Resilience Over Perfection | Rebuilding Confidence, Identity, and Joy Through Pain with Alayne Wadsworth
Update: 2025-12-17
Description
What does it mean to stay connected to yourself when your body forces you to slow down?
In this deeply moving episode of The Complete Woman, host Tori Poulter sits down with Alayne Wadsworth—professional dancer, creative director, and lifelong warrior--to explore how acceptance, self-trust, and consistency can rebuild confidence after adversity. Diagnosed with severe scoliosis in adolescence and having undergone multiple spinal surgeries, Alayne shares how she learned to adapt her rhythms, regulate her expectations, and reconnect with joy—even while living with chronic pain. Rather than striving for perfection, she reveals how surrender, patience, and self-compassion became her most powerful tools.
Chapters
00:00 — Listening to the Body: A Grounded Beginning
02:34 — Scoliosis, Movement, and Early Body Signals
05:20 — When Your Body Asks You to Slow Down
08:22 — Dance, Identity, and Staying Connected to Joy
10:59 — Surgery as a Reset, Not a Breakdown
13:46 — Rebuilding Confidence After Physical Change
16:24 — Pain, Perception, and Self-Compassion
18:54 — Community Support and Healing Together
21:47 — Small Wins, Consistency, and Sustainable Growth
24:27 — Choosing Self-Acceptance Over Perfection
27:05 — Moving Through Life’s Seasons with Grace
30:10 — What It Means to Be a Complete Woman
Tori Poulter | IG: @shala_hormonehealth
FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/Shala-Hormone-Health/61564605156249/?_rdr
Shop Shala: www.Shala.com
In this deeply moving episode of The Complete Woman, host Tori Poulter sits down with Alayne Wadsworth—professional dancer, creative director, and lifelong warrior--to explore how acceptance, self-trust, and consistency can rebuild confidence after adversity. Diagnosed with severe scoliosis in adolescence and having undergone multiple spinal surgeries, Alayne shares how she learned to adapt her rhythms, regulate her expectations, and reconnect with joy—even while living with chronic pain. Rather than striving for perfection, she reveals how surrender, patience, and self-compassion became her most powerful tools.
Chapters
00:00 — Listening to the Body: A Grounded Beginning
02:34 — Scoliosis, Movement, and Early Body Signals
05:20 — When Your Body Asks You to Slow Down
08:22 — Dance, Identity, and Staying Connected to Joy
10:59 — Surgery as a Reset, Not a Breakdown
13:46 — Rebuilding Confidence After Physical Change
16:24 — Pain, Perception, and Self-Compassion
18:54 — Community Support and Healing Together
21:47 — Small Wins, Consistency, and Sustainable Growth
24:27 — Choosing Self-Acceptance Over Perfection
27:05 — Moving Through Life’s Seasons with Grace
30:10 — What It Means to Be a Complete Woman
Tori Poulter | IG: @shala_hormonehealth
FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/Shala-Hormone-Health/61564605156249/?_rdr
Shop Shala: www.Shala.com
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