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Acting feels like what you’re meant to be doing on this planet. It sets your soul ablaze and puts you in your happy place. When you act you feel like you’re in ‘flow’ state. You adore interpreting and creating characters and telling a story.

Well, most of the time.

At other times you feel down-hearted and dejected. You know you have more potential within you then you’re able to express. You feel stuck and helpless when you get the same old critique from teachers. The same old rejections from self-tape submissions.

That’s when therapy which is targeted and tailor-made for artists can help. By therapy I don’t mean CBT which mostly just tackles unhelpful thinking. Acting is holistic and we need a holistic therapy that works with body, emotions and mind.

I contact the feelings of  grief, loneliness and  resentment that were out of my awareness. I need to access these in order to process them. Having access to them also lets me have more depth and range when acting. By plucking up the courage to take this detour and spend time with your pain, you too give yourself the opportunity to not only heal but to make your acting more ‘real’ and ‘true’.

I recently decided to certify as a Design Your Life coach. Why did I do this? I’d been itchy to make changes to my life for a good five years. I stumbled across the book, “Designing Your Life’ by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. I felt more and more excited as I turned the pages. The ‘design thinking’  felt original and new to me. The book was written in a down-to-earth, real way with both writers sharing vulnerable experiences and case studies and I felt energised and inspired.

I’ve become a “Coach for Actors” in addition to being a Gestalt Therapist. Why did I do this? Well, it all started in September ’22 after a failed round of IVF in Athens and a relationship break-up. 

First pubished in Elephant Journal in September 2017 A woman perched on a grey sofa screams at her therapist. The room has a large window that looks out on blue sky and sunshine. “I’ve been coming here all these years and I’m still not ok. You’re the expert with all the training! Why haven’t you […]

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