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Are You Still Immersed In The Process? How Content Culture Can Cap The Artist

 It felt so good to move, undulate, and slide into a deep second position to recoil into a contorted contraction. It truly felt like breathing. Surely, I adore codified technique. However, taking a contemporary class last night taught me way more than I bargained for. Get out of your headspace, get out of the mirror, ditch the "content concept" and just dance. I reckon that is my honest thesis. I felt like Jodie (without my Cooper) as I whisked across the floor. Throughout class I thought about the likes and wisdom of dancers like Robert Battle and Matthew Rushing. While dancing, I recalled both of their sentiments that included abandon and connection (to the floor, to the movement, to the work...) while dancing. Truly, I felt that. Suddenly, I am met with a challenge. Maybe it's culture or maybe its Maybeli — nope! It's definitely culture.  For about one minute, I wrestled with walking off of the floor, grabbing my phone, finding a proper angle to record, propping...
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Essential Ways To Invest In You

 Complacency will become a norm if you stop investing in YOU. That investment will look different for different people but there are a few I believe can creep in on us all.

Choosing to not play the comparison game is investing in you. Realizing and exploring places that require your attention and working on those things is investing in you. Not being afraid to retrain or taking time to learn properly is also investing in you!

Today I explored each of these scenarios in one setting. My point of this post is to exclaim the beauty of liberation in your pursuit of calling. My Pastor often says "What you don't confront, you'll never conquer". That could not be farthest from the truth. So, when it comes to not comparing myself to others, working on my art and confronting the fact that I had yet another "note" to implement (one that was extremely helpful and resides amongst other fine details that have slipped through the cracks of my training, having not started training in Ballet really until college) I experienced, for the first time in my career, today, total liberation! For years I had imprisoned myself by my own thoughts of defeat and inferiority. I created a deficit in my thought life because when discouraging days, discouraging teachers and less than perfect steps came to shake me, I opted in. I did not understand the importance of investing in me. The only way to understand that concept is to value where you are because of where you are going.

Because I know my Heavenly Father to be a masterful creator of destiny and makes a necessity of proper training grounds, where I have been and where I am areVITAL. As a child of God your path is not random but you HAVE TO make decisions. 

Today I could have chosen to ignore my correction and ignore my need for improvement under the guise of that same comparison or lack of attention (lack of care) but I am beyond excited to say that I chose correctly. Because of that I have been liberated. 

I am free to follow God. I am free to get in THE FLOW

Invest in You.

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