whose dreams of a professional dance career were shattered by repeated injuries as she opened a different kind of dance studio, creating a safe place to dance just for the love it in today s the human factor . people say that dance is therapy, and i 100% agree with that. when you re feeling and moving and whatever is going on in your head, you can just forget about it, and express whatever you re feeling through movement, it is really beautiful and healing. i started dancing when i was 3 years old. the mindset of a dancer is if you re hurt, get over it. you still see kids competing with casts on. i end ed up needing hip surger at 16. a couple of years later i needed another hip surgery to fix everything that had been done within the past couple of years of me dancing. i had to realize that my dream, what i thought was my dream, was over.