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  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German
  • 48, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • Health Psychologist / Researcher
  • Psychology
  • From Antwerp
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Enjoying life (in general) and becoming as good as possible at helping people to be able to get more quality out of life through making health changes (professional) !!!

ABOUT ME

They'd probably say I'm a social person - easy to make contact with, friendly, smile a lot. Some people also describe me as 'intense' in everything I do.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in the power of human common sense and positive psychology

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None so far, but very eager to find out !!!

Interests

I'm a psychologist and focussing on everything that has to do with health and self-development. For now I started to help people to stop smoking; in the future I want to help people change other unhealthy behaviors. I'm doing research at the University of Brussels, also concerning smoking cessation. Since half a year I really got into yoga! I like going for long bike-rides or take the train to the sea shore or visit a park or forest nereby. I'm very much into healthy food and cooking - a few years ago I did some cooking classes and I started cooking at the age of 12 :-) Very curious to find out more about different eating cultures!! Let's not forget: I like dancing a lot (I used to dance a lot as a child; now: starting belly dancing soon, salsa, simply going out for some dancing activity, zumba etcetera).

  • dancing
  • belly dancing
  • environment
  • dining
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • zumba
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • psychology
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

This is a very difficult question since I have a big bookcloset full of books and a large iTunes collection full of different genres of music :-D I'm always open to discovering new things and willing to give new things a try!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I fell in love with the south of Austria. For me it was only at a later age that I went on a summer holiday to the mountains. After that first trip, I used to travel to Kärnten every summer. Since a few years I havn't been able to travel and now I really miss the breathtaking environment of the mountains and hope to re-experience it in the very near future!

As a child I moved to a new school practically every year and lived in the Netherlands from the age of 6 till I was 12. Some say this must have been hard. I now see it as my learning school for being able to adapt quickly to change. Maybe this is also the source of me becoming a health psychologist and helping people cope with change!

I finished my studies of psychology at the University of Brussels, not only at a later age (35), but I managed to pick up my studies and finish succesfully after a period of working in between. I'm still quite proud of this achievement :-)

Teach, Learn, Share

http://www.entheos.com/philosophersnotes

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Netherlands

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