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SparkleFam, our local primary school needs our help. Can you vote each day for them?

🗳️PLEASE VOTE 🗳️

🛝Wainuiomata Primary School Playground 🛝
After years of heavy use, the much loved junior playground at Wainuiomata Primary School has reached the end of its functional life.

To meet the needs of both the school and wider community, Wainuiomata Primary School wishes to replace the junior playground to create an inclusive and high quality play opportunity for Tamariki and Akonga.

Frequently utilised by local families outside of school hours, delivering a new play infrastructure would be a key equity lever to support wellbeing and resilience to those who live in the area.

Community We have emailed Primary, Intermediate, and Secondary Schools in the Lower Hutt region asking them to submit a proposal for a project that could benefit from a $10,000 grant.We have selected our three finalists, and from 10th–30th August, it’s over to you to cast your vote and help decide which p...

Remember back in March I asked if you could vote for Sparkleforce and myself for some awards?

Well turns out with your voting
Sparkleforce won:
Industry Supporting Business
Best Social Media Engagement
Best Disability Needs
LGBTQI+ Focused Business

and I won NZ Best Industry Advocate.

I am delighted, overwhelmed and gob smacked (in a good way).

Thank you for your vote of confidence, I am deeply grateful for your support. I recognise it’s a tricky voting system for the first votes. So thank you for your perseverance.

Recognition is always an awkward and vulnerable thing for me. I love to get into the creating and refining so it’s not until the recognition comes along that I feel really awkward. So I’m learning 🤪

It’s head down bum up again for a bit while I get some things ticked off my list.

So thank you for your vote of confidence, I appreciate you. ✨🫶

I had a moment yesterday that I just had to share. I’ve been participating in a somatic summit. Where heavy weights of the somatic and psychotherapy industry have been yapping about their passion.

One of the speakers mentioned dance and I finally understood what people mean when they say I have two left feet.

It’s puzzled me for years. Two left feet 🤔

In my world if you can walk or roll you can dance. That’s totally my world view and I’ve listened to people’s explanations. But I felt like I was missing something.

Turns out it’s something really big.

Disassociation. When a person disassociates from their body they can’t feel their legs. When you can’t feel your legs or the rhythm it would be a massive disconnect and it would totally feel like 2 left feet.

I teach burlesque differently - through a series of tools to feel safe enough to reconnect with your feet and find your rhythm.

So I invite you to follow me here where I’ll be staring this content.

If we haven’t met before, Kia ora I’m Crystal Mischief a multi award winning international burlesque performer and teacher.

I help perimenopausal women reclaim their confidence in 8 weeks through neuro-burlesque that is infused with sensual embodiment.

With gratitude
xx Crystal xx

Oooooooh! Science has finally caught up with the woo ✨💖

Shine your light ⚡️

I wonder where this will go? 🤔🧐

Living things may actually shine with visible light until they die Not only do our bodies emit heat as a light we can't see, a number ...

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is not becoming someone new. It's giving yourself permission to stop performing the version of you that everyone else expected.

For years, I thought confidence meant trying harder.
Trying to fit in.
Trying to be smaller.
Trying to be quieter.
Trying to be more successful.
Trying to be more feminine.
Trying to be less "too much."
None of it brought me any closer to myself.

Because here's what I've learnt through neuroscience, lived experience and years of teaching burlesque:

Your nervous system is always asking one question.

"Is it safe to be me?"

When the answer is no, we adapt.
We shrink.
We mask.
We people-please.
We stay invisible.
We become brilliantly good at surviving.
But survival isn't identity.

Healing isn't about becoming somebody else.

It's about creating enough safety that you can remember who you were before the world told you who you SHOULD be.

Ever felt like everyone else got the instruction manual for life?

🙋

For years I asked... "What's wrong with me?" Turns out... I was asking the wrong question.

People do not want to become someone new. They want to feel like themselves again.

If this message resonates... Sometimes coming home to yourself is the bravest thing you'll ever do.

Save this for the days you forget.

For a long time I thought there was something wrong with me. Not because I was broken. But because I was not able to find me in the boxes everyone else seemed to fit so comfortably into.

For me discovering I was non-binary did not change who I was.

It gave me language for who I'd always been. And there's something incredibly regulating about that.

When your outside finally matches something your nervous system has quietly known all along. That's one of the reasons Sparkleforce exists. Because everyone deserves THAT feeling.

Whether it's finding your
gender
confidence
voice
Or simply remembering who you are beneath years of survival.

Today on International Non-Binary People's Day, I'm celebrating everyone who has ever stepped outside someone else's expectations and chosen their own authenticity instead.

Because you deserve to feel like yourself again.

Always.

💛🤍💜🖤

Mānawatia a matariki | Happy new year

Sending you and whānau best wishes this new year. I hope you have time to nourish your relationships, space to reflect and the ability to connect and fill your cup.

If this is your first Matariki where a loved one has gone to the village of the ancestors sending you love and light as you move through this phase.

Please be gentle with you: a grieving body needs slowness, connection, rest and nourishment.

With love
Crystal Mischief