08/28/2026
🎼 Dear hoop and myself : “I never meant to fall out of love with you… cause I really do love you… I still do… but not in the same way”🎼
As I reach a 20 year milestone with hooping, I wonder if when people say that hooping is one of their greatest loves, it’s really not the hula hoop: it is ourselves.
It’s like a new chapter had begun because the hoop helped you frame it with a context. But really when a hoopiversary is announced I don’t see it as a celebration of a person and a hula hoop. I see it as a celebration of a person who loved themselves in a whole new way by giving themselves the time, energy, and space to grow in ways they never thought imaginable.
I have been on a healing journey, and the hula hoop was sometimes the only way that I would feel steady and safe. Dance is my medicine. I truly feel like today it healed my soul a bit in this session I filmed for display. Drops/accidents and all - it’s perfect to me. 💯
Also 🥅!!! Fulfilled a lifelong dream of teaching hooping for PE for my very own class! I waited til week 3 to show them all my tricks. They were floored 😂