Ep 030: How to bring your clown to Christmas and live a little lighter, with clown-o-therapist Holly Stoppit

<p>Right now (in the UK, anyway) it feels like we're living in a Grinch-like tale called 'The Year That Cancelled Christmas'... which is why I'm so excited to bring you today's guest, clown, drama therapist and theatre director Holly Stoppit. </p> <p>She offers up such hope, and joy, about how we can find a lightness amid adversity, by tuning into our inner clown (we all have one, she says). </p> <p>Listen to this and you'll be inspired to approach this Christmas (and life, in general) with your inner clown in tow, with curiosity and questions rather than answers.</p> <p>You'll discover the transformative power in looking things differently when they go tits up (which they inevitably will, in my house anyway).</p> <p>Clowns, she says, are experts in 'teetering on the verge of flop with joy'; they want, expect and embrace when things go wrong because that is the moment when they really connect with their audience. If we channel our inner clown that is also the moment we can really connect with our loved ones, in our bubbles, this Christmas.</p> <p>Wishing you a big, juicy, creative, flop-filled Christmas!</p> <p>If you enjoy this podcast – please pass it on – share it with anyone who could do with this boost this Christmas as it's just me that does everything to do with this podcast, so you are my marketing team! And I'm so grateful for all the listens, comments, reviews and love. Thank you so much for listening in my launch year. </p> <p>References:</p> <p>Holly Stoppit's Ted Talk: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH11d7YNVNQ">how clowning can lead to connection</a></p> <div class="gmail_default">Holly on Facebook: <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/hollystoppitworkshops" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/hollystoppitworkshops&source=gmail&ust=1608816495431000&usg=AFQjCNH6rrAtDeEIHy_GbOjG8E-36jzHNA"> https://www.facebook.com/<wbr />hollystoppitworkshops</a> </div> <div class="gmail_default"> </div> <div class="gmail_default">The cl