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Our Next Show!

Join us at the Bedford, a stunning pub and live events venue in Balham, on Sunday 3rd November, for an evening of burlesque and cabaret – all themed around mental health, as always.

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 by Rosalind Pearl

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Here’s to sensual, messy Fridays 🥑 . 📸: @mouncealot and her new boyfriend, unwitting audience member and extremely good sport @jonnyai1990 😘 Captured by @theburlyphotographer . . . . #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthjourney #cabaret #selfcare #diyfacemask #diyavocadomask #sensualliving #fridayshenanigans #burlesque #selfcaredoesnthavetobeexpensive #selfcaretips #facemasksformen #pampersession

Do you know about the Spoon Theory? Scroll down for an explanation from artist @colourblind_zebra ⬇️ 🥄🥄🥄 It’s a way people with #chronicillness explain their conditions to their healthy friends, and has become a shorthand among the community for talking about energy supply. Hence many #chronicallyill folk now call themselves #spoonies! 🥄🥄🥄 Even if you don’t feel it fits for you, the Spoon Theory can be helpful when in an anxious, depressive, or any other episode that drains you. You have to work within your limitations while your body recovers. If you’ve ever struggled to understand or accept this in yourself or explain it to others, you may be in need of some spoons! . . #Repost @colourblind_zebra ・・・ What is The Spoon Theory? . . The Spoon Theory was born when Christine Miserandino was asked by her friend what it was like to live with Lupus. Looking around for something to help her explain, she picked up all of the spoons she could and laid them in front of her friend. She explained that being sick means you constantly have to make choices and realise how those decisions may affect your health . . Christine asked her friend to name the things she would usually do in a day and that each task would use up one of the spoons in front of her. This showed perfectly how someone who has a chronic condition has to navigate each day; making sure not to use up too many spoons, having to spend days recovering if they do and how healthy people don't even have to consider how taking a shower could prevent them from going out or even getting out of bed for a week . . [CC: A rainbow spoon in a fluffy white cloud with the title “The Spoon Theory” written in black letters. The image is surrounded by other white clouds floating on a gradient rainbow background] . . #spoontheory #spooniestrong #spooniememe #spooniesunite #spoonie #chronicillnessawareness #chronicillnesslife #flareup #fibromyalgia #autoimmunedisease #invisibleillness #chronicinsta #chronicfatiguesyndrome #mecfs #endometriosis #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthwarrior #invisibledisability #invisibleillnessawareness

As it’s #BlueMonday, we couldn’t go without sending some love to our gorgeous performer sister... @bluemonday.exe! Yes, she’s named after this hoax of a day, satirising how consumerist society uses #mentalhealth as a way to get us to buy more. We can’t wait to bring back her #MaterialGirl act! In the meantime, please enjoy these gorgeous aesthetics and dulcet tones. We love you girl! 💙💙💙 . . . #bluemonday💙 #bluemondaymood #performer #performerchallenge #performerartistchallenge #singer #chanteuse #marilynmonroecosplay #marilynmonroecostume #mentalhealthart #artformentalhealth #performanceart #burlesque #womensupportingwomen #lifteachotherup

We're so excited to announce we're launching our performer workshops in February! We've just sent our very first newsletter about it too... if you’ve ever emailed us about being involved in an Invisible Cabaret show, the email should now be in your inbox - if not, please check your spam/junk folder! And if we’ve made it into there somehow (rude), please add us to your contacts so we’ll turn up in the right place next time - much obliged 😘 We’re hoping these newsletters will be a monthly affair, filled with our news plus a curated selection of content from the world of #mentalhealth and the #arts. If you'd like to stay in the loop, DM us your email address, or head to our website and use the sign-up form there ❤️ . . . #mentalhealthnewsletter #mentalhealthawareness #performerlife #burlesque #performer #performerartistchallenge #performerchallenge #performers

Repeat after us...⠀ ⠀ There are lots of reasons why we need to rest. Physical fatigue, little or unrestorative sleep, illness (chronic or ‘Muggle’), mental exhaustion from a tough day, or even from low-level trauma which is stuck in the body and is keeping you on fight-or-flight.⠀ ⠀ In our capitalist society where worth is measured by productivity, rest can feel like giving in, failing. We give ourselves the hardest time, guilt tripping, calling ourselves names like ‘lazy’, ‘useless’, ‘incapable.’ So even when we let ourselves ‘rest’, our mind is hard at work berating us, running through all the things we should be doing and have left to do. And if the mind is whirring processes of guilt and stress, you can be sure that’s manifesting in your body too!⠀ ⠀ So: take a deep breath, relax your muscles, and repeat after us. You do not need to earn your rest. You deserve it as a child of the universe. You are worthy of your own compassion.⠀ ⠀ 📸: @traumaawarecare ❤️⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ID: the background is a photograph of brightly-coloured flowers, predominantly orange and blue. On top of this is write writing which says ‘You do not need to earn your rest.’⠀ ⠀ #SelfCompassion #MentalHealth #InvisibleIllness #InvisibleDisability #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #HealingFromTrauma #TraumaRecovery #PTSDRecovery #TMS #MindBodyHealing

This is your seasonal #LoveIsland reminder that bodies come in all shapes and sizes and colours and abilities and flavours - and they are ALL worthy of love. There is no wrong way to have a body and our loveableness is not measured by how we look in speedos or a bikini. Don’t mug yourself off. . ⠀ 📸: @stevegregsonphotos at #vaultfestival . . ID: Rosie Verbose is sitting down behind a microphone. She is midway through strumming the ukulele that is perched on her knee. She is wearing a black sequin dress, a multicoloured shawl and a brightly-coloured headpiece made of four big pom-poms. She is wearing a black wig and looking out to the audience. . . #loveislanduk #loveisland2020 #bodypositivity #realitytvrealitycheck #mentalhealth #bodyimage #positivebodyimage #bodyimagewarrior #selfesteem #selfworthmovement #selfworthjourney #youareworthy #worthyoflove #everybodyisagoodbody #beachbodyready #bodygoals #bekindtoyourmind

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