What can creative expression do for us spiritually and emotionally? - “Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.” – Julia Cameron. / Actor Kristin Bauer has been drawing and painting since around age twelve. “I have kept it up out of pleasure and also a needed sanctuary from the harder parts of life.”
Claire Danes notes, like many artists, she was "a strange girl and I was in a lot of pain because of that, like most teenagers.” ... “My therapist gives me permission to accept that I’m human.”
"There's no way I'm going to put my kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?" - Rosanna Arquette // Psychologist Mihaela Ivan Holtz notes "for you, the creative or the performer, knowing how to work with rejection is almost a career requirement!"
Jodie Foster started as an actor at age 3. She says “I prioritize my self-worth and psychological health above all. If not, I don’t know where I would be today. I mean, there is a carpet of ex-child actors who did not make it”
Gloria Reuben commented: "I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!”
Creative people experience a wide range and depth of emotions to create. How can we work with such strong feelings and stay balanced?
Psychologist Sharon Barnes notes: for "highly creative, acutely aware, highly sensitive, intense or gifted people, your emotions often come faster and harder, are more pervasive and more intense than others."
Modern society asks us to violate two Taboos: “Don’t Feel” and “Don’t Talk about how you feel”. Work with your strong feelings to stay balanced. Feel sad. Feel mad. Feel guilty!
"Cut off from your creative expression, you find yourself angry and frustrated that you can’t escape the anxiety or the depression... What can you do to escape it? Should you escape? What if you lose your creativity?"
"Being creative is your life...At the same time, you are scared and terrified by this career. It’s a fine balance between keeping yourself grounded and slipping into the territory of insecurity."
"In some ways therapy helps more than acting class. You realize why you operate in certain ways.”
"Psychotherapy is a powerful transformative journey that can take you from feeling unhappy and stuck to living with emotional freedom as a fulfilled creative or performer."
"This mix of fear and courage can take you right to where you hope to be – that emotional space where your feelings blend just beautifully in a powerful mix, you flow into your performance."
Mental health issues affect almost I in 5 people each year. Being a creative person can increase our vulnerability to emotional challenges like anxiety.
Whether it's feedback you asked for, a remark from an audience or a ‘no’ at an audition, criticism and rejection are part of life for actors and performers.
Emily Fletcher – founder of Ziva Meditation – notes “Stress is actually keeping you from performing at the top of your game.
“I tend to work with a lot of high performers.
“My CEO clients will say ‘Emily, my stress is the thing that gives me my cutting edge, that’s the thing that keeps me, you know, competitive and in the game’ – and my actors will say to me, ‘Emily, I need my stress…this is where my art comes from.’
“But here’s the news – stress is not helping you in the performance department.
“I’m not crazy, I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years.” Ouiser Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine) in Steel Magnolias. // "Pretending to be happy and trying too hard to be positive can be a defense against facing what’s really going on in your life." Psychologist Mihaela Ivan Holtz
“You have to stay strong...especially in this business…so many amazing actresses get taken advantage of." Vanessa Hudgens | Psychologist Mihaela Ivan Holtz affirms “you can create your successful career without compromising your emotional integrity."
“Actors and actresses, because that’s their career, can be sort of self-obsessed.” Kristen Bell
Ben Affleck admitted, “It’s a nightmare. Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don’t like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.”
You've got to find a way to hang on...I know it's cliche, but time does heal all wounds. This article is a great read for those who are dogged with #Depression. #MentalHealth #CreativeMind #KateSpade #AnthonyBourdain
We all experience some trauma in life; how do people use these experiences in their creative work to help recover self esteem, emotional balance and mental health?
“I think I’ve spent my adult life dealing with the sense of low self-esteem that sort of implanted in me. Somehow I felt not worthy.” Halle Berry
"The Healing Trauma Summit starting June 4, 2018 presents 24 Online Training Sessions on Advances in Neuroscience, Spiritual Psychology, and Embodied Approaches to Heal & Transform Trauma -- Whether you're a therapist, supporting a loved one, or in the recovery process yourself."
“Fear of failing, fear of rejection, fear of being shamed… they are all normal fears that can interfere with your creativity when they are turned from normal into paralyzing fears, freezing instead of energizing your creativity.”
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