A short YouTube interview-style conversation between host Chris Collins and dancer Jenna Johnson about self-love and personal growth. The clip opens with a first-person vow to love oneself and proceeds as an informal dialogue exploring Jenna’s prior feelings and experiences with body image and self-acceptance.
This day I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply. In my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have. Every moment I am conscious, I make the decision to love myself.
So simple.
How did you feel before that?
Here's the thing. As maybe a woman but also a dancer, I grew up 247 in front of a mirror. So the way I viewed myself was always with critique. Followed the way I looked in the mirror. Certain in dance it's all about visual. So if lines were wrong, oh, that's incorrect. Fix that. I had to rewire the way that I was talking to myself. And also being a competitive person, you know, I was just terrible. Like if I wasn't achieving these things, I was so hard on myself. This really helped me to see that my body was my tool instead of my worst enemy.
