Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Day 10 of 52 Nia dance challenge The bitch voice in my brain, the lifelong curator of my dissatisfactions, thinks I’m chubby and graceless. Because of that voice, when I first started dancing with instructor Dael Parsons, I couldn’t look at myself in the studio mirror. An ugly duckling among the swans, I was embarrassed…
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Day 9 of 52 Nia dance challenge Today I chose the 40-minute online routine “Passion” with choreographer Kellie Chambers. At the end of the dance, she said: “Take this energy of passion and fuel it into the rest of your day.” Which is why you are seeing a batch of home-made ketchup that I canned…
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Day 8 of 52 Nia dance challenge Today while dancing, I didn’t need to think about moving between fast clock 12-6 to cha cha in a repetition that also involved hand and arm movements. My feet knew what to do. I didn’t have to think about the steps. At all. This freed my brain to…