Kathleen McGuire Gaines - Writer and Founder of Minding the Gap - 006

As a pre-professional, devoted ballet student, Kathleen McGuire
Gaines left home at 14 years old to train in classical ballet.
She moved further away from home at 17 to continue her training,
only to undergo some of the hardest years of her life. A few
years after that, she quit dancing.


For years after Kathleen stopped, she believed she just wasn't
strong enough to have continued in the field. However, now she
sees that the real reason why she had stopped dancing was because
she had been dealing with a major depression that could've been
treated, if only she had the tools to acknowledge it.


So, in 2018, Kathleen quit her job to focus solely on growing,
Minding the Gap, a social good organization dedicated to
seeing mental health treated with the same seriousness as
physical health in dance culture. Her organization intends to
give the support, tools, and awareness all dancers, dance
teachers, and directors need to continue growing this art form
positively. 


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