Haha my pole name has been quite the saga and I’m sure there are several people rolling their eyes when they see that I’m posting to this thread (and I don’t blame them). https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif Names carry a lot of significance for me so I take it a lot more seriously than I should (yes, I admit it).

When I first joined this forum, you could change your username. I just did the first four letters of my real name because I didn’t really think about it too much. Then I finally picked a "stage name" (or pole name or whatever) after posting a thread asking for input on what it should be. After all that I came up with Foxy Rei – so yes, if you dig up some older threads with posts by that name, it’s me. Several people thought I looked like a "Foxy" when they looked at my pictures and I’m a fan of Japanese Anime and liked the name Rei ("Ray") so I stuck the two together. So I changed my username to Foxy Rei with my old first-four-letters-of-my-first-name together so people would know I was the same person. Then they changed the site so the usernames had to stay the same, and this was the same day that I had planned to go with just Foxy Rei. But Veena was able to change it for me before the changes were made permanent.

Last year, I took an unintentional pole sabbatical and was off the pole for several months. I went through a hard time emotionally and financially and just never poled. When I finally got back into it, I felt different in a lot of ways. I had started pole dancing for the sexy side of things, hence the "foxy" name, but over time it turned into something different for me. Plus I’m Christian and was struggling with how pole dancing fit in with my faith (I knew they could coexist somehow but couldn’t quite articulate it). I finally got everything to click into place and somehow my old name just didn’t seem to fit. (I also wanted to start a pole dancing blog and kinda wanted a fresh start.) It didn’t feel right.

I went back over my old list that I had narrowed down to in my original search for a pole name and Journey jumped out at me. The word entails change, growth, pursuit, moving forward – which is exactly what I have done in pole dancing and what we do in life. I loved it! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif

So I made a new username here and started my blog, PoleSpection, using the name Journey. Some people weren’t too happy about the change and a few people still call me Foxy – which is fine, I’ll answer to it https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif it’s still a good name! – but the change is something that I did for me.

There you go. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif