Fun to come back to Brussels as an artistic swimmer! I started this a year ago after reading in @elizabeth_gilbert_writer 's Big Magic a story about a woman who takes up ice- skating later in life. I was thinking about beginning things as an adult, anti-ageism, imagination, possibility and an interesting obituary!

I'm so glad I took the plunge. Even though most sessions are very physically and mentally confronting, I feel part of a community outside of work and thats been huge. Even though the sensory environment of the extremely long day competition events is too much for me, I find a way to be part of it and this team are really supportive in helping me expand my horizons, share things I know from dance, challenge myself and let me challenge them sometimes too! In a journey of working towards accepting more if myself it's been really cool to enter a new space with more self-knowledge and boundaries and confidence and then see what can happen.

We also did really well in the competition and I'm proud of us. The standard @brusselsopenmasters was extremely high and the culture of a competitive discipline isn't always easily compatible with the values that I feel my club holds. We celebrated each other and the other teams and I think we've come away from it stronger.

J. Neve Harrington - OTS Angel