What’s Missing?
It is a question I constantly ask myself.
There has always been this feeling inside of me of wanting more.
I consider myself a very grateful person, it wasn’t a matter of being ungrateful. I just knew I was capable of more, I wasn’t fulfilling my potential. What’s missing? What is this nagging feeling in regards to career and my purpose to be on this planet.
16 years ago I moved to Los Angeles to accept a dance scholarship to The Edge Performing Arts Center. My dream. Everything in that moment felt right. Then after a year of training I was thrown into the professional dance world. It was everything I ever wanted and yet something was missing. I loved dancing, I loved performing, but everything else that came with it was, well, disappointing.
I wanted more. I had a decent dance career in L.A. It was your typical struggle and hustle in between moments of success. Yet even in the moments of success,
Fast forward seven years later I was hit by a car waling across the street. I found myself lying on pavement in the middle of Burbank Blvd. (a very busy LA street) and panicking. It wasn’t an am I alive or am I dead sort of panic. It was a “what am I doing with my life ?”panic.
That sent me down another long path of moving closer to family, getting married, having 2 amazing kids, getting my bachelors degree in Psychology, and teaching dance. Still not satisfied. What’s Missing?
I knew I still loved dance. I loved teaching the kids everything I knew. What I really loved however was helping the kids. That is what felt right. It was beyond the movement. It was the motivation. Why where they the way they were? What made them good at certain aspects of dance and not others? Why was one student so much more successful than the other who had the same training. It wasn’t a simple answer.
I have always been a advocate for mental health. My bachelors degree was in psychology, I was passionate about people getting the help they needed to live their fullest and happiest life. This passion led me to discover life coaching. After doing the research, I chose a program I thought fit the niche of people I would be working with the best. Wellness Coaching. Dancers, athletes and well everyone must be well in order to be the best version of themselves. It was about getting these dancers to become the type of people they needed to be in order to accomplish their goals. It wasn’t how I was teaching them the dance curriculum or what it was. I needed to teach them to be healthy balanced humans in order for the to flourish.
This led me to Motivation and Motion. It is a business where we look at the whole you, your entire being. What motivates you? Why? What’s missing? Whats holding you back? Most importantly what do you want?!
My hope is not to fix you. You are not broken. I am not the expert. Rather, you are the expert, and I am interested in you becoming your best self.
My hope is that it isn’t something that is “cured” within you in any number of sessions, but that it is something that you are able to incorporate into your life, as part of what makes you always strive for me.