Jasmin Savoy Brown Instagram – Trust the process.
(Reference photo is by @jennysavilleofficial )
Returning to work on Yellowjackets has been daunting. 15 months elapsed between taking off and putting on Taissa and in that time I moved, mourned the death of my brother, had a full on mental health crisis, got a new therapist, starting taking anti depressants, had 2 birthdays, did some family therapy, processed family trauma, had a friendship breakup, and more 💛 That’s all to say, returning to work on a character and show that I left when I was in a place of pure survival and trauma, now in a place of ease and health, has actually been really scary. Not to mention the Lexapro! I am a new person with new brain chemistry. How will I access these dark places? How will I do it healthily? CAN I even do this anymore? It’s been a reckoning that I’m proud of actually. (And a longer convo for later on the myth that actors who are healthy people can’t do good work – it’s not true! But I did fall prey to the lie). All of this is to say! Sometimes, the way in is through a door you didn’t know existed. Be it character or therapy or a convo with your sibling or XYZ… I took a painting intensive this past weekend. Ma’am I didn’t even know I could paint??? And it healed and freed something up in me, on a visceral level. And now I finally feel like I’m realigned, or newly aligned I should say, with how to embody Taissa. And also with how to embody myself. Sometimes you can really just walk around the corner and find another door…. Or go through a window. If this resonates with you at all, lmk below? In the mood to connect as humans. I think we could all use more of that these days!!! xxx ps I will share where I took this intensive at a later date. For now it’s for me 💛 | Posted on 01/Jul/2024 15:47:47
