Eating Disorders In Dancers

      My first goal of my 2 week plan was to share a post on instagram informing my followers on more of the general facts about eating disorders. I shares a post with 5 slides, all of which included different facts and statistics about eating disorders in general and the harmful affects of them. The first post was sharing the percentages and numbers of people with eating disorders. It shares facts such as the most common ages to develop them and the percentages of being who were actually 100% cured from their ED. The second slide shared facts about each of the 3 most common types of EDs, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder. The third slide in the instagram post shows the stats of what age and gender is most apt to develop an ED. The fourth slide shows what percentage each disorder has over all the EDs combined. The last slide shares the symptoms of the 3 most common EDs and what goes on during each o0f them, including what they do to your body....

      Since learning about failure and success in this lesson, I have become easier on myself when I make mistakes or mess up on something. I learned that if you succeed on something on the first try then it is too easy for you and you should be challenging yourself more, so then you will be more able to reach a higher potential. In school, I have been easier on myself with my grades but I am trying harder as well. I have been doing this by keeping a positive mindset and putting my all into my assignments while still cutting myself some slack.      In Austin's butterfly, he kept on trying even though he failed the first couple of times. He started off with a rough product, and each time he got progressively better until he finally got a product that was a success and ended up being very impressive. The advice that I would give to someone who feels like a failure is that everyone has to start somewhere. Not everything will be a success on the first try, fran...

     The first goal of my 2-week plan was to research male dancers with eating disorders. Often times when people picture eating disorders in the dance community, they picture women, but people forget that men are capable of eating disorders as well. Especially in the ballet community, the stereotypical body is very skinny, but in male dancers, it's skinny and strong which is an extremely hard body type to obtain. Male dancers want to fit the role of being thin while still having strong muscles to jump, leap, and partner with women. When men In the ballet world struggle with this it can often lead to compulsive exercising. There is little to no information about men having eating disorders in the dance industry because many people don't connect this gender with things such as body dysmorphia. It is not as common, but it does happen. I got most of my information from a post I found on Instagram from the account "@progressiveplie", and I shared my own post as well.  ht...