That girl who used to be insecure about her dancing has gone away. She is now a confident woman who

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry it's been so long since I have wriiten a post. This semester has been soo crazy. I can't believe that I have almost completed my first year at AMDA. It's crazy. Seems like just yesterday I was auditioning for the school. God has truly blessed me this semester. It was a tough semester but God has pulled me through. Just last month I ruptured a disk in my back! It was soooo painful. The worst pain I have ever felt in my life. I even passed out in the doctors office after he worked on my back because the pain was so intense. I had to sit out from dancing completely for a week and couldn't bend forward, backward, turn, or jump for about 3 weeks. It was a struggle. Once again I was wondering why me?! Why am I getting injured again. I prayed and I could just hear God telling me that I needed to slow down. Right before I injured my back I was staying at school rehearsing till about 10 pm every night and getting home around 11/11:30pm. Then I would wake up at 6 am to do it all over again. I was exhausting my body. I was deep stretching, and putting in overtime with ballet. I didn't realize I was putting my body through the ringer. But God reminded me that I needed to slow down. That I can't achieve this dream by myself. No matter how many extra hours of dancing I put in, I can't achieve this dream without him. So I decided to relax a little and start coming home earllier. God pulled me through that situation like he has with everthing else. Now my back is completely healed and I am back to dancing! God is so good! In addition to the back pain, some good things happened this semester as well. One of my ballet teachers who picks favorites and never noticed me in the past started noticing me in class. I didn't particularly care for her because she reminded me of some of my past teachers who always picked favorites. She reminded me of the old me. The girl who was never confident in herself because teachers didn't notice her. The girl who never believed she was a good dancer because she was always placed in the back. Well one day she came up to me during barre and told me that she noticed I was improving. One class she even told me that she was impressed by the way I did the dance!!! I was so happy I could have cried. I felt a sense of accomplishment. That girl who used to be insecure about her dancing has gone away. She is now a confident woman who believes she can achieve anything. That girl is me! I'm so happy that I can say that. My confidence has truly grown.