Six months ago, while I was feeling on top of the world, everything changed with a pandemic lockdown that triggered me and many others, in ways that I was unprepared for.
I had been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease two years prior. It was debilitating and greatly diminished my ability to work at the same pace I had years earlier. Yet with the right treatment, a change in diet and focused approach on my health and sleep, I was finally able to feel more like myself again. And I was FEELING the year 2020 -- until lockdown.
While I am an introvert and borderline hermit by nature, I was (in theory) looking forward to the solitude that a lockdown would bring. However, I began to worry about my underlying condition and all the anxiety & fear that soon followed. I did NOT want to get sick and I did not want to go back to the chronic pain from the last two years.
As the weeks began to blur one into the other, my first concern was making sure we found a way to take care of our exclusive talent, followed by how to maintain our programming. Once again, I was confronted with new unexpected feelings. How am I ever going to find anything remotely creative to work on? As the collective energy faltered and fell around the world, negative thoughts began to sink in, followed by waves of depression.
Just as the Spring chill gave way to Summer’s loving sun, I began to see the flowers again. Inspired by the great social awakening and the raised voices of many of our industry’s performers, I remembered how much my body’s ability to heal first started with a shift in my thinking and thus this project was born — LIPS TOGETHER, SIX FEET APART.
We now live in a changed time and while I was in my own headspace, I felt a loneliness that I had never really felt — a result of the lockdown and fear of being sick. However, like many others, I accepted the “new normal” and began to find ways to adapt and beat back the demons of my mind. In the process I found my way to, once again, find possibility in my life again — and to that end, this story, this project, and the support of RJ my husband, lockdown pod partners Levi Karter & Nico Leon, our staff, performers, and the infinite love and support from our community of friends and fans save me. THANK YOU ALL
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