How Dance Melted Away My Anxiety

I threw off the shackles of my shyness and danced.

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I was not a natural-born dancer. The earliest techniques I was taught were the basics of ballet: in preschool, I took a class for a few months and I have vivid memories of lacing on my shoes and doing plies over and over again in that mirrored room.