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Dr. Marina A. Smirnova was born on Sakhalin island (the Far East of Russia), and, over twenty years ago, immigrated to the United States. Her journey has been enriched by earning a Bachelor degree in Music Education (Minsk State Pedagogical University, 1996), a Master of Arts degree in Counseling (Central Michigan University, 2003), and a PhD degree in Psychology, with Transpersonal Psychology Concentration (Sofia University, formerly Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 2013).   In 2013, she began her contribution to Saybrook. In 2016, she became Assistant Program Director for the Department of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology (HCP); in 2017--an Interim Psychology Chair (HCP). Currently, she serves as a Full Professor of Psychology and oversees as a Coordinator and teaches in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health (CSIH) Specialization. She describes herself as an author, an intuitive, a contemplative, a creative, and a hermit.  
Outside of the halls of academia, she applies her intuitive healing gifts to support spiritual and attitudinal vitality of adults who are questing for healing, soulful sovereignty, fulfillment, embodied joy, and longevity.  
In this episode, Dr. Marina A. Smirnova joins hosts Whitney Ann Jenkins and Amanda Beck to discuss following your calling, expanded states of consciousness, creating a container for rest, nourishment, and alignment as an artist, and more.

We further explore defining Creativity and use the psychological framework of the 4P's: person, process, press, and product, to analyze how it applies to performers.
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Hosts Amanda Beck and Whitney Ann Jenkins discuss and challenge the Starving Artist archetype alongside concepts from Humanistic Psychology.
In this episode they discuss the definitions of Creativity and Flow according to psychology and the gaps in understanding that remain.
Whitney Ann Jenkins is a mindful and reflective creative: an actress, singer-songwriter, voice-over artist, and writer.
As host and creator of the podcast Unconditioning: Discovering the Voice Within, she holds space for conversations that explore the conscious awareness of the inner authentic voice and is an advocate for the power of storytelling and its ability to connect us, globally and universally; believing that every human on the planet has an interesting story of value.
Whitney Ann is a certified Energy Healer and Reiki Master, Volunteer Crisis Counselor, and Integrative Wellness Coach, pursuing her PhD in Humanistic Psychology with a focus specifically on the boundaries and mental wellness of performing artists.
Amanda Beck is an artist of various forms: actress, writer, and arts-based researcher.
Later this year (2023), author will be added to that roster as she publishes her first novel. Being the first book of a dystopian trilogy centered around a young girl who finds herself having to find new meaning to her fears in order to get off an island, it captures the essence of her research on the relationship between anxiety and creativity as she pursues her PhD in Humanistic Psychology.
Amanda is also a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach who aims at shifting the paradigm to how we view our wellness into one that “romanticizes our health” and trusting that our desires are a divine and essential guide in living our happiest, healthiest, most fulfilled lives.
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Hosts Amanda Beck and Whitney Ann Jenkins introduce Entertaining the Light, a podcast where they discuss holistic wellness in the performing arts and challenge the Starving Artist archetype alongside concepts from Humanistic Psychology.
 
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