Developing Your Emotional Health: The Compact Guide - by Andy Barker & Brian Cooley & Beth Wood Paperback

Book Synopsis

This practical, empowering guide provides performers and creatives with a toolkit of techniques to improve, manage and maintain good emotional wellbeing - helping you navigate and overcome the pressures and demands of a career in the arts.

Inside, you'll find key, evidence-based concepts and ideas about emotional health, as well as the benefits of taking a holistic approach to your brain, imagination and body. There are dozens of creative exercises and meditations to help you build resilience, develop your emotional intelligence, reframe negative thoughts, stay motivated, and embrace change when it comes. You'll also discover strategies for tackling auditions, preparing for performances and coping with periods of unemployment, plus guidance on creating your own personalised emotional health plan.

Invaluable for anyone working in the creative industries, this book will equip you to assume responsibility for your own emotional wellbeing, and pursue your passion whilst still enjoying a life of fulfilment and satisfaction.

Review Quotes

'An extremely interesting and useful book for anyone in a creative role... this small and light paperback can be easily transported about with you, and just dipping into any page may well be rewarding... an excellent addition to the material currently available on the subject. It is written in a chatty and approachable style, and the bitesize structure is perfect for reading on the go'

--Broadway World

'A practical, accessible, friendly book with the potential to support anyone whose emotional health could, potentially, be challenged'

--Ink Pellet magazine

About the Author

Andy Barker, Brian Cooley and Beth Wood have all worked in the arts in various roles, including as actors, writers, directors and stage managers. Together, Andy and Brian run Mind Fitness, an organisation dedicated to developing mental health and wellbeing and business effectiveness, and Beth is Artistic Director of Prospero Theatre Company.