I am so passionate about helping women in the second half of life. At 45, my own thoughts about the second half of my life looked bleak.

On the outside, my life looked great. I had BFA in dance and was at the height of my career, choreographing on aerial equipment in a full-size theater in Hawaii. After years of struggling to make ends meet, my life was finally looking good. I was making more money than I ever had. As a single mom, I was able to comfortably support my daughters. The show I was directing that year was supported by an NEA grant. We danced to live music written for my choreography. I was feeling at the top of my game.

But on the inside, I was living out a message that had been drilled into me. I had been given the message that dancers in the second half of life lived with chronic joint pain, and I thought it would be how the rest of my life played out, because - I was living in chronic pain.