Category: Lifestyle & Wellbeing
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An Actor’s Story: Understanding Mental Illness
As part of our series for Mental Health Awareness Week, we spoke to two actors about their personal experience with mental health concerns, and the psychological impact of being an actor. Here is the first in the series. Mental health issues were present in my family with depression and anxiety. My brother set up the…
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The Foundations of Good Mental Health
Setting the tone for resilience this Mental Health Awareness Week The “bottom of the pyramid” according to Carol Chapman, registered Psychologist and Performance Coach, centres around lifestyle choices and self-awareness. “Basic lifestyle is really important [for] just maintaining a basic level of mood.” Getting those fundamentals right is essential to good health in general, and…
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An Actor’s Guide to Keeping Positive During Part Time Work
It can be challenging to keep a positive mindset when splitting your time, something actor Katie Redford knows well – here are her top tips for keeping positive while you support your craft. I remember when I landed my first acting job. My mum invited the grandparents round, put a buffet on and as she popped…
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An Actor’s Guide To Procrastination: How To Make The Most Of Your Time
Ah, hello 7.30am! You came around a bit too quickly for my liking, you little rascal you. Spring out of bed. Pop on Chris Evans on Radio 2. (Aaaand I’ve turned into my Dad.) Jump in the shower. Make some porridge. My Friday morning is already looking as fresh as an Activia advert. Grab my…
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How to Stay Proactive When You’re Skint
When I was in my third year of drama school, a casting director advised me above all else to ‘Do three things a day that make you feel like you’re an actor. Especially when you’re not working.’ At the time, I met this comment with side eye and bemusement. Of COURSE I was going to feel…
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An Actor’s Guide to Surviving January
Jesus, I’m craving another Lindor. And a job. Happy New Year, actors! I had this image in my mind that I’d wake up on the first day of the new year and start as I meant to go on; go for a run, sip green tea and write a goals list for the year ahead.…
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How to Survive Pilot Season
It’s a well known fact that Los Angeles is the mecca for television, and the birthplace of the majority of our favourite series, but the actors on those shows all have something in common; most of their careers skyrocketed because of pilot season. Living in Los Angeles as an actor you quickly become accustomed to the…
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Keeping Busy Outside of Acting
Domenique Fragale trained at Arts Educational Schools and recently moved to the United States to work in Los Angeles. Here, she discusses how actors can keep mentally and physically healthy outside of work. It’s easy to let your mind work in over drive and become swamped in anxiousness as to when that next audition or acting job will come (believe…