HEY, ACTOR. YOU ARE SEEN.
Welcome to the Actor's Mental Health Playbook!
The online mental health course that moves actors from emotionally surviving to THRIVING in pursuit of entertainment industry careers.
In this Actor Freebie, you will have a chance to watch the first playbook lesson. Woot!
Lesson 1: Dating Hollywood
Did you know that therapy sessions run $200 - $275 for a 50-minute session? In The Actor's Mental Health Playbook, you will have access to a range of mental health educational concepts that would take months to unpack in a traditional therapy setting.
So let's get started.
CRUCIAL QUESTION #1: Did you know that you are in a relationship with your acting career?
CRUCIAL QUESTION #2: How would you describe the relationship?
In this sneak peek of the first lesson in The Actor's Mental Health Playbook, "Dating Hollywood," we will unpack the following:
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The fact that we are in a relationship with Hollywood. Yup.
- Our thoughts and feelings about how the relationship is actually going (for better or worse).
- The fact that we went into our acting careers expecting goodness.
- Considerations about how we may like to change the ways we relate to our acting careers.
WITH THE ACTOR'S MENTAL HEALTH PLAYBOOK FREEBIE, YOU WILL:
Get a taste of the "secret sauce" and mental health approach that helps move actors from emotionally surviving to THRIVING in pursuit of acting careers.
Bring awareness to the dynamics at play in an acting career and achieve a greater understanding of how we can flip the script on the relationship.
Familiarize yourself with the "feel" of the online course The Actor's Mental Health Playbook by watching the first lesson: "Dating Hollywood."
I'm Janelle
IT'S NICE TO MEET YOU.
I have been in private practice for the past 15 years and specialize in working with actors, entertainment industry professionals, and their families.
Janelle, what do you know about acting? Great question. Just like you, I’m currently doing the dang thing. And I don’t know about you, but there have been times when my acting career has kicked my ass.
In my late 20s, I booked a supporting role in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part II. Off I went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for four months to film the final installment of the film franchise, and then back to Los Angeles for two years of publicity. It was an awesome experience.
Until it wasn’t.
A few days before the premiere, I was informed that my scene was the “last scene cut” from the final edit of the film. I was no longer in the movie. This thing that I had been waiting for was gone overnight.
I was devastated. I was a mess. I was overcome with self-doubt. I had to pick up the pieces and as a result, start to think thoughtfully and intentionally about whether I even wanted to do this acting thing anymore. If getting cut from this huge franchise was just a hazard of the job, could I really hang with that? CouId I pursue an acting career and still be emotionally okay?
This is where I’d like to switch over to my therapist hat.
It has been my joy and privilege to piece together this course not only from personal experience, but also from the courageous retellings of my many acting and entertainment industry clients.
I am in the trenches with you and actively integrating my training as a therapist with my observations of the current acting landscape and tough-to-navigate realities of pursuing an acting career.
