S2 E12: January self-care package

New year, same dressing room, and this week Alex and Helen have a double bill for you.

To start, they discuss the seasonal nature of the career as a performer and how it often involves intense periods of work (like Christmas!) followed by intense periods of quiet (did someone say January blues?). They suggest using your off-season to reflect, plan and work on personal development as well as managing your on-season in order to avoid three months of chaotic work without a break.

Following that, they offer you a January self-care package. With the seasonal nature of the career in mind they understand that January can be a difficult time for many performers and so they suggest:

• Let the Christmas cheer spill over!

Why does all the fun have to stop as soon as we hit January 1st? January can often be cold, dark and difficult, why not warm it up with a nice cheese board and mulled wine with friends? Use the January downtime for things you won’t be able to do in the busier months, whether that be visiting family, reading or cooking.

• Let yourself cocoon

Christmas can be an intense period for performers so recognise if your body needs to rest and LISTEN! Give yourself the time to recover that you deserve. Others may be setting intense goals and attempting to follow resolutions but it’s important not to compare. The seasonal nature of the performing career is unique, let your body tell you what it needs.

• Manifest 2022

Alex and Helen like manifesting because it isn’t goal-bound or time-bound. It uses your imagination and gives you a creative opportunity to consider your future. Ask yourself where you’d like to be at the end of 2022 and see what your brain throws up! Do you like what you see? Can you make decisions which align with that manifestation in order to help bring you closer to that ideal?

Episode edited and produced by Daisy Grant Productions.

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