Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith Last episode we chatted about how to PLAY. We discussed how to rediscover your TURN ON, rediscover your inner child, how to remember yourself back to wonder and curiosity. ALERT: its when we stay turned on and curious that we activate that PNS, that part of us that keeps us healthy. SO why don’t we stay youthful and turned on? It’s because somewhere we got stuck asking the wrong question: What do you want to be when you grow up? Which really meant what do you want to DO when you are an ADULT. That question is a killer!! DON’T GROW UP: growing up equates to death. Adulting is not an endgame in itself. Life is not a destination, life is a journey. When you stop traveling, you stay stuck, let down your curiosity, start judging everyone doing things differently from you—because you are doing it “THE RIGHT WAY” as opposed to your unique way.—their way may be perfect for them. You get to DO many things in this lifetime. Yes it’s an amazing goal to become a MASTER at something…. You train and learn with teachers, but your goal is to perfect your own unique style of mastery not to become a carbon copy of them. Moreover, at different times of your life you can pivot—using the skills you previously mastered and re-purpose them in your new career or life experience. A therapist might be the best therapist but she may take time off the career path to focus on her children— starting from scratch with a newborn all the while using her skills of communication and translating these to build her family relationships. You can be a black belt in karate, but when you want to learn jujitsu or kravmaga—you have start again at the beginning at the white belt. Education should continue all through your life. The fundamentals of education at the younger years and college years are better spent teaching resilience and persistence as well as values. Let’s teach WHO are you? What are you? HOW do you want to feel as you travel your life path. What values do you value and can you remain true to your values as you choose careers and partners and friends? How do you want to play in your life so that work IS PLAY and you live in a turned on state? And is there a system to help you get back to that PNS, that Turned on state—can you stop RESISTING life, stop JUDGING life and others and JUST GO WITH THE FLOW. How do some people manage that?? TUNE in to learn how you too can manage this with ease and grace. What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with em