As I continue to refine my career aspirations, I am interested in the different ways vulnerability and healing can be found through the body.
Tracing back to my experience with dance, choreography, and movement, a lot of unexpected parallels can be drawn, as the body is a main component in emotional processing. Knowing how to take cues from the body and examine how those different cues can give you information on your emotional state can help you heal in a powerful and integrated way, the main goal being to fully integrate the mind-body experience.
Looking into social work, specifically in end-of-life care, I believe grief and death is a process that needs to be normalized, as grief is an unavoidable part of life. Sometimes people may think grief is only present after experiencing the death of a loved one, but grief can come with any sort of loss. And despite not having a lot of personal experience with death, I have had my fair share of experience with grief, which has made me realize the importance of familiarizing oneself with the grieving process and recognizing the methods it can be done in a more intentional way.
Taking my dance experience, my own experience with mental health struggles and different forms of recovery, and my increasing knowledge of the experience of grief, I am continuing to learn new ways of integrating the body and mind and am learning how to make peace with ever-changing realities and how to help others move toward a place of healing and acceptance.
To dance is to put on display every memory, every emotion, every insecurity and vulnerability that your body holds, and my aim in both my dance and social work practice is to create an integrated space for healing, both in the body and mind, using movement in collaboration with psychotherapeutic modalities as a method for doing so.
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