Florence Given

And so when someone like me enters the chat.

And I'm full of love and I give myself permission to do what I want.

And I am this walking permission slip in my life.

Everywhere I go in the world, I'm a walking permission slip for other people to embody themselves, for other people to take up more space, to be more audacious.

In every facet that I go, doesn't matter where I am, my energy sort of wakes people up a little bit.

And I've literally done this since I was a child.

But the thing is, is when you are someone like that, you expose...

the limits within the minds of other women and other people.

You expose where they don't allow themselves to express themselves.

And I never feel this more potently than when I dance on social media.

It's like I'm unshackling myself from all shame.

And I have so many women that say, this made my fucking day watching this.

And then I have some people who are like,

Obviously, I lose so many followers whenever I post a dancing video on social media, but more than that, I get people actively trying to put me back in my cage because they feel so uncomfortable with being confronted with my freedom, with the way I'm moving my body, just having fun.

I think dancing is the epitome of being free of your internal cage.

And so a few years ago, I mean, I go through like a round of public shaming all the time, just like constantly.

And that's just the way that shame works.

It's the way that life works, especially when you're someone that's very self-expressive and you put yourself out there.

You have to accept shame.

hearing the worst imaginable things being said about you and getting the fuck back up again, right?