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Channeling Creativity as a Healing Practice
SURVIVAL NOTES: Channeling Creativity as a Healing PracticeIn this episode of Survival Notes, Jonathan Murphy, PMHNP explores the intersection of creativity and advers...
Creativity, Survival, and Healing
In this deeply personal episode, psychiatric nurse practitioner Jonathan Murphy explores the paradox of creativity - how we turn something meant to be joyful into a pa...
The Creative Cheat Code: How to Use AI Without Losing Your Soul
Jon breaks down the relationship between creativity and healing, sharing his personal breakthrough with daily songwriting and how he uses AI as a tool—not a replacemen...
The Lucky Ones
Jon reflects on becoming a published author with his first book "Cheat Codes: How I Hacked My ADHD Brain" and the deeper realization that sparked the writing. From sit...
The Scapegoat's Story: Why Being the Family Outcast Saved My Life
Title: "The Scapegoat's Story: Why Being the Family Outcast Saved My Life"Description:This is raw, unfiltered, and real. Jon Murphy shares an excerpt from his memoir a...
"there's been some hyperfocus, not gonna lie"
Jon emerges from months of creative hyperfocus to give a raw update on where he's been and where Survival Notes is heading. After building out the entire Focus Path/Co...
Reducing Friction, Reclaiming Energy
In this episode of Survival Notes, Jon Murphy, PMHNP, shares a raw, reflective update on his professional evolution, creative awakening, and how lived experience infor...
All Emotions Are Normal (But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Comfortable)
In this episode, I step outside the survival mode framework to focus on a simple truth that most of us still struggle to live by: all emotions are normal.We talk about...
When Structure Feels Unsafe
Some people thrive in structure. Others feel like it exposes something. In this episode, I talk about two survival roles — the Operator and the Watcher — and how their...
General becomes the Diplomat
This episode unpacks the nervous system logic behind the Survival Code—a clinical tool designed to identify adaptive roles we play under stress.Today’s focus: when som...
You Survived. Now What?
Surviving vs. Thriving: Understanding the Difference In this first episode of , explores the core difference between surviving and thriving—and why our early group dy...