Anyone else thinking about the Nick Jonas Camp Rock song right now? Sorry that’s the little voice in my head there for you!
Hi my girlies, how are we? If you think these pages are going to be anything but formal please think again. Let’s have a chat, let’s get to know one another, and let’s get started. I am beyond happy that this is becoming a reality, and I can’t wait for us to build this space together. A community where us girlies can confide and rely on one another, to make new friends and share new experiences. No judgement, just support and encouragement.
This is going to be fun.
So let me re-introduce myself. Hi. My names Imogen Louise Cribb, I am fully Welsh (I seem to think that’s a personality trait) however, I actually never grew up there…
My mum, dad, older sister did, minus me. When my mum was pregnant with me our family moved to a place called Hampshire, in particular Lymington. This was the best place I could have ever grown up in, a 15-minute walk to the beach and a 20-minute drive to the New Forest, we had the best of both worlds. Honestly if you ever get the chance to go, I recommend to a friend, it’s so cute there.
When I was 12 we all moved again. You see my dad is the most hard-working man you would ever meet, I am so grateful and so proud of everything he’s done for our family. That being said, as he’s worked up the chain with his work, this has tended to result in a relocation. Leading us to move to the midlands just a little out of Nottingham in the countryside where I then attended my secondary school. That experience was very interesting to say the least, but I did make friends that I know, I will have for life. Moving on I then decided that after training in dance, literally since I was two, to go to dance college. So, I auditioned and ended up at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of music and dance, where I spent three years studying contemporary and ballet in Greenwich. To now living in London with my boyfriend of almost four years, who is genuinely so amazing and couldn’t ask for a better partner to spend my life with.
So that’s my VERY basic rundown, which has led us to this moment and the birth of THE GIRLIES LOVE TO. After leaving Uni it really did take me a while to adjust. I thought it was all going to be fun and games thinking, “thank god I don’t have to go to uni five days a week” and “no more assessments, woo”. When the reality was that my life was only just beginning and now the world was at my feet and I had no idea, not a scooby, what to do with it. The common response to that is ‘well why don’t you become a dancer’ and the truth is that I fell out of love with the dance world. It can be so beautiful and expressive, but at the same time it was so toxic. I was constantly thinking about body weight and image, the competitiveness also wasn’t for me. It happens, and it’s horrible to admit, i hope I do find my love for it again. But that’s the truth after studying something so intensively for three years, it can go one of two ways:
1) Loving your profession even more and being excited to go out and practice it in the world.
Or
2) Disliking what you have studied day in day out for potentially three years plus and now seeking change.
Well, I’m here to say both outcomes are so fine because the world is so big that it can be daunting but it’s so incredibly enormous that you now luckily have so many options at your feet. And that’s what I’m now discovering.
THE GIRLIES LOVE TO is a platform where we can all talk to one another and talk about these kinds of topics. Everything navigating your 20s whether that’s the struggles of finding yourself a good routine, or to not be sure on what to do next, or even if you are contemplating moving to the other side of the world. That’s the one I’m still hung up on. With this being said, I aim for us girlies to be able to thrive from meeting new people, trying new experiences, and discovering new things.
So, let’s go for coffee, let’s try running, or let's go to a pottery class. Let’s just try it together. And know that us girlies, we got one another.
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