I used to think strength meant ignoring the chaos in my head. Now I think it means facing it — and still showing up with kindness. 🤍🖤

Celebrating mental health awareness week by sharing my favourite five tips to maintaining positive relationships with yourself and the gym.

This is not gym culture. This is trauma.

Historically, dance offered only entertainment, rather than athleticism meaning and patriarchy choreographed female dancers to move for the satisfaction of male audiences. These traditional systems narrow aesthetics and define dance culture.

Dreamy drawers enveloping neatly folded gym shorts, some tight, some baggy, some short, some long. A daily pick and mix; which colours...

Nothing about dance is linear- apart from a gorgeous leg extension.

<p>My five favourites to improving mental health as a dancer will help you achieve a healthy and balanced approach towards your practice.</p>

This blog post is designed as a creative outlet, exploring my once unhealthy relationship between low self-esteem and validation- a dependence not worth fighting for. This will be written with an application to dance, and how it affected my experience within practice. I hope this can be used as a tool of recognition and comfort>

In dance, we implement our own self-discipline by overcoming our weaknesses and taking responsibility over our work, performance, and emotions.

In dance, we implement our own self-discipline by overcoming our weaknesses and taking responsibility over our work, performance, and emotions.

<p>Welcome to a post documenting my relationship with strength training as a ballet and lyrical dancer. Compare how I valued strength training when I was a teenage dancer and what strength means to me now as an adult.</p>

Brain full of feathers; mental clarity brings peace. 🧱

This post is designed as a creative outlet, describing my experience with the pressure to stick to my labelled aesthetic- the dancer.

<p>This blog provides the foundations which allows movement to feel natural, whilst focusing on improving your relationship with yourself.</p>