Gender	Female
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Freelance Writer/Journalist
Location	Southern Appalachians
Introduction	I am a member of Emotions Anonymous, which adapts AA's 12 steps for recovery from alcoholism, to recovery from emotional illness. Sojourning in Al-anon, a program for family members of recovering alcoholics, has helped me in dealing with my family, which was impacted by borderline personality disorder. Feel free to read! If you'd like to the next step and participate daily in a path to emotional healing, using EA's Twelve Steps, please join us our autonomous group on Big Tent at https://www.bigtent.com/groups/emoreroom
Interests	writing to learn; personal research in mental health, nutrition, and the natural sciences; from-scratch cooking; natural healing
Favorite movies	Thunderheart, The Nativity, Groundhog Day
Favorite music	whatever touches my heart and gets me dancing
Favorite books	Write it Down, Make it Happen; Writing to Change the World; Writing Without Teachers; Eat, Pray, Love

Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?

What were you meant to be? A massage therapist or physical therapist, a park ranger, a psychotherapist, a cook, a dancer, a wanderer with a pen collecting stories, a ceramicist.... a healer ... a nutritionist Clay is aluminum and silicates embracing cations. At this point in my life flexibility is much more important than ... getting any bigger than I am~