Tag: mental health
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Future Focus
This guided meditation is all about the future and getting some focus on where you’re going. The idea of this is that if we can visualise our future, we’re much more able to consciously create it. This guided meditation was written for one of our Powerful Pause meditation sessions, where we come together to meditate…
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What to Do Between Acting Jobs
Four ways to stay active as an actor between roles. For years, I’ve been struck by how actors grapple with the period between acting jobs. When we’re looking for our next job, we can be plagued by self-doubt, loss of confidence and sometimes all-out depression. More than a few actors start to feel so low that…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Energy
In this guided meditation we tap into the energy of our senses. This mindfulness practice is all about pointing our attention towards different senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, and our thoughts. This practice can really help us to find some calm and relaxation during our day. This guided meditation was written for one of…
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Staying Empowered Throughout Your Acting Career
Eight principles and actionable habits to help steer you towards an empowered frame of mind. Empowerment: The feeling of control over the course of our lives. The belief our actions can create the results we desire. Empowerment is a wonderful word and a powerful concept. But is it something we can apply to an acting career? Where…
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Imposter Syndrome and How to Manage It
Spotlight’s Mental Health and Wellbeing manager explains what imposter syndrome is and offers techniques to help you deal with it. Imposter syndrome is one of the most common topics that I coach performers on. I’m fascinated by it – having also struggled with it myself for many years. Feelings of uncertainty are an expected and…
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Looking After Yourself When Writing
Award-nominated writer and theatre-maker, Alexandra Donnachie, shares her top tips for looking after yourself and those around you during the writing process, from page to stage. Our industry has made huge progress in safeguarding artists and audiences, but as a writer-performer, I’ve found there can be a significant lack of consideration for my wellbeing when…
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Performer Parent Online Coffee Mornings
We’ve partnered with Parents and Carers in Performing Arts to run a new wellbeing initiative for Spotlight members who are also parents, guardians or carers. Coffee & Connect is a great way to meet other performer parents, ask questions, learn new things, share experiences, and of course to have coffee (bring your own!). We’ve put together some FAQs…
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Dealing with Self-pity
Six tips to help you stave off self-pity when you receive a knockback. Let me start by declaring that I am the biggest self-pitier of them all. However ‘woe is me’ you think you are, I’m ‘woe-ier’ and ‘me-ier’. My long-suffering partner deserves an MBE for her patience in the face of the whinging bin-fire…
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How to be a Confident and Resilient Young Performer
Understanding what resilience means for children and tips for how to handle auditions, feedback and social media. As adults we are familiar with the term ‘resilience’ but it’s important to understand that resilience for a child looks quite different from the resilience for an adult. At our recent Wellbeing Series panel, actor Emily Carey, agent…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Togetherness
Inspired by the tragic events in Ukraine, this meditation focusses on togetherness and how it makes us stronger and more resilient. This 30 minute meditation by Spotlight’s Mental Health and Wellbeing manager, Bea Grist, is inspired by the idea of togetherness and what gets created when we come together. It’s designed to calm and soothe…