🐛κάθαρσις🦋
Catharsis (from Greek κάθαρσις, katharsis, meaning "purification" or "cleansing" or "clarification") is the purification and purgation of emotions through dramatic art, or it may be any extreme emotional state that results in renewal and restoration.
#transformationtuesday
Over the weekend I realized it has been 6 months since the stage and I hadn’t done a proper show recap. I got 2nd place in my class. It was an amazing time, I was so proud of the improvements I made since 2022, and I felt so loved by everyone who came to support me and those who gave their support from afar. That said, following the show I just couldn’t celebrate myself.
As some of you may know, the night of the show a close friend and chosen family member Sean Paul Pryor took his own life. It was gut wrenching to learn that during one of my happiest moments he was struggling so deeply. Going from celebrating with family and friends to grieving and planning memorial services in the span of 24hrs absolutely shook me to my core. Everything I was doing - bodybuilding, entrepreneurship, my goals, hopes and dreams…just felt trivial. Like how can I be so concerned with these silly pursuits when someone so close to me was struggling to simply live? I did the only thing I could and threw myself back into my routine; so much so that I forgot to share my experience from the show. But if there’s one thing I learned from Sean, it’s that you must fearlessly share your art.
He was a real artist. Passionate, creative, and unapologetic. In many ways, Sean was all the things I wasn’t. And of all those in my circle, he was one of the people that has impacted me the most. He truly changed the way I see myself as part of the world and ultimately changed the course of my life for the better. For that I owe him immensely.
So in his honor and for anyone seeking inspiration, I will continue to share my art. My trivial shapes & shadows.
