{"id":226208,"date":"2025-10-20T05:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226208\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T05:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:59:25","slug":"riot-women-on-bbc-can-punk-improve-your-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226208\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot Women on BBC: Can punk improve your mental health?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie Evans was a teenage punk who has since become a psychotherapist, using some of the lessons she learned on the scene to help others struggling with their mental health.<\/p>\n

As a teenager, she endured bullying, anxiety and depression, with her anguish at feeling like a “misfit”.<\/p>\n

In riot grrrl<\/a> – a 1990s underground feminist punk genre and movement that gave us bands like Hole and Bikini Kill – she found music that resonated with her.<\/p>\n

Sally Wainwright also took inspiration from the movement. In Riot Women, it is Violet, a song by Courtney Love’s band Hole, that Kitty (played by Rosalie Craig) sings at karaoke when she has hit rock bottom.<\/p>\n

“The quality of Courtney Love’s voice is extraordinary,” Wainwright says. “The lyrics are so spare, so explicit and so emotionally articulate.”<\/p>\n

“Riot grrrl told me you can be angry as a woman,” Evans says. “It helped me realise I was angry, and the music helped me process that.”<\/p>\n

Her experiences in the punk movement has informed her work as a psychotherapist. “A big part of therapy is around acceptance of the self.<\/p>\n

“We need to see our feelings reflected back to us to get a sense of ourselves, to feel like we’re not alone.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Evans was a teenage punk who has since become a psychotherapist, using some of the lessons she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-226208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}