Navied Mahdavian

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218 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard Jun 2025

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TED Talks Daily · How can creativity help us heal? A doctor and a cartoonist answer | Amy Baxter and Navied Mahdavian · 7 Jun 2025 podcast
of our pictorial representations of happiness and sadness and whatever else in her face.
And for whatever reason, like adults don't do that anymore.
And I wondered if
Are all kids like that?
At what point do we lose that?
Because she would definitely frown.
It's exactly the full-on pat, but we don't actually see adults often with the downturn.
It's usually the comical, the expression of that, but not actually.
Because I think with our expressions and how we...
Our feelings and how we express them, I mean, often it's not really in the face that we're representing how we're feeling, right?
It's what makes it so difficult to know, like, you're speaking to somebody, like, how are they actually feeling?
Because we can mask it so well where little kids, they don't do that.
Um...
So I wrote a piece about the... I've done a couple of pieces related to grief.
One about accompanying my dad to dialysis for the first time.
And another about my grandmother, the last time I got to see her before she passed.
And in each of those... I mean, like...
Grief is complicated.
So my approach to both of them was to try to take something big and to make it simple.
And I did that by focusing on certain things.
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