"You are the One with the power to change your One Life"-sharing my true Story

Here it is the short life summary of a GIRL JUST LIKE YOU:

 It all goes back to my childhood: growing up in a loving family gave me a good base to start my life on a good rhythm. I was a kid who has been introduced to all sorts of activities, from Painting, Taekwondo, Debating competitions, Arts and craft till singing, dancing and playing the piano. I am thankful for my parents to give me this amazing gift of choice. The possibility of choosing something that can be my passion was the biggest gift I have ever got from them. I chose Dance. Today when I look into the mirror I see a dancer, who has been through a lot. My close friends and my family know what it took for me to get where I am now, it hasn't been an easy ride. I would rather say it has been an emotional roller coaster.

I have been dancing since I was six. Doing it in a small city as a member of a small local association means a harder rocky road, but with strengths and willpower I got pretty good results I won competitions, I became a dance instructor I lead the dance association, I founded my own school. What is hard in this would you ask? Why is this story so special?

Because all this happened, while I was having the other life parallel to my dancer one. I went to a business school, became an Economist on Bank management and Stock Exchange faculty, I was working 8am-6pm in an office for big companies, for more than 10 years and I was running to my dance classes, lessons, rehearsals, and competitions right after work.

I was doing OK in both fields, maintaining a choreography that was pleasing others around me without analyzing what is really happening to me, with me. I was sleepwalking and rushing no one knows where. I got so far that at one point I got married.

Then it hit me, I literally woke up one day after my special, beautiful day, and I knew this is not my choreography. I have been dreaming all the time but not living, I have been dancing my fake dance, without realizing what’s going on. I have to tell you this is not a good feeling, it is not liberating at all. It has a heavyweight of responsibility, guilt, regret, pain, depression, emotional eating, and weight gain. When something like this is happening, you feel totally lost. It is like you lived underwater for 30 years. You start to question your whole life; you start to think it is because of the people around you, it is because of their evil plan to control you, then you blame yourself for everything.

I got lost, all I knew that I want to start fresh, I got divorced and I started my life again searching for answers. The only thing I knew that I love dancing, dancing is me, when I am on the dance floor I am not lying to myself, that is the inner truth, I am in the flow. I am ME.

I am deeply grateful and happy to have supporting friends and family who were there for me through this harsh period. I started to dance the Argentine tango and other social dances, got interested in connecting people. Connecting on a way like reading novels. As social dancing is improvised, you as a follower really have to read the mind of the other person and follow all the moves that they are making. It makes me feel I am part of something bigger, I am alive and awake. I studied dancing and its effect on people. Starting with me. As a result, I have found the purpose of my life: I have created something that can help others just the way it has helped me: to build myself up again from my little ruins.

It took me around 4 years to get out of this negative valley, to get back to myself, to my shape, to my soul and to realize that everything is connected and all that has happened to me was part of a bigger plan. Life made me sit down and create something unique, emerging from the bottom of my heart, awaken by the turn that my life took.

I knew the answer: All that I have to do is to concentrate on the one thing that I do best: make people feel better about themselves and about their life choices. Help them get to know themselves better through dancing and just follow my instinct and my freshly found path.

And just when I started to feel better, it happened again, for personal reasons, I had to move, the first time in my life I had to go to the other corner of the world. I had to leave everything and everyone behind: my family, my friends, my little dog, my dance school, my trainer job, my colleagues, my independence, and start again, third time at a totally different environment: in South East Asia-Malaysia.

But this time there was a difference, I knew what to do, I knew my purpose. It took me a year to settle, get connected and get over the cultural shock, the homesickness and all those things that all expats are going through when they are starting over. It was hard but as I knew where I am headed the whole thing became part of the process. I accepted the fact that it takes time and commitment to start what I would like to do. I was dancing my own choreography I felt safe and aligned.

And here we are in 2018 www.changeyourlifesocialize.com was born. I am on the way to become the best Transformational coach ever with my own physical to mindful coaching methodology, for myself and for those who need dedicated and honest coaches like me, for those going through the same: people stuck with life, becoming expats, divorcees, career changers.

From the bottom of my heart, I wish you the power to make the decision to change and to dare to ask for help from people who have already been there, as we say life is short so why not make the best of it.

There was a lot of I and My in this story because I wanted to let you into MY LIFE I wanted you to see what it takes to get here. But now it's your turn: WHAT IS YOUR STORY?

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Have a wonderful day lovely people

Andrea the Dancing Transformational Coach

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Photos credit goes to Family album, Jeff Kingsley Photography, Life Moments Photography, Bangkok Tango Marathon 2019