Before AF : Windsurfing, surfing , diving , soccer , hockey, hanging out with friends , school .... name it ...

AF : sleeping , curezone forum , dr. rind metabolic graph , lipo c , not knowing wtf to do, movies, reading .

Tell us more about how you messed yourself up on a meditation retreat. I'm intrigued.

I was journaling and meditating every morning for a couple of years before I got this sick. I also added a naked dance to the shower at one point. That time in my life I was at the height of what felt like an extremely blissful empowered life. I have had a real hard time meditating since then, even though I keep telling myself that I need to start again. It actually feels like it takes too much energy. Maybe I need to change my approach...

I too loved to hike. I used to go to Stone mountain, our only mountain in Atlanta, hop the fence, and climb it at night butt naked. I know, I'm the crazy naked girl. Ha ha! Just a free spirit. I love people. All kinds of people. I've always been very social and in college I used to say that I collected people, like stamps. For the past few years I have loved to teach people about art and sneak in my life wisdom. I've considered myself sort of an art teacher/under cover life coach. I love to help people to learn how to love and accept themselves. When I taught my last adults art class last month before I moved home, I felt like I was instructing a symphony, like I was channeling something really profound and life altering through every word that I spoke. The people in my class were making incredible steps towards healing different aspects of their lives through the process that we were working through. That is pretty great.

Otherwise, I love to paint, be in nature, get dirty, sing, bang on drums, make people laugh, inspire people, eat healthy food, "wild extraordinary adventure" I would say. I liked to play, like a kid. Hang upside down, go up and down escallators backwards and sing and behave wild and silly. I also started to really get into travelling by myself and couch surfing a couple of years ago.

It's nice to think about these things... It feel so long ago, but really much of it ended only 11 months ago...