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MAKE YOUR COMEBACK

A healthy return to being with yourself, by Tracy Anderson.

Our individual journeys are what creates the truly So we needed to design this rigid window of physicality
meaningful story of our lives. As we take a deeper look at that could perform it? This part of the journey landed right
the chapters we’ve written thus far, it’s important to note onto me, and it felt the most disempowering because in
that every great journey must have its broken moments to making me aware that my body shape wasn’t going to cut
become realized. Once we’re able to lift our heads from any it, they had no healthy way to help me achieve it. No one
number of heartbreaks, that’s when we can start to leave knew how to get anyone this “body” that didn’t come by it
behind the trauma imagined and rearrange the blurriness genetically. Or very importantly, come by it genetically in
into the vision of a lesson, or in the sense of losing a loved terms of your genetic makeup responding to the discipline
one, perhaps an image to cherish forever. One we can itself, or extreme dieting and overexercising. This is not a
return to again after this life. way; it is a purgatory. On anyone’s journey where they feel
like they have lost themselves physically, there are people
Today, we’re living in a moment of time that has presented and systems that taught them to be ashamed of their body.
a loss of ease and liberty of constant physical connection in It can be many things that trigger this. Small pangs to your
order to protect one another. Each of us has had to refocus self-esteem about your physical self can do more damage
to see what out-of-the-ordinary possibilities lie in the face than you think. Not allowing them to disrupt your right to
of this reality. What might we have now that we might your own health is key. These toxic systems or judgmental
not have even had before? Where my relationship exists figureheads are not coming from the divine place that I
with those of you who connect with me to have a healthy believe we all came from.
conversation with yourself, I thank you for your trust and
time. I find my work with each of you in that sanctuary Early in my research, I cataloged athletes to sport from
of your own home to be one that I’m going to pinpoint as early as time documented to now. It’s evident that the
my range to even more this coming year. The healthiest voluntary muscle is driven by an individual’s will and if
community we can create is one that’s growing together to that will is to speed skate in the Olympics, if your will and
overcome where we’ve gone wrong as a whole, and how we discipline act accordingly, your skeletal muscles will follow
can act in our lives to make a brighter future for all. We have suit. Of course, everyone’s journey to get there has many
a lot to come back from on the other side of this pandemic. more factors than just the actions that their muscles are put
under, so there’s an even greater narrowing to those who
In the spirit of a great comeback or a recharge of one’s life, make it to the top. When one is on the traditional path to
I’d like to speak to the house of your physical home, that greatness in any sport, the pool starts wide with who has the
is the flesh and bones of who you are; the soul and spirit body, passion, training discipline, talent either naturally or
of what animates you and your livelihood. I don’t believe developed, coordination, and tolerance. The list goes on,
that any of us truly goes looking for rock bottom to need to but as you get more and more competitive, it becomes the
come back from. It becomes our willingness to consistently ones who have the genetic makeup that responds to the
look at our personal balance and how it’s affecting us and traditional-focused training requirements for each sport that
those who are also affected by us. Our behavior matters. make it all the way. The ones who don’t need the elements
Our awareness matters. Our self-imposed willingness to that expand the reach of their brain to ignite more functional
look at what we can do matters. systems to help them reach their potential. I was curious as
to why there was never the bet made on those who truly
I’ve had my fair share of comeback moments, but one in had their heart in it, but needed physical design options past
particular that showed me my purpose. Just into my twenties, what was required to play the specific sport or dance. This
I had a comeback that lit a fire inside of me. I showed up is the space that I built in fitness—an example of a mega
in New York City to become a professional dancer. I put comeback, you could say. A comeback that wasn’t about
in the hours, had the passion and the talent, but not the becoming greater for me, but rather an evolved discovery
Vintage 1970s
Diane von physical makeup to get the part. It was heartbreaking to and accomplishment for everyone to benefit from.
Furstenberg know so much and yet so little about my own body, and
at such a young age. To feel like you can fail without even What we have bred is a world of individuals who look at
putting the work in to fail, but rather just by the way God themselves in the mirror at very young ages who don’t
created you and some standard crafted by the art of a dance see any point in trying because they don’t see any clear
discipline that states the body type needed, felt like the art or healthy way to get there. If they don’t see themselves
lacked a love for the love of its own beauty. That the art of any place but on the bench, they take a seat as a spectator
the movements, the music, the story weren’t good enough? and grab a beer. In 2021, the need to make a comeback

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