{"id":3829,"date":"2019-10-22T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.235.7.55\/?post_type=news-items&#038;p=3829"},"modified":"2022-11-05T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T17:53:58","slug":"meet-the-dancers-brooke-miller","status":"publish","type":"news-items","link":"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/meet-the-dancers-brooke-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Dancers: Brooke Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\"><p><strong>Busy Entrepreneur says \u2018Dancing\u2019 Appearance was on her Secret Bucket List<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, Lighthouse\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/southoaklandshelter.org\/2019\/09\/27\/honey-space-for-moms-and-lighthouse-partner-to-help-moms-in-crisis\/\">teamed with Honey Space for Moms<\/a>, a three-year-old business in Ferndale, to raise funds to bring its support services to women in our PATH program, which helps women recovering from homelessness or domestic violence (you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/handup.org\/campaigns\/goldenlight\">donate to the effort here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The partnership traces its genesis to Lighthouse employee Angela Gill, who is a client at Honey, a clubhouse and co-working space that provides programming including prenatal yoga, breastfeeding support and toddler art classes for new and expecting mothers.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting to hash out details of the partnership, Lighthouse CEO Ryan Hertz asked Honey\u2019s founder, Brooke Miller, if she\u2019d like to be a contestant in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.lighthousemi.org\/dancing\">Dancing with the Detroit Stars<\/a>\u00a0and the rest is history. Brooke will be among the dancers at the fundraiser gala Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI danced in high school and college,\u201d Miller says. \u201cNever competitive and never ballroom style. I think that dancing again on a stage has been on my secret bucket list. But as a 39-year-old woman, I certainly didn\u2019t think it was in the cards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller will be performing a mix of Latin dance styles, with a costume that projects themes of motherhood and being a strong woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited about that,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s been really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller, who lives in Berkley with her family, has two daughters, ages 5 and 7. Originally from the Detroit area, she grew up outside of Chicago, then left to attend college at the University of Southern California, later obtaining her master\u2019s in counseling psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute near Santa Barbara. Miller also lived in the Bay Area for about 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>She worked as a therapist, but shifted her focus to the media, writing advice and other kinds of columns, including one called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themortonreport.com\/writer\/brooke-miller\/\">Soapbox Therapy<\/a>, which examined mental health through the lens of pop culture. She also did a lot of radio and TV appearances, and was on a few episodes of the\u00a0<em>Ricki Lake Show<\/em>\u00a0during the show\u2019s final season.<\/p>\n<p>Miller moved back to the Detroit area five years ago after her husband, also a Detroit native, was offered a position here. She was pregnant with their second daughter at the time, and the couple viewed the move home as a good one for raising their family.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Miller says she started thinking about the kind of resources that Honey offers as soon as she got back \u2014 mostly because no one offered them.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeyformoms.com\/\">Honey describes itself<\/a>\u00a0as \u201can emotionally intelligent workspace with onsite childcare and mental wellness services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecoming a parent is really hard and you don\u2019t realize \u2018til you\u2019re in it,\u201d she says. \u201cBecause you\u2019re in it, it\u2019s really challenging to find the resources that you need because you don\u2019t realize what you need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She initially opened the business in a room at a doctor\u2019s office to gage demand for the services, then opened in her current location in Ferndale in 2016, having just passed the three-year anniversary with an expansion on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, she says she\u2019s managing to get back in the swing of things with the dance instruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m picking it up quickly,\u201d she says. \u201cMy body\u2019s just not used to it, so I\u2019m sore. I\u2019m older now and I keep trying to do things that I used to do, and my body\u2019s like, \u2018Nope, don\u2019t do that again.\u2019 But I\u2019m having fun. Dance was always something that was important to me. I really missed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Join us and cheer for Brooke at Dancing with the Detroit Stars, Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Townsend Hotel.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.lighthousemi.org\/dancing\">Click here to purchase tickets<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3830,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news_categories":[121],"class_list":["post-3829","news-items","type-news-items","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_categories-events"],"acf":{"photo_gallery":{"gallery":[[]]}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meet the Dancers: Brooke Miller - Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/meet-the-dancers-brooke-miller\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet the Dancers: Brooke Miller - Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Busy Entrepreneur says \u2018Dancing\u2019 Appearance was on her Secret Bucket List Recently, Lighthouse\u00a0teamed with Honey Space for Moms, a three-year-old business in Ferndale, to raise funds to bring its support services to women in our PATH program, which helps women recovering from homelessness or domestic violence (you can\u00a0donate to the effort here). 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