I had a student I was teaching in Australia recently who had a watershed moment in his acting. And it did create a watershed. Being vulnerable might do that to you. He realized that he’s been “acting” – meaning self-generating – rather than simply being – and allowing himself to be affected in theRead more
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Nobody talks about this because I think we often feel we’re supposed to have the same feelings for something that we had when we first stumbled upon it. When something’s brand new it’s intoxicating and captivating and joy-filled. It’s almost like innocence because the discovery of things within that thing seem never-ending. A hobby.Read more
You’re good enough. Just as you are right now at this moment. Here now. You’re good enough as you are without having to change anything. You’re good enough for love. To have an amazing career. To have happiness and full self-expression. To experience the most amazing relationship. You’re good enough in the body thatRead more
Pilot season. How do you survive it? What do you do when you test for multiple roles but don’t end up getting any of them? What do you do when you see your friends going out for weekly auditions and you haven’t heard from your reps in weeks? What do you do when youRead more
Stop getting caught up in how you think things are supposed to look. Feelings. Love. Careers. Connection. Possibility. When you give up the form in which you think these things must appear, you’re instead open to the miracle of them showing up all around you all the time in ways that are a lotRead more
What if you were given the role of a Lifetime? A character that’s beautiful and dangerous and mysterious and exciting and complicated and messed up and Divinity expressed in tangible form and spectacular and empathetic and scary and . . . well . . . human? I asked an actress this and she said,Read more
Last week I discussed changing our narratives – simply the negative stories we most often tell about ourselves that no longer serve us. When we make an investment in something, we are hoping to receive a benefit at some point in the future. What if we made an investment in telling a newRead more
I didn’t even know what a narrative was in my 20’s so I think this is an important reminder for all of us. It’s simply one of the predominant stories of your life you most like to tell that threads itself into other stories that thematically become the through-line of your life. But theRead more
What are we all so scared of? Being seen? Failing? Not measuring up? Being rejected? Vulnerability? Thinking the rest of the world will see how badly we often think of ourselves? All of these qualities are part of being human and being brave enough to step out into the world with something to say.Read more
Breakthroughs in life occur at the feeling level. That’s the beginning and end of it. If we want to evolve, grow, face our fears, reach new heights, become the kind of artist we know we can become, we have to feel our way there. We have to feel things we aren’t accustomed to allowing ourselvesRead more