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Tranquility du Jour

Tranquility du Jour #610: Journey to Stage Part 2

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6554 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I share my nine-month journey back to the ballet stage after a hip replacement. You'll learn the challenges, joys, time commitments, and resources involved in pursing this passion. I invite listeners to reconnect with their own passions, offer a four-step plan to purse a dream, and provide journaling prompts for reflection.

Download this worksheet to take notes and reflect on journal prompts below.

More photos from the ballet festival highlighted here.

Thank you for listening and growing up with me over the past 18 years of this podcast!

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2019 "Performance"
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Journey to the Stage Part 1

Your Turn

  • Name your dream (ex. solo en pointe)
  • Create a plan
  • Honor your progress
  • Celebrate your efforts

Journal prompts

1. What helps me feel most alive?
2. What childhood passion would I like to reconnect with?
3. Is there a class, camp, festival, challenge, or workshop that I could sign up for?
4. What level of discipline could I commit to?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, you're listening to Tranquility DeJure, a series of nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful life with doses of tranquility.

0:14.7

I'm your host, Kimberly Wilson, and love sharing ways to find more beauty and balance in everyday life.

0:22.4

In this episode, 610, I'm talking about my journey back to the stage after a hip replacement.

0:31.8

So you're going to hear about the challenges, the joys, the time and energy commitment, and more.

0:38.7

I'm also going to offer you a downloadable worksheet

0:41.8

and some journaling questions to help you in pursuit of your own dreams.

0:48.0

So thinking back, what are those dreams that you had as a child,

0:52.9

or things that you loved as a child, or dreams that you had as a child or things that you loved as a child or dreams that you've

0:58.1

had for a while.

1:00.0

You'll say, you know, one of mine was to be on point shoes, right?

1:05.1

To be back in point shoes.

1:07.3

And so that is kind of what this whole piece is about, right?

1:12.8

It's like my journey to stage on point after a hip replacement.

1:18.0

And I hope too that it will inspire you as you think about your own dreams, your own challenges,

1:24.2

and some ways to actually move forward in pursuing those dreams. All right, so let's dive in.

1:32.6

So first of all, I want to say a big thank you to everyone for your super thoughtful notes around

1:39.7

my birthday, which was June 30th, and it was a big one, right? It was a milestone I turned 50,

1:45.5

and I was sharing with my partner that, you know, I just felt as if this was like a week

1:52.0

after my birthday, that I felt, I don't know, like puzzle pieces just kind of weren't fitting

1:58.2

together. There was nothing wrong, right? But there was a lot of

2:02.5

change in transition because over the past six weeks, I've been away almost four of those. And so,

2:10.9

you know, traveling and being out of your typical routine or your typical lifestyle, it's just,

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