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- I belong to one or more of the following social networks...
- ECO
- What is your favorite talk show topic?
- Saucy stuff
- What is the last self-help book you read and liked?
- New Science of Breath by Stephen Elliott with Dee Edmonson, RN
- If you could teach anything, what would it be? [and don't say teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony sape!]
- Um... I already teach psychology and the domains... I'd like to teach people not to be such SSMFs
- Who is your dream guest you'd like us to interview on our Naked Soma Radio Show?
- Wolfgang von Goethe.. well you said dream...
- Who could you personally contact that you'd think would be a good guest on the show?
- I handle this every week lol
- What are your Top 5 Tangents - stuff you are entirely too involved in to the point of needing an intervention (almost)
- (1) Chatting/IMing for sure, (2) Watching too many hours of TV (hey, it keeps me sane), (3) Eating out constantly; (4) tbc
- Choose from the following... What animal do you most identify with?
- Horse
- Who's somatic profile from history would like to know? [note: a somatic profile reveals a person's social identity based on their behavior patterns and communication habits]
- Hm.. what about Buddha, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kahlil Gibran, Vincent van Gogh, Cicero, Carl Gustav Jung, Anais Nin, Joseph Campbell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rosa Parks, Marquis De Sade , Benjamin Disraeli, Dr. Seuss, William Shakespeare, Calamity Jane, Albert Camus, Albert Ellis.. ok I could go on all day
- My Personal/Business Website or My Favorite Site I'd Like To Share With The NSN Community
- http://www.somaspacecoaching.com
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But my life is so strange right now and I am so absorbed with what I'm doing, that I'd probably be shocked by what someone like you would say about it.
So I totally took my cross-cultural foot fetish research to a whole new level and holy crap, I just realized I'm an absolute lunatic! Let's just say no more foot fetish worshiping parties in NYC for me!
Sometimes I scare myself with the weird experiments I carelessly put myself through, but damn... I could write a better paper for that presentation now!
...aaaaand it's all your fault :-p haha j/k
Thanks for the welcome. I really like the site and have spent a little time going through some of your info. I love your posts - VERY informational & fun spirited.
Well, I am an occupational therapist. I work in mental health settings primarily and with governmental orgs. I am really into the spirit-mind-body-world interconnectedness, etc & in particular the application in MH practice. As you can imagine - it is not easy being entrenched in the medical model with this perspective but I have had some great doors open and have been able to bring a lot of more humane and ultimately spiritual practices into MH across a variety of levels. I am quite certain this is my "purpose" and it entails a lot of fun and a lot of very difficult encounters.
I work to bring a lot of what we OT's call sensory modulation approaches into practice, cognitive/functional assessments, naturally the typical battery of psych approaches, yadda yadda...
I met Dr Mark at one of the Snowflake conferences on nonlinear dynamics. I came into that "think tank" a few years ago with a friend who is (like me) trying to use NLD to better explain the dynamic/complex nature of what we do as OTs in our therapeutic relationships. It has been quite a trip so far. Dr Mark has been a real help in bringing my "ontoness" in particular, into this new dimension, when I can keep up with him that is - I try!
I have a website that goes more into some of the stuff I am into: www.ot-innovations.com I will be doing a lot of work to my site this summer so stay tuned! I'd love any suggestions.
Additionally, I really love dance & music - especially live, gardening, my deck in the summer, reading, a great margarita & being with the kids/family (when they are not whiny/demanding). Oh yeah - also love baseball, speaking of which - time to go watch the Sox!
Tina
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