Developing Your Emotional Health: The Compact Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848429703)

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.

Author: Andy Barker, Brian Cooley, Beth Wood
ISBN-10: 1848429703
ISBN-13: 9781848429703
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 6.93h x 4.33w x 0.79d