The Conscious Actor

by Bonnie Katz, MA Fresh Start Looking back over the past year, the challenges of being in the acting profession may have taken you on a roller coaster ride of emotions from exhilaration to exhaustion. Actors must balance several jobs in order to survive financially,...

The Conscious Actor

by Bonnie Katz, MA Having grown up In New York, I can remember how the City would magically transform during the Holiday Season into a visual delight. Her harsh edginess would soften under a white blanket of snow, and the loud honking horns of the taxis would be...

The Conscious Actor

by Bonnie Katz, MA THANKS FOR LIVING “Forever on Thanksgiving Day, the heart will find the Pathway home.”                    -Wilbur D. Nesbit Twenty four days left till Thanksgiving, and some of you might have the ‘f’ word on your minds…family.  We can...

The Conscious Actor

by Bonnie Katz, MA Callbacks Nature knows instinctively when it’s time to let go and allow the leaves to fall away. There aren’t any loud noises that catch your attention; it’s a quiet thing. You might feel a little change in the weather and then look up and notice...

The Conscious Actor

by Bonnie Katz, MA Has This Ever Happened To You? It was a beautiful California day with the sunshine bouncing off of everything.  One of those days when you have a spring in your step and everything feels all right in the world.  I pulled out of a gas station,...

The Conscious Actor

by Bonnie Katz, MA The Mental Muscle Work-out I had my brain changed on Thursday night.  Or, at least that was what Dr. Daniel J. Siegel told an audience of psychotherapists as he led us in a series of mental exercises during a lecture at U.C.L.A.   Dr. Siegel, a...