Theme for April: Mental Health Awareness
Our topic for April was to include some information on mental health in the music industry
People assume a musician’s lifestyle is glamorous and luxurious lifestyle, but we’ve opened the curtains to shed some reality on this. This month we chatted with some therapists who specifically work with creatives and our team compiled some tips on how to keep the stressors the music industry can bring at bay…
Chats with Therapists:
Crystal talks with Jodi Milstein, MA, LMFT, LPCC
Let’s talk about mental health in the music industry with Jodi Milstein, MA, LMFT, LPCC who shares her deep understanding of the stress and mental health issues that musicians and really anyone in the music industry faces.
RockStar Therapy: https://rockstartherapy.com/
Contact: https://jodimilstein.com/
Crystal talks with Elle Bernfeld, LCSW
To wrap up stress awareness month, Crystal chats with Elle Bernfeld, LCSW about her experience working with creative people and the common stressors they have to face in their work.
Elle gives some tips and advice on how creatives can best deal with this and be kinder to themselves. Also as a side note, there were a few technical difficulties in this video, so apologies, but the question Crystal asked in the middle of the interview was “How would you help a creative stay on their chosen path and meet their needs/desires?
Here is some of Elle’s work :
https://www.backstage.com/magazine/au...
Tips:
To keep your creative juices flowing!
One of the best remedies musicians can use for daily stresses is walking! It’s free, easy, and relaxing.
- Don’t spend too much time on your computer. After many hours sitting at a screen: the eyes get tired, the body feels energy-less, your legs get restless, the repetitive strain injury you did not get looked at starts nagging at your wrist and hand, the headache starts, etc
- Water helps better manage stress in musicians.One thing that is definitely worth considering is that both mental and physical performance can be negatively affected by dehydration.
- Sitting for hours is not natural for humans. It is also well known that sitting for very long periods is not ideal for us as humans. If you can, try and stand for as much time as possible, as this can help balance out the unnatural periods of sitting.
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