𝕯𝖆𝐲 𝟑

" I am strong"

This affirmation brings so many questions to the table... I feel we all have different definitions of what being strong is, so today I'm writing about my own one and how it was built.

I grew up watching women in my family fighting to be independent and doing things on their own to feel and show that they were strong.
But they looked very lonely.

Then, after all my training as a dancer, I was told that mental strength will lead me to success, because if "I could take it all and make it not affect me" I could be at the top.
But I felt detached from my passion.

Moving country was a personal desire but also a way of proving myself and others that I could be that woman, the one who can do it all by herself and be successful without any support.
But life had other plans for me.

There have been a lot of breakthroughs in the last 9 years for me, some of them very little and others quite big. But all of them have led me to where I am now and to the definition of "being strong" that aligns the best with me.

"Being strong is the capacity to allow myself to be vulnerable"
Because when I am vulnerable I am open, to give or to receive, but open to live in the way I believe.

You might not resonate with this, and I might not resonate with this definition myself in the future either, but this is the version which aligns with my current beliefs and the one I practice when I dance.

What did my body say?