Dance Me Beautiful
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I was just beginning to be able to let the little girl out, but now he was asking the woman in me to come out. She felt far too powerful to let loose on this world. She scared me. It was as if being her meant anything was possible. She was confident, sensual and powerful. And I wasn’t supposed to be any of those things. In fact, I wasn’t supposed to be her. I left the studio after my lesson that night feeling hopeless and defeated. I did not believe that I was capable of rising to the challenge. And, if I couldn’t rise to the challenge, what was the point? It was as if my spirit - my life force - was trapped in this body and mind paralyzed with shame. I was tired of holding back. I wanted to break free but I couldn’t. Over the next few days, I felt this energy building and swirling around inside of me looking for places to escape. It was getting harder and harder to contain it. And there was less and less of me wanting to.
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Author Deborah Graham was thirty-three years old, recently divorced and on the verge of paying someone to teach her to dance. She wanted every ounce of her being to feel truly beautiful. Graham admits she felt frivolous and foolish, but she took the first step to finding passion in her life.
In Dance Me Beautiful, Graham narrates a simple and hopeful story of the life lessons she learned through ballroom dancing. This memoir follows her journey from her first dance lesson to tests, competitions and performances as she struggles to break free from her shame and self-doubt. Graham shares her memories of how she felt, what she learned from her instructor and how, step-by-step, she learned to dance herself beautiful.
Engaging and compelling, Dance Me Beautiful serves to inspire others to take chances and fulfill their dreams and to help awaken their own inner creativity and beauty.
About the Author
DEBORAH GRAHAM is a collaborative family lawyer, mediator, writer, and part-time professor. She lives in Toronto with her son, Christopher. Graham ballroom dances at Pollock Dance Studio.