of autonomy and a lot of sense of, I can kind of go where I want and explore this the way that I want to.