Video 1 Transcript
So this is more of like a mental coaching thing. I took a gap year for ballet and then I went back to it and I felt so far behind. I felt so far behind and one of my teachers pulled me aside and was like, you are being too hard on yourself. You have not, like, you have given yourself a year of a break and you're expecting yourself to do the exact same thing that you did a year ago and you cannot expect that. And so I had extra exercises that I did at home to catch up again. I spent time doing things, like I spent extra time at the studio trying to catch up. And my teachers, my artistic director, everything like that, they were with me the whole time. And I think supporting the girls that you work with, and boys, because obviously boys in ballet, we love them, that made the biggest difference for me. And so you have to be with your students. You're not just telling them what to do, you be with them.