MANY HAVE STOPPED DANCING IN LIFE

This portrait hangs in my home, I took it about 18 years ago at a time I was trying to figure out who the hell I was as a woman and the photographer I wanted to be, but on this day I decided to just play and experiment with different things. I find it so interesting (yet not surprising) that the times I let myself play & experiment in my work all those years ago are the very things that are at the heart of my work now. It's my reminder to dance and keep dancing - not just on the dance floor but in life itself. Somewhere along the line many stop dancing & enjoying the process of life along the way. I was one. I have been one a few times, I fall out of it until I'm reminded again. We allow life to become too rigid, too serious, too structured, too a "certain way" and it's in those moments that we end up forgetting who we are. We give our responsibility as an adult a very serious tone which sees us hold on too tightly to too many things, giving no chance for movement, flow and fun. Life is about doing the work absofreakinlutely...but never forgetting to enjoy it along the way, enjoying your way to wherever you're going. If you find there's no movement, no allowance of you showing up as your truest self in any area of your life, if you find you've stopped dancing in life, then you're only doing or being the way you think you should, or you've been told thats how it needs to be, or you're following the path of others instead of your own, possibly pushing, forcing, going hard all the time, or keeping silent, thinking that it's the only way...bullshit, it's not and I highly suggest looking into why you still feel stuck and unsatisfied with life. For all things that will see you keep dancing through life will require nothing but openness, truth and doing what feels so right to do FOR YOU in each given moment and never ignoring the little whispers you receive, the strong pull towards something no matter how scary or the knowing when it's just not for you and how you wish to do things, Be it in parenting, business, love, money, friendships, health, the dance comes through when you get to be you in all ways. The dance is: Sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, Sometimes gentle & soft, other times hard & wild, It's following the smallest whispers with no questions, It's giving because you genuinely want to and it feels so good to, It's receiving because that's just the natural progression, There's rest just as much as there's doing the work, Times of just listening & watching and times of speaking & being in it, There are tears as there are deep belly fits of laughter, There's lightness & freedom felt even in the most challenging moments It's honest in every way. Start dancing again by opening up and becoming so completely honest with yourself, You're receiving all the messages you need by the second...acknowledge them.