Expert’s Guide to Positive Affirmations

The Expert’s Guide to Positive Affirmations series was a series of shorts created by MIA GLADSTONE and William Alan Harris. These shorts were used to promote Gladstone’s third studio project LOOPY.
== Background ==
The Expert’s Guide to Positive Affirmations series was first introduced on May 6th, 2022 in Gladstone’s music video for EMPATHY. Gladstone, playing a fictional alternate version of herself, introduces herself with a distorted, high-pitched voice as a “world-renowned life coach and creator of the Expert’s Guide to Positive Affirmations.”
In Episode 1 of the Expert’s Guide, Gladstone tells the viewer how to “blossom into the person they dream of.” In Episode 2, Gladstone guides the viewer through repeating a set of positive affirmations. In Episode 3, the final episode, Gladstone teaches the viewer a modified version of the Wim Hof breathing technique.
Outside of these episodes, Gladstone appears in all of the music videos for LOOPY. In the TALKING ONLINE music video, Gladstone has been hired by an unnamed company to give a speech through a Zoom call. Gladstone’s character does not make a direct appearance in the SOCIAL MEDIA music video, but is referenced throughout. In the OPEN LETTER music video, Gladstone appears to have become the president of the United States by using the “power of positivity.” 
In a short called The Story of LOOPY (or LOOPY story), Gladstone is talking to another version of herself who has been trapped in a pink box dimension (a reference to her basement studio called PINK BOX STUDIOS!). She states that she was banished to the box by the plastic reptilian gods because her power of positivity became too overwhelming. This is later followed up by the OPEN LETTER music video, in which trapped-Gladstone escapes from the pink box dimension using the power of positivity, Texas, and newfound loopiness. 
== Episodes & Appearances ==
* EMPATHY (Official Music Video)
*TALKING ONLINE (Official Music Video)
*SOCIAL MEDIA (Official Music Video)
* Expert’s Guide to Positive Affirmations: Lesson 1
* Expert’s Guide to Positive Affirmations: Lesson 2
* Expert’s Guide to Positive Affirmations: Lesson 3
* The Story of LOOPY
* OPEN LETTER (Official Music Video)
== Trivia ==
*On December 20th, 2022, Gladstone confirmed on her Instagram story that one of her “alter egos” is named Luna Ripple. However, it is unclear which character she is referring to.
==Credits==
*MIA GLADSTONE - co-creator, actress
*William Alan Harris - co-creator, director