Thanks for this! 🫶🏽✨

This is such a sweet and important post. From a young age, my father told me that my skin was too dark and as I went through puberty at 13 years, my mom began suggesting a breast reduction. As soon as I entered college, I lived at the gym and got myself into a very lean shape, though I was still curvy. Of course, it became much harder for me to spend 2-3 hours a day on my body as I started work, but for many years I managed being about 10-15 pounds more than my college weight. I found Trinidad carnival in my early thirties and loved that it gave me a reason to make good decisions and focus on a goal. Then I arrived at a hostile work environment when I began losing sleep. I gained more weight than I could imagine, somewhere like 40 to 50 pounds and the hardest part about working my way to my body today was removing the “drill sergeant” from my head that I had previously relied upon to stay fit. My body was simply no longer responding to hating myself into shape. It took such a long time to learn to be gentle to myself and honor each step of the process without getting discouraged. I’m still on the journey to my goals, but decided for myself that I would make it a point to have more fun along the way in enjoying the movement of my body. Hence, how I arrived at your class. Thank you so much for making this space for us and for sharing your experience. 🙏🏽✨

You still get an “A” for the effort of the attempt. It’s so nice to be able to cheer you on from afar. Wishing you an amazing carnival week. ✨

love this song & choreo! 😍👏🏽

Love this song! I hear it on the Scorch radio app. ✨