This week my joy is coming from teaching a dance class for the first time in over two years with Diva Dance DC.💚 The video of the routine I taught is on my instagram here. On my dark days battling Crohn’s last summer, being able to teach dance classes again was a north star for me, and I feel immensely grateful to be in a healthy enough place to do it. When I first stepped into this role a couple years ago, my biggest fear was that I couldn’t lead because I didn’t have a “dancers” body. But there I am in all my health, fullness, and joy…crushing it. 🔥
I so resonate with this. I was taught very young not to trust what I wanted to eat and what I needed to eat and the influences of others. I never knew myself as small only a big personality in a big body that needed to be shrunk down, it was too big. I look at those pictures of when I was called “fat” and I look like a healthy kid. So much I relate too.
<3 Thank you for sharing Gretchen. I am sending a hug to you and every big girl with a big personality who was told they need to shrink. We are so much stronger than we think.
I so resonate with this. I was taught very young not to trust what I wanted to eat and what I needed to eat and the influences of others. I never knew myself as small only a big personality in a big body that needed to be shrunk down, it was too big. I look at those pictures of when I was called “fat” and I look like a healthy kid. So much I relate too.
<3 Thank you for sharing Gretchen. I am sending a hug to you and every big girl with a big personality who was told they need to shrink. We are so much stronger than we think.
Well said Isabel, and yea 100%, F the patriarchy…
Thomas, thank you for being one of my favorite conscious men :) I learn a lot from you.