Strengthening My Core: My Life as a Graduate Student

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar VII
  In Paper Session: Grad Times, They Are A-Changin’: Narratives of Identity and (In)stability in Graduate School

Abstract

I participated in Pilates approximately four times during my undergraduate career. The trainer instructed me to “feel the chi” and “zip my core,” all in an effort to find my center of gravity and strengthen my core stability muscles. Perhaps my inability to commit to a centered lifestyle was a predictor of the journey of constant tension, change, and readjustment I was about to embark upon in my pursuit of the stable life I desire.

Author

• Stacy Westerman, Arizona State University