I was a national championship dancer
with dreams of moving to and working in
Los Angeles when I was told that I would
never dance again
all because two decisions were made one
my friend decided to drink and drive and
two I chose to get in the car
I spent 51 days in the hospital having
to reconstruct and redefine my body my
dreams my abilities and ultimately who I
was the mental physical and emotional
toll that that night has taken on me
will live with me forever but I’m sure
no one would blame me if I just decided
to give up and accept the fact that I
was physically disabled but I was 17 and
I had a lot of life to live and although
many of bones of my body were broken not
one bone in my body was ready to give us
so what now what’s next five years ago I
moved to Los Angeles to become a
professional dancer and although a lot
of odds and elements were against me I
did it I’m doing it but along with a lot
of wins comes a lot of losses and I
realized over the last year a lot of
news articles and papers that came out
when the headlight came out it said
wheelchair-bound dancer wheelchair-bound
athlete wheelchair-bound girl and I
thought to myself bound wait I’m not
bound there’s absolutely nothing tying
me to this chair and is that the only
thing that people see is that my
accomplishments are only interesting
because I paralyzed
have you ever seen a news article where
the headline was anxiety ridden team win
state track tournament
or woman with no self-worth opens up a
this year my wheelchair dancing the
Rolex Los Angeles launched our
international campaign called feebleness
which promotes mental physical and
emotional balances so in order to have
boundlessness you must know your
boundaries right so according to Webster
dictionary boundaries are something that
indicates or fixes a limit or extent and
love the first word in this something
because something doesn’t equal
wheelchair or anxiety or self-worth or
amputation or cancer it can be anything
based off of each individual person or
situation anything that is keeping you
from mental physical and emotional
thoughtlessness and if I listen to all
those doctors telling me oh all right
now this is where the living
groundlessly comes in I realized that a
lot of my somethings and walls in front
of me were not put up by me they were
set by people with assumptions about me
being boundless is not about being
perfect or not having to something it’s
about not letting other people put a
limit or expectation or what you can or
cannot do if I have listened to all
those doctors telling me that I would
never dance again that I wouldn’t
currently be running the world’s largest
all-women’s wheelchair dance team or the
world’s largest international dance
intensive but specifically made for
women in chairs that spans over 150
women from 10 countries and if I had
listened to all those choreographers
that told me that I was just an
inspiration and that’s all I would ever
be
I wouldn’t currently be working with
some of the top choreographers and
traveling the world but more importantly
despite all the but if I wasn’t allowed
every person that has ever tried to
paste a limitation for expectation on me
just because of my something then I
probably would have never emotionally or
mentally loved that Hospital my hopes
and dreams would have died there and if
I had people around me that only saw
what I could not do instead of what I
could do then they would eventually
become those very well boundaries around
me being boundless is about pushing
yourself it’s about saying it didn’t
work today but I’ll try again tomorrow
and when it doesn’t work tomorrow or the
next day or the next you never let your
boundaries keep you from the things you
desire you find a way to work with your
something sometimes I need someone and
it’s really encouraging to me when they
say oh you’re such an inspiration for
following your dreams or for leaving the
house today like thanks but in the
spirit of living boundlessly I also want
to say to them you fought your crippling
anxiety today that inspires me you as a
quadriplegic found a way to do your
makeup on your own today with no hand
function that inspires me I know you’ve
lost everything but today you chose joy
over bitterness that inspires pain
whether it’s relatable things like
getting a new job or chasing your dreams
or as simple as getting a pair of jeans
on brushing your teeth and walking out
the door or finally leaving our
relationship that’s hurting you mentally
emotionally be boundless is about
navigating through those somethings you
were given on your way to mental
physical and emotional freedom however
it’s not easy some days I wake up and I
think and it’d be nice that things are
different if this didn’t happen to me
but in that moment I have a choice a
choice that will define the rest of my
day week month year and ultimately my
life needs some help I’ll make it about
the choice the first boundless choice
you can make is understand that whatever
your some things are it isn’t all that
you are I’m not just paralyzed from the
waist down I’m a woman that hopes to be
a mother one day a girlfriend a friend a
girl boss and an entrepreneur this will
help you keep a bigger perspective on
yourself number two make a list lists
all the things you love about yourself
all the things you love about your life
and all the things you want for your
future and then decide that those things
are more powerful than the walls and
boundaries use someone or something has
placed around you and number three find
your people find people that acknowledge
your something’s and pursue life anyway
and let them surround you instead of
your fear my greatest success
godlessness is a choice experiencing
your something and pursuing life anyway
is a daily choice and that is sometimes
hard to make for you and for me my
greatest success has come from when I
refused to let someone or something
shape my life for me and my biggest
lesson has come from when I made the
mistake and I let other people tell me
what I could or could not do we rarely
get to choose the things like hands us
our lives can change
in an extent I did usually with just one
decision and that can go both ways
sometimes it isn’t the moments right
after that define us but it’s in the
small daily once a week after a month
after for me eight years later we can’t
make a daily choice to be beltless you
just need to find our own version of
what that looks like everyone has a
disability some are just more visible
than others everyone has something this
situating the bane speaking my lesson
from the Bayesian the beauty
but boundaries have you or someone or
something placed in front of you and
what choice are you going to make today to be wellness
with dreams of moving to and working in
Los Angeles when I was told that I would
never dance again
all because two decisions were made one
my friend decided to drink and drive and
two I chose to get in the car
I spent 51 days in the hospital having
to reconstruct and redefine my body my
dreams my abilities and ultimately who I
was the mental physical and emotional
toll that that night has taken on me
will live with me forever but I’m sure
no one would blame me if I just decided
to give up and accept the fact that I
was physically disabled but I was 17 and
I had a lot of life to live and although
many of bones of my body were broken not
one bone in my body was ready to give us
so what now what’s next five years ago I
moved to Los Angeles to become a
professional dancer and although a lot
of odds and elements were against me I
did it I’m doing it but along with a lot
of wins comes a lot of losses and I
realized over the last year a lot of
news articles and papers that came out
when the headlight came out it said
wheelchair-bound dancer wheelchair-bound
athlete wheelchair-bound girl and I
thought to myself bound wait I’m not
bound there’s absolutely nothing tying
me to this chair and is that the only
thing that people see is that my
accomplishments are only interesting
because I paralyzed
have you ever seen a news article where
the headline was anxiety ridden team win
state track tournament
or woman with no self-worth opens up a
this year my wheelchair dancing the
Rolex Los Angeles launched our
international campaign called feebleness
which promotes mental physical and
emotional balances so in order to have
boundlessness you must know your
boundaries right so according to Webster
dictionary boundaries are something that
indicates or fixes a limit or extent and
love the first word in this something
because something doesn’t equal
wheelchair or anxiety or self-worth or
amputation or cancer it can be anything
based off of each individual person or
situation anything that is keeping you
from mental physical and emotional
thoughtlessness and if I listen to all
those doctors telling me oh all right
now this is where the living
groundlessly comes in I realized that a
lot of my somethings and walls in front
of me were not put up by me they were
set by people with assumptions about me
being boundless is not about being
perfect or not having to something it’s
about not letting other people put a
limit or expectation or what you can or
cannot do if I have listened to all
those doctors telling me that I would
never dance again that I wouldn’t
currently be running the world’s largest
all-women’s wheelchair dance team or the
world’s largest international dance
intensive but specifically made for
women in chairs that spans over 150
women from 10 countries and if I had
listened to all those choreographers
that told me that I was just an
inspiration and that’s all I would ever
be
I wouldn’t currently be working with
some of the top choreographers and
traveling the world but more importantly
despite all the but if I wasn’t allowed
every person that has ever tried to
paste a limitation for expectation on me
just because of my something then I
probably would have never emotionally or
mentally loved that Hospital my hopes
and dreams would have died there and if
I had people around me that only saw
what I could not do instead of what I
could do then they would eventually
become those very well boundaries around
me being boundless is about pushing
yourself it’s about saying it didn’t
work today but I’ll try again tomorrow
and when it doesn’t work tomorrow or the
next day or the next you never let your
boundaries keep you from the things you
desire you find a way to work with your
something sometimes I need someone and
it’s really encouraging to me when they
say oh you’re such an inspiration for
following your dreams or for leaving the
house today like thanks but in the
spirit of living boundlessly I also want
to say to them you fought your crippling
anxiety today that inspires me you as a
quadriplegic found a way to do your
makeup on your own today with no hand
function that inspires me I know you’ve
lost everything but today you chose joy
over bitterness that inspires pain
whether it’s relatable things like
getting a new job or chasing your dreams
or as simple as getting a pair of jeans
on brushing your teeth and walking out
the door or finally leaving our
relationship that’s hurting you mentally
emotionally be boundless is about
navigating through those somethings you
were given on your way to mental
physical and emotional freedom however
it’s not easy some days I wake up and I
think and it’d be nice that things are
different if this didn’t happen to me
but in that moment I have a choice a
choice that will define the rest of my
day week month year and ultimately my
life needs some help I’ll make it about
the choice the first boundless choice
you can make is understand that whatever
your some things are it isn’t all that
you are I’m not just paralyzed from the
waist down I’m a woman that hopes to be
a mother one day a girlfriend a friend a
girl boss and an entrepreneur this will
help you keep a bigger perspective on
yourself number two make a list lists
all the things you love about yourself
all the things you love about your life
and all the things you want for your
future and then decide that those things
are more powerful than the walls and
boundaries use someone or something has
placed around you and number three find
your people find people that acknowledge
your something’s and pursue life anyway
and let them surround you instead of
your fear my greatest success
godlessness is a choice experiencing
your something and pursuing life anyway
is a daily choice and that is sometimes
hard to make for you and for me my
greatest success has come from when I
refused to let someone or something
shape my life for me and my biggest
lesson has come from when I made the
mistake and I let other people tell me
what I could or could not do we rarely
get to choose the things like hands us
our lives can change
in an extent I did usually with just one
decision and that can go both ways
sometimes it isn’t the moments right
after that define us but it’s in the
small daily once a week after a month
after for me eight years later we can’t
make a daily choice to be beltless you
just need to find our own version of
what that looks like everyone has a
disability some are just more visible
than others everyone has something this
situating the bane speaking my lesson
from the Bayesian the beauty
but boundaries have you or someone or
something placed in front of you and
what choice are you going to make today to be wellness
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