Bridget Moynahan on Harnessing Positive Energy and Advice to Her Younger Self

Whether or not she’s taking part in the strong-willed Erin Reagan on CBS front-runner Blue Bloods or making a comeback because the famed “20-something” from Sex and the City, there’s one thing acquainted about 51-year-old Bridget Moynahan. However make no mistake: It’s by no means too late to do one thing for the primary time.

“I got here into the enterprise at a very nice time. After I first began out, there was this taboo considering that in the event you do movies, you don’t do TV; in the event you do TV, there’s no manner you’re doing movies. And if you’re a mannequin, you possibly can’t actually be an actress. Making that leap was actually troublesome—a lot in order that I used to be tremendous aware of not taking modeling jobs in order that I may solely be seen as an actress. However the whole lot was altering on the similar time. There was full fluidity and you would leap from one platform to a different with nothing holding you again. It actually opened up roles and alternatives for girls to develop and discover all these completely different mediums.

It was a extremely profound expertise to be 50 and doing one thing new.

As a lady on this enterprise for therefore lengthy, I lastly bought the chance to direct this 12 months. It was a extremely stunning expertise to discover the completely different departments, other ways folks labored and study from women and men in several roles, whether or not they had been editors or screenwriters, script supervisors or different administrators who actually took me beneath their wings. It was in all probability the primary time that I used to be actually conscious I had a help group and mentors at each flip. It was a extremely profound expertise to be 50 and doing one thing new. And to search out that help and management actually being supplied as much as me. I want I had had that earlier in my life, however it’s nice to be recognizing it now.

I might inform my youthful self to purchase actual property—and plenty of it—in New York Metropolis in your 20s. Possibly don’t do long-distance relationships. I can’t even imagine it. I want I used to be not in a long-distance relationship after I was residing in Europe; I ought to have been having much more current enjoyable. And to belief your intestine. I really feel like ladies are being inspired to belief their intestine and take heed to it. All of us have that voice and we should always study to belief it.

Self-care could be bodily, or it may be emotional and psychological. Typically it appears to be like like a nap. Typically you simply want to show off your telephone, not reply texts and be quiet. And that’s OK. Going for walks, discovering time for your self, and making it. That’s one thing that we don’t typically do is find time for ourselves. Particularly once we’re new moms. I feel we lose that. And in the event you can bear in mind to try this for your self, or encourage your folks who’re probably new moms to take that point, it’s actually essential to do.

It’s been so fantastic to see the optimistic facet of social media, permitting ladies to make use of their voices to be heard and expanded, and help one another. There are additionally numerous horrible sides. It truly is an train, a muscle it’s a must to prepare, of having the ability to monitor how a lot time you spend on-line and what you wish to take up. In case you can actually embrace the optimistic sides and help your friends, there’s no draw back. I like to advertise good, optimistic issues and galvanizing power. In case you can embrace it and preserve pushing it ahead, all people can feed off of that. We want extra of that.”