Content Warning: Eating Disorders, Mental Health “I hate my body.” Our surveys about body image (one for performers, one for the general public) received 243 responses. And, reading them, this statement jumped out at me multiple times. On one level it’s become normalised to throw phrases like this out when bonding with our friends over…
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Talking Body Image with a Wellbeing Expert
Content Warning: Eating Disorders, Anxiety and Depression Lou Irvine is a wellbeing facilitator with a radical and exciting approach. Coming from a background of stand-up comedy, Lou’s social enterprise Wellbeing Rebels is all about self-care that is human, realistic, and celebrates the resilience people already have. Lou talks frankly in this interview about her own…
Talking Body Image with a Life Coach
Lorna Lythgoe is the founder of the Good Life School, self-described ‘natural born geek’ and teacher, life/career coach and trainee therapist. She guides people to explore what it means to live well. In her words: ‘aiming to lighten the load of emotional and psychological anguish that so many of us seem to carry, leading to brighter, kinder, happier…
Starting the Story: Imagined Bodies
Hi! I’m Kat. Imagined Bodies – the circus film we are currently working on – is not just about me, but in a world where it really matters which direction you’re approaching things from, I want to tell you who I am before we get into the complicated world of body image and circus over…
Circus in the Time of Corona
Well. It will be no big news to you that things are a little different to how they were. We’ve never heard the word ‘unprecedented’ used so many times. Our landscape has dramatically shifted in a matter of days, and most of us can’t imagine things ever going back to ‘normal’ again. For us, a…
Wasting Time or Improving Minds? Yoga and Circus at work.
This had us chuckling the other day. It’s a pretty fair point – poor mental health is often a direct result of our circumstances and until those circumstances (like working conditions) change then there is only so far movement and meditation can help to improve everyday life. Yoga is seen as the tiny plaster papering…
How we started
Think Circus was officially registered as a company in August 2016, and began trading on 1st April 2017. Our first year saw the following achievements: Circus Science Workshops developed and performed at Glasgow Science Festival Circus Science Show performed at the Institute of Physics’ Festival of Physics Team building workshops delivered for Sustrans Scotland and…
The Beginning
The story of Think Circus begins with a tantrum. The tantrum thrown by me, Kat, as I tried to learn circus skills for the first time. ‘This is stupid. I’m not doing it!’ I shouted as I threw the juggling balls across the room in frustration. Then suddenly, it was as if I could see…