Connecting?

The film crew is coming

to shoot my segment of the film "Peep Me"

... or are they calling it "Peep Culture".

Not sure.

(click here)

Two women run the production company, Chocolate Box Entertainment (click here)

and I'm happy to be part of their effort.

In preparation for a pre-shoot conversation I'll be having on Friday with producer Sally Blake

I've been running my brain trying to think of ways that "peep" has impacted my life in a positive way.

I'm particularly interested in recalling ways I've connected with people.

Although face to face connection is different from connecting online I still feel

there is a benefit to the quick, seemingly impersonal contact we have with folks we meet thru say

blogging (for instance).

Yesterday I was reading a post on Tom Naughton's blog, Fat Head (click here)

and tripped across one of the comments left by a reader calling herself Angel.

She said she had earned her Masters degree in counseling but did not feel she could pursue practice unless she could incorporate nutritional wisdom into her work with clients.

Since the American Counseling Association does not support that approach

and her professors were less than encouraging regarding the connections she saw between nutrition and mental health, she did not pursue professional counseling as a career

even after years of schooling.

Her conscience would not allow her to tow the party line of the ACA by treat symptoms in isolation.

She believes that lifestyle and dietary habits significantly influence mental and physical health.

So do I.

When I read her comment and the blog post elaborating her decision (click here)

I felt validated in a big way.

A really big way.

Like a career/life choice kinda way.

I was not alone.

In one sense I'm sitting here at the computer - with my cats in close proximity

grooming themselves after sharing a grass fed burger with me.

I'm alone (after a long day of interacting with live people in the real world)

yet I was able to connect with someone who lives in  Illinois.

I connected with a stranger in a way that makes me want to scream

YES!!

I AM on the right path!

Look! Someone else sees what I see!

I'm not crazy!!

She thinks like I do!!!

There is little chance that I could make a connection like that if I limited my interactions to real-life-only.

Nor would I have found her by searching for a blog like hers by keyword or something.

We "met" on someone else's blog.

I connected to a comment she left then followed her to her own blog.

This is the "up" side of peep culture.

Here are two women writing about our career paths, our conscience, our belief in holistic healing

who crossed paths because we took the time to leave a comment on someone else's blog.

We were "talking" but not talking.

We connected without meeting.

I sent her the link to NTP Talk (click here) the online Home to the Community of Nutritional Therapy Practitioners where she can learn about the Nutritional Therapist certification program and link up with other like minded professionals.

What if we hadn't been reading and writing about our lives online

for all to see?

We'd never have seen each other.

Good think we do what we do so publicly.

*Lisa's Video Pick of the Day*

Hey!

I'm what SHE said!

I'm whiny, cranky and have sleep problems!

But less so now that I'm eating real food.

Author Lisa Lundy says that for 2500 years physicians have known that food alone is capable of injuring and curing.

The bottom line is to look at diet!

click here or click below