Dr. Daisy Fancourt

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445 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz · Why Creativity Belongs in Your Health Routine with Dr. Daisy Fancourt · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

Having that regular class once a week is a brilliant way because it's giving you that structure to it.

And of course, as you're learning the craft, you're not just having the in the moment benefit experience, but you're also building up a kind of a new skill.

And this is really important in terms of self-esteem, a sense of mastery, which is one of our core psychological building blocks that we crave.

It's a core psychological need for us as humans.

So even though it can sound so small, like feeling a sense of mastery in a new craft, that can actually be what you need for your own mental wellbeing.

That can be sufficient to actually initially kickstart that psychological need.

But it can also be really important for identity.

And I think this is something, again, that we often overlook.

Our identities are often founded on our work or a family role, for example.

And often we only have a couple of identities that we actually feel we hold.

And the challenge with this is that if you have a threat to one of those identities, like your work starts to go badly or even you're transitioning out of work and retiring, then that can have a really profound psychological impact.

And actually, when people pick up a new hobby, like you're joining that choir and you're now a singer or you're a knitter,

That small extra identity is actually something that can help build your psychological resilience.

It's a buffer when we face threats to other identities.

We've actually got these other ones.

There are other parts to us.

So a threat to another part of our life doesn't undermine our whole sense of self.

This is interesting.

It's a really emerging area, but it's one where there's some really fascinating results starting to come through.

So some of these have looked at symptoms like brain fog and have actually shown that, again, regular arts engagement is something that can actually help to activate particular regions of the prefrontal cortex that are involved in the brain and things like problem solving and reasoning and other aspects of executive functioning.

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