CURRENT MISSION

To be in my power.

ABOUT ME

I'm the middle one in the photo!

The other 2 aren't my dogs, but I love animals and plants, especially tall trees. And I love having a conversation with anybody.

Social worker-therapist / radical mental health worker. Vegetarian since I was 12 years old. Loves stories--to listen to and to tell.

I CouchSurfed in Anchorage to intern at Soteria House for 2 months in the summer of 2012. Soteria House is an alternative, non-medical model therapeutic community for people in mental health crisis, especially people experiencing psychotic break. I had been reading and talking about Soteria House for years, and was so excited to finally see the program first hand. Didn't get to see the Northern Lights, though, but saw moose and amazing eagles, hiked and got a moonlight motorcycle ride!

PHILOSOPHY

Be compassionate and accountable. Leave the world a better place than you found it.
I am trying to learn to live Audre Lorde's advice, "Speak your truth, even if your voice shakes."

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Thank you, CS-folks--you blow my mind!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first (and now many more) surfer was a delight! Met cool folks in Anchorage. Hope to be able to have surfers again one day (my current house situation doesn't allow it).

兴趣

Stories--listening to stories of people's lives and telling my own!
I'm involved in radical mental health work--seeing people whole and our experiences and realities as holy.
I love simple, fresh, vegetarian food, especially cooking together and sharing food.
I used to love bicycling till my knees crapped out.
Being with dogs, cats, plants and trees.

• animals
• dogs
• vegetarian
• food
• stories
• trees

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies:
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Watermelon Woman
West Side Story (I can't help it, I grew up in NY)
Whale Rider

Books:
Healing Wise, by Susun Weed
Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy
The 1st and 3rd books (Dealing with Dragons and Calling on Dragons) in the Enchanted Forest series, by Patricia Wrede (from when my nieces were younger)
Secrets for the Mad, by Dodie Clark (my younger niece and I are reading this to each other)

Current reading list:
Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell
Invasive Plant Medicine: The Ecological Benefits and Healing Abilities of Invasives, by Timothy Lee Scott
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Talking to angels disguised as street people on the streets of New York City.
The night sky when I lived in rural Oregon.
Being in a forest and looking up at the trees reaching their arms out to each other.

教，学，和分享

How to buy a great used car.
How to talk to anyone.
A cool way to listen deeply to your inner world, called Focusing.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

A meal and a story. And help getting something done around the house, inside or out. I especially love helping in the garden.

我游览过的国家

Canada, India

我居住过的国家

Israel, United States