Tag: mental health
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The Wellbeing Series Reading List
Essential Books to Support Your Creative Wellbeing & Mindset. The Power of Now by Echart Tolle Echart Tolle’s bestselling book explores what it means to be more present and conscious in each moment of our lives. Written from his own personal experience, Tolle helps you to bring more awareness to your ‘chattering’ mind and explores…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Home
This meditation is themed around the idea of ‘home’ and uses the breath to anchor your awareness in the present moment. If you’re feeling like you need to take some time out to pause and reset, Bea, Spotlight’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Manager, has recorded this 20 minute meditation for you to listen to at…
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How to Handle Rejection
Rejection is unfortunately part of being an actor. We explore practices and resources to help you handle that “no”. Connect and share your feelings with another. Acting is a community and since 90% of our community are unemployed at any given time, a lot of actors are dealing with rejection too. Anyone pursuing a career…
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Dealing with Jealousy
Richard Sutton has been acting for 20 years and has had his fair share of career envy. Here he shares some techniques for how he deals with moments of jealousy. Do you remember the Roadrunner cartoons? A scabby coyote feverishly trying to kill a cocky little emu thing in all manner of sadistic and imaginative…
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Mental Health and Self-care
Navigating Mental Health & Self-Care: Advice for Working Performers. We’re joined by Bea Grist, Spotlight’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Manager, who shares practical self-care tips and information about how you can sign up for The Wellbeing Series, which is available to members. A 45-minute listen or a full transcript of the episode, can be found…
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10 Tips for Managing Stress and Anxiety
Tips to help actors manage stress and anxiety from mental health and wellbeing coach to performers, Bea Grist. Things like work, home life, family situations etc. can all contribute to feelings of stress or anxiety. Of course, the problem happens when the stress becomes too much so we asked wellbeing coach Bea Grist for some…
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The Waiting Game
Actors are used to waiting. Be it waiting to hear back from an audition or a call from your agent, but what we’re less used to is waiting to hear when we can get back to work again. Forget Boris, I’m expecting to hear about the end of this pandemic via a statement by Lord…
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Practical Self-care Tips for Your Mental Health
Tips to help take care of your mental health during these uncertain times. There is no doubt that the acting industry has seen significant changes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure of theatres has left many performers out of work and stipulations surrounding government financial support packages have meant that many actors have lost a…
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What Taking Up A Hobby Taught Me About Mental Health In The Industry
Actor and Writer, Charles White explains why having a hobby is so important for your mental health when undergoing a career as an actor. “Everybody needs a hobby” Those four words have been repeated so many times by so many different people that they’ve become like old furniture, a barely noticed feature of our collective…
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Keeping Your Identity as an Out-of-Work Performer
How to Maintain Your Creative Identity Between Acting Jobs Not being professionally successful all the time doesn’t make you any less of an artist or indeed a person. This realisation freed me and actually allowed me to enjoy dancing again. I’ve been introducing myself first and foremost as a dancer my whole life. Coming closely…