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Performing with Resilience: Nurturing Mental Health and Emotional Wellness in the Entertainment Industry

by Aryn Mott
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781041125105
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 292
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 581 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Theater / Direction & Production

Performing with Resilience provides essential guidance for performers, educators, and industry professionals on sustaining mental health in the demanding entertainment industry.

The book explores the psychological, emotional, and physiological challenges artists face and presents evidence-based strategies, practical exercises, and industry best practices to promote resilience, safety, and well-being. Blending neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience, this book reveals how creativity and care can work together rather than against each other. It offers practical tools for emotional regulation, boundary-setting, and recovery, turning complex research into language that artists can use in auditions, rehearsals, classrooms, and everyday life. The book provides strategies to manage emotional intensity, stress, and burnout; tools for setting boundaries and ensuring psychological safety; and science-backed approaches to emotional regulation and nervous system support. It also advocates for safe mental health practices and systematic industry changes to support the well-being of the artists.

Unlike existing books that focus solely on technique or psychological resilience, this book integrates real-world industry insights, cutting-edge research, and practical, actionable tools tailored for actors, directors, and all members of the creative process. This book is written for actors, directors, mental health coordinators, intimacy coordinators, acting coaches, and drama educators.

For free resources and resilience tools, visit www.vancityic.com and follow @vancityic for daily practices that support mental health in artistic spaces.

Aryn Mott is Canada's first certified Mental Health and Intimacy Coordinator, one of the first 50 SAG-AFTRA-approved intimacy coordinators worldwide, and a proud UBCP/ACTRA member. They infuse every collaboration with vibrant professionalism, bridging psychology and performance to foster authentic storytelling. Their expertise is unparalleled, with 500+ hours of Intimacy Training, 3,600+ hours of on-set experience, an SAG-AFTRA-accredited IC training program, and over 18 years in Film, TV, and Theatre. They prioritize a consent-based, embodied approach, evidenced by an impressive portfolio of over 100 credits in Intimacy Coordination, Mental Health, and Performance. Notable projects include Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Shroenbrun/TUBI), Harmonia (Guy Nattiv), Shogun S1 (FX/HULU), SUITS LA, Death and Other Details (HULU) and Lunar Sway.

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