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Hey y'all!! Another unthemed challenge from your local uncreative green blob! ^^Me trying and failing to come up with any creative themes, but all gifs are welcome! Last challenge I had commitment issues but then ended up with mostly the same goals week-to-week, so we're gonna try really committing here. I recently started an "Unbreakable Body" membership - it's pricey but I think it could pan out to be a good injury prevention / pain management tool for dance, plus it means I don't have to read a ton of info then come up with my own program like I sometimes do. Two big buckets of goals for this challenge, plus an FYI bucket of other things I'll be posting about. Take care of your physical body (all from Unbreakable Body): Daily movement practice (1x+ per day, taking the place of nighttime stretching and maybe also as a workout warmup - it's a 10-minutes or less flow, nothing too crazy) Keep following Unbreakable Feet programming - noticing a difference in strength and mobility here and no dancer can have too strong of feet Work through the self-massage / soft tissue stretching movements in the program (~30) for initial assessment by the end of the challenge Do the pillars strength building stuff (basically, shoring up common joint control / strength weaknesses) at least 1x / week Take care of your soul (idk how I feel about the word, but feels easier than physical / mental / emotional health - I badly need it after an anxiety/perfectionism/depression flare up this past weekend): Qi Gong breathing exercise 2x/day, repeating my mantra (currently "I am human; I am enough" because I had a STRONG perfectionism fit over the past week) Pray daily - remind myself that I believe in some sort of spiritual connection between humans Write a daily gratitude journal about my "shadow self" (hat tip to @RedStone for pointing me to a podcast on this topic; the oversimplified version is that we have to acknowledge the parts of ourselves we don't like because they're usually the other side of a trait that makes us awesome) Read every day, even just 1-2 pages, from an actual book FYI / in the background: Strength and conditioning (juggernaut-ish) program including some warrior kryptonite a.k.a. cardio Travelling to a wedding this weekend, dance competition next weekend, then home til around labor day, I think Ballroom Dance practice (partnered and solo) and teaching (adorable little and not-so-little kids) Starting my own dance teaching stuff (I currently work in a youth program my coach organizes, would also like to start teaching some of my own adults for a little extra cash money) Continuing good sleep habits Exploring new roles in my company and navigating a recent org change (also processing some negative feedback I got last week) Still doing a kinda sorta cut but we're not calling it that - just doing the nutrition thing consistently and embracing the results as they slowly-ish trickle in (down 15 lbs since January 1st, so actually not that slowly, somehow - idk, this don't track and eat lotsa carbs thing is working pretty well for me)