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Ep. 165 Day 6: Burned Out? “Why am I Even Doing This?”

May 9th 2026

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to Day 6 .

You used to love this. You used to live for it — the classes, the rehearsals, the music, all of it. And somewhere along the way something shifted and now you’re showing up out of habit or obligation or guilt, going through the motions, wondering when it stopped feeling like yours.

If you have ever stood in the studio and genuinely asked yourself why you’re still doing this — this episode is a safe place to land.

Today we talk honestly about burnout in dance — what it actually is, how it creeps in, and why it is so often misread as laziness or lack of passion when it is actually the opposite. We talk about how to find your way back to yourself and back to the love that started all of this. And we talk about what it looks like to rebuild your relationship with dance on your own terms — not the terms of a schedule, a syllabus, or someone else’s expectations. The love is still there. Today we go and find it.

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