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Enter Pure Barre in Boston.\u00a0 Pure Barre is a 55 minute workout that uses a ballet barre, yoga, pilates, and small isometric movements to help shape and tone a woman\u2019s body (men can go too, but from several blogs of boyfriends of barre enthusiasts, most would rather groom their facial hair by plucking one hair at a time than go back to barre).<\/p>\n

Pure Barre is so much fun. It knew it would intense, but its only fifty-five minutes, so I bought the new client special, signed up for two weeks worth of classes and jumped right in.\u00a0 Come closer, friend because I have a confession for you:\u00a0 I\u2019m already addicted!\u00a0<\/em> I\u2019m looking up LA studios, thinking about working on my cover letter to over to send with my resume begging, \u201cplease, oh please hire me to work the front desk, clean the studio, ANYTHING because I need some barre in my life.\u201d It like all my ballet training came rushing back to me and I remembered how at home in my body I felt when I trained for a show.<\/p>\n

Just yesterday, Tyson, who babysits for me to go to class,\u00a0 said, \u201cMom, you\u2019re always wanting to go to the barre!\u201d\u00a0 To which I said, \u201cDude, that\u2019s funny but don\u2019t you ever yell that out in public- people won\u2019t know you mean barre like ballet barre and not bar like\u2026well\u2026you know.\u201d\u00a0 and he laughed manically and said he lives to embarrass me.\u00a0 *Sigh* That\u2019s my boy.<\/p>\n

Well, mischievous sons aside, today I had an \u201caha\u201d moment at Pure Barre.<\/p>\n

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When I walked into the studio I set up next to an older woman who I could tell was or used to be a dance teacher, the way she moved, her carriage, the confidence in gait, her gentle fingers, and sharp eyes- I knew she was a dance teacher.\u00a0 She looked like every dance teacher I\u2019d ever had.<\/p>\n

Side by side at the barre, we stretched and sweated and experienced the infamous muscles \u201cshake\u201d all pure barre clients know too well and when class was finally over she walked over to me and said, with a sweet conviction,<\/p>\n

\u201cYou used to dance, didn\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Shocked and a little flattered, I stammered, \u201cYes\u2026I majored in dance in college many years ago.\u2019<\/p>\n

Her eyes twinkled, \u201cI could tell in the way you moved, that you dance.\u00a0 Don\u2019t give up (on Pure Barre) it gets easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

And my chest warmed as I was reminded of truest thing I know about myself:\u00a0 that I\u2019m stronger then I think I am and I will always be the girl who dances<\/a>\u2013regardless of my pants size. Dancing is my native tongue, it\u2019s where the world makes sense and joy overcomes my anxiety.\u00a0 This truth was in me and another woman called it out.<\/p>\n

And I wonder how often we see the truth in other women? How we can see that music is her love language, hospitality her medium, organization her superpower, or a myriad of ways the women we love are uniquely gifted and we don\u2019t walk over to tell her, \u201cI can see it in you; the way you move through this life leaving beauty in your wake tells me so.\u00a0 Don\u2019t give up, it gets easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s not easy having truth live deep inside in a world that bombards you with lies that your truth isn\u2019t good enough.\u00a0 That says with derision, \u201csure you can do a lovely pirouette, but really, why can\u2019t you be assertive or ambitious, or ambidextrous? What? No? Then you have nothing to offer\u201d.<\/p>\n

It seems like we are never enough. And so, it\u2019s our jobs to perceive when our sisters are listening to lies, look for their truths, and call it out.<\/p>\n

Will you look for truth with me today? When you see it in another woman, call it out and what what happens! Her shoulders will straighten, her face will color, at first with embarrassment then acknowledgement, then her eyes will soften- they may even well up with hopeful tears, and then her resolve will shift into place as truth prepares her for the path she\u2019s called on.<\/p>\n

Seeking Truths To Tell,<\/p>\n

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