Hello fellow guides,
Mine name is Britt Jongman, I’m Local Guide living in the middle part off the Netherlands.
Where The Dutch made land off sea.
So what do we see here in the background?
Is that new land?
That answer is NO.
Today we are celebrating the birthday off my best friend.
And this is her home land, Poland.
On the other side of europe I am working on my application for Connect Life 2019.
To know a little bit more about my personality, we have to go back to 1852.
Where two men, after drinking beer decided to travel to Sacramento seeking for Gold. They didn’t find gold, but they did find chemicals and glass products for the mining, research and laboratory industry. As Product Specialist Life Sciences, I was passionately driven by the companies mission ‘we enable science’. To Give a boast to the Biotechnology Revolution, by supplying them with innovative products to realize the development of personal medicine. Personalized medicine is the treatment of patients based on its unique characteristics.
The last area humanity was mainly focused on how to use the surroundings for approvement of human life. But now we come to an area where we realize we have an inside world, ready to be explored. It is a relatively new concept in the medical world. For more information about personal medicine see following website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_medicine
In 2016 I experienced a major fall out, due to non-intellectual stimulation off the brain, which resulted in a post traumatic stress syndrome. In Europe we slowly are going to describe this as bore out, which has the same symptoms as an untreated burn out.
(https://www.nu.nl/werk/5751426/toe-aan-iets-nieuws-bore-out-net-zo-fataal-als-de-burn-out.html)
But half 2018 there came a turn point in mine live, with the arrival of Baileys, mine sweet therapeutic bulldog.
My love for her made me overcome the fear for the street and simple things as the supermarket. My greatest blessing is that we both have a desire, to discover new places and doing new things.
Thanks to her I was able to resume my activities as local guide.
Participation in the local guide community was & still is an important part of my recovery.
Being in possession of a company car, gave me a lot of freedom, to go wherever I wanted to go, and stop at any intermediate station, where according to the explore function of google maps, something interesting could be found.
Most of the time I stopped at beautiful natural landscapes, to walk with Baileys for a while.
On an open monument day, a friend inspired me to leave my safely home environment, to visit a country house from Willem III in Slochteren, The Netherlands. In the dining room there was a cupboard in which the chinese tableware was clearly visible. but on the dining table were plates which had no comparison with the one in the cupboard. So I took a closer look and saw a white horse-like creature on it. Out of curiosity I stood on my toes with my arms raised as high as possible to take a picture, Zoomed in slightly, and took a picture again.
Until someone tapped my right shoulder. Surprised I turned around and looked in the face off a small serieus looking man. What are you doing madam?
Oepsie, while I was standing 1.5 meters behind the string, I had broken the lazerbeam during photographing. I explained what I was doing and this men requested us kindly to leave the house.
So, probably that was the wrong answer.
The second country house of Willem III we visited, dishes with an unicorn too, which were again not appreciated to be photographed. We were banished to the garden, where we were allowed to stay if we behaved as ‘normal citizens’ do. I’m still curious what is the definition for a normal citizen. But at that time I liked to see the garden more.
This memory still gives twinkles in my eyes that become slightly moist before I start giggling.Something trivial that apparently was terribly wrong in other people’s eyes started The search for the secret story behind the story. The collective fantasy world made me laughing every time or maybe it was a flight from reality. Still I believe it’s a good activity to have fun with your friends, it’s only not allowed to write objective reviews based on your own fantasy world.
Or I’m not aware of a google service that I can use for this? In that case please let me know I will do a dance for you.
After a two-year ongoing and destructive reintegration process, I had to hand in my company car. which in turn also makes me learn to focus on what I find important to share with the world. Recent months I was mainly focused on processing the traumatic experiences.
And now I come to point where i can answer questions as,
- What is stress?
- How to reduce it?
- What kind of help, I needed to minimize the major impact, the PTSD has now on mine life.
- How to stay joyful and hopeful with this different working nerve system.
- What is the biological clarification about the fall out & the recovery. If i can quote mine old colleagues I was the last one how needed training in assertiveness
The next periode my activities in the local guide community will make a shift during answering this questions.
For the people how are reading this at the moment, I like to do a call out for new knowledge about stress reducing or stress management activities, which also include the influence of stress on the body. If something is popping up in your mind. You can tell me or tag the place with a small explanation on my map, so that I can see if there is something similar in my area.
https://goo.gl/maps/acGWGJAxi9W2gnXh7
To return back in society, I need to answer one more question. And that is where do i feel passionate about. Where can I work and stay energized.
As gardener I experienced many new problems, to dry earth even after rain, no or wrong nutrition, fruits turning black before you can eat them. I started volunteering by planting a agroforest. An intrinsic curiosity about what’s going on and how to solve this problems and what kind off employee possibilities are related with this new landscaping and smart city movement made me volunteering the Floriade Almere 2022. Enthusiastic I can say there is already a lot more to explore in Holland. My way back will not only be #stressless but also much #gogreener, which you will see back in mine local guide activities the following year.
If I’m 1 of the 200 lucky people who will go to the local guide connect event in november I hope to get in touch with people who can help me to
communicate the information effectively into the world by google maps or other google services.
If you have any questions for me, I see you in November or join me during traveling.
Stay In Touch
Britt or SeaeuuBirtT from the Netherlands
~A world where Science and Progress leads to all men’s Happiness, Charlie Chaplin, the Great Dictator~