Deonna during practice
About Deonna
Diagnosed in:
2003 with Fibromyalgia
2023 with Hashimoto's
Deonna began receiving formal dance instruction in 2013. As with many in the beginning, she was met with a little increase in pain but the positive impact on her emotional state took her back every week for lessons. After about the 3rd month, of attending 1-2 lessons a week, she realized a significant reduction in her pain, better emotional state, and many other benefits. She went on to say that during Covid, life was dismal without dance, getting to where she was experiencing pain almost on the level that it was before she ever started dancing. The good news was that it did not take long to get reacclimated to dancing on a regular schedule after dance studios reopened post pandemic.
Now Deonna dances as an amateur at ProAm ballroom competitions with her Instructor. An exciting & healing activity that started out as a dance class just for fun.
Competition helps her to set some realistic dancing goals that also couples as an enjoyable motivator (outside of symptom management) for continuing to dance.
Deonna at competition
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