tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347827.post7463088673547760937..comments2024-01-16T16:13:19.628-07:00Comments on Rising Up Whole: Nope, it didn't lead to a babyChristine Bakkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262976600427879137noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347827.post-29879668132513428342007-05-26T22:28:00.000-06:002007-05-26T22:28:00.000-06:00Hi!I just stumbled across your blog (via Glamour.c...Hi!<BR/><BR/>I just stumbled across your blog (via Glamour.com, strangely). I write for the blog Quench (http://quenchzine.blogspot.com), with a bunch of queer people and allies from the Boston area. I think your story is very compelling, and I wish you the best of luck.<BR/><BR/>I also love dancing (and clubbing!), so I'm glad to hear you're having fun!icarushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07153040364494033373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347827.post-42056452196679194762007-05-24T17:37:00.000-06:002007-05-24T17:37:00.000-06:00Hey Christine--Your blog is amazing, and I hope I ...Hey Christine--<BR/><BR/>Your blog is amazing, and I hope I can come back here sometime to read more. I'm Christian (and heterosexual), and I think that stories like yours are EXACTLY what the Christian community needs right now. I could write another 20 pages on this idea, but I'll let it go until I know more of your story...<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, I'm a dancer, and as part of that, I believe SO strongly in the need to feel comfortable in one's body. I completely empathize with your not wanting to go out on the dance floor--but it breaks my heart, too! There are tons of body awareness kinds of classes out there that can change your life in that regard--personally, if you are not comfortable moving a lot or letting other people see you move, I would look into Feldenkrais classes in your area (I'm sure there are some). Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais was an Israeli brain surgeon that was disabled in a battle in World War II, and he used the same movement patterns that babies learn when they are infants to teach himself to walk again. He went on to teach tens of thousands of people, from rape victims (who often report the same "out of their body" feelings you did) to children born with cognitive defects to just normal neurotic office workers. The classes are usually very short--30 to 50 minutes--and involve no more moving that exploring how to bend your knee to your waist or something of that sort. The classes are very gentle and ALL about reconnecting with your own body--most of them either take place on your back or your stomach. No stress!<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, just a suggestion, because having survived some trauma of my own, the Feldenkrais classes I've taken have really changed my view of myself for the better. I hope you can do a little research into it--everyone deserves to love and be comfortable with themselves, and with their bodies in motion!<BR/><BR/>~Laura~Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11340867840453322978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347827.post-41665388173663530752007-05-13T14:24:00.000-06:002007-05-13T14:24:00.000-06:00I'm still waiting for when I'll go dancing - anywh...I'm still waiting for when I'll go dancing - anywhere - maybe I should start drinking? But I somehow don't think my arms & legs will be any better connected <I>drunk</I> than they are now...Scholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10219626585108690444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347827.post-28052227679049484382007-05-09T10:41:00.000-06:002007-05-09T10:41:00.000-06:00Thanks so much all - for those of you who don't li...Thanks so much all - for those of you who don't like in the Denver area, I think you all just need to come out here and we can dance together!Christine Bakkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14262976600427879137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347827.post-58768342491125563982007-05-06T22:30:00.000-06:002007-05-06T22:30:00.000-06:00It made me smile to see that you are, ever so slow...It made me smile to see that you are, ever so slowly, dancing into a new life!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347827.post-85625408463408157172007-05-06T18:24:00.000-06:002007-05-06T18:24:00.000-06:00that's so cool to hear about Christine...i know wh...that's so cool to hear about Christine...i know what it's like to be disconnected from your body. i'm on the journey as well to accepting my body, all part of it. even the uncorrdinated parts that can't dance. :) it's good to hear about the freedom you are experiencing! <BR/>~ Shelly CoxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347827.post-62541384539016187392007-05-06T14:07:00.000-06:002007-05-06T14:07:00.000-06:00It is so nice to be able to be yourself. After fif...It is so nice to be able to be yourself. After fifty years I am finally free. Do you know I never went out to dinner except when my parents dragged me, now I go out all the time. I never went to a play, now I am going two or three times a year. I have done more thing and gone to more places in the last five years then in the previous fifty.Diana_CThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14223056441901730531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347827.post-53560500310336517142007-05-06T03:18:00.000-06:002007-05-06T03:18:00.000-06:00Congratulations, Christine...I'm glad you had fun!...Congratulations, Christine...I'm glad you had fun! I feel like I'm right there with you, especially this part: <I>I'm so excited about my future. This is just a small thing, but is part of a whole package of feeling good about who I am, and joy about whom I'm becoming.</I> Becoming is such a liberating experience, isn't it? Maybe that's what makes it so scary sometimes...Allyson Dylan Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06889758824779463307noreply@blogger.com