My Favorite Bit of Information From The Week: Thankfulness Journal I’m not a person who journals naturally. But lately, I have been writing down three things I am thankful for/looking forward to in my day. I do this at the start of my morning and it has been helping me …
Hello!
For those of you who are new, this is a community for my play One Woman Hamlet: Shake(speare) The Stigma Surrounding Mental Health. However, this is also a community where I share some of the amazing information that I’ve unearthed on mental health during the preparation for the show. I wrote this blog in the year and a half surrounding the first staging of the play in January of 2020. The blog organically came to an end during the pandemic. During this time, we created the film version of One Woman Hamlet.
To be the first to hear about One Woman Hamlet updates, shows, and community opportunities please E-mail me! onewomanhamlet@gmail.com
-Kate
Week Forty-Seven
My Favorite Bit of Information From The Week: Andrew Solomon on Depression, The Secret That We Share. This week is relatively simple. I listened to this Ted Talk from Andrew Solomon entitled Depression, The Secret That We Share and it really affected me and sat with me. He is intense, but he …
Week Forty-Six
My Favorite Bit of Information From The Week: Happy (slightly belated) Veterans Day!This week is dedicated to all the Veterans out there and their loved ones. I hope you all had a supportive and beautiful Veterans Day. It’s no secret – and yet we rarely talk about it – that …
Week Forty-Five
My Favorite Bit of Information From The Week: The Polyvagal Theory Please check out my previous posts on the vagus nerve, and it’s connections to touch, because this week I want to introduce you to the Polyvagal Theory and how it connects to trauma. You have probably heard the term “fight or flight” and how …
Week Forty-Four
My Favorite Bit of Information From The Week: Touch The vagus nerve – as well as my history with “not always wanting to be touched” – led me down an interesting road this past week. The vagus nerve (the longest nerve in the body, with the primary function of slowing down and soothing the nervous …
Week Forty-Three
My Favorite Bit of Information From The Week: The Vagus Nerve It was recently brought to my attention that I hum or sing when I am stressed. It always calms me down, but for some reason, I never stopped to wonder why. So I did some research and it led to the …
Week Forty-Two
KindnessThe amount of support that has been shown to me throughout this project, but especially recently with the fundraiser and the show dates has been overwhelming – in a really good way. But often, it’s hard to accept that sort of generosity, it’s a lot of beautiful support coming at …
Week Forty-One
My Favorite Bit of Information From The Week: We Are All A Bit “Crazy”The Tedtalk Strange Answers To The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson was one of the first conversations that ever piqued my interest about the stigma on mental health, although I don’t think I could have quite articulated why at …
Week Forty
Update On My Show And My Favorite Bit of Information! This week – in honor of my fortieth week of sending these E-mails – I have decided to combine my update and my favorite bit of information for the week. Drum roll, please… One Woman Hamlet is officially set up for it’s fundraiser on Oct. 26th 2019!!! …
Week Thirty-Nine
My Favorite Bit of Information From The Week: Perfection and Sisyphus I recently found this Ted Med on Perfectionism and how it is affecting our mental health and it really hit home for me. Here is the breakdown of the talk: “Social psychologist Thomas Curran explores how the pressure to be perfect — …