MY ANSWER:PLEASURE and AUTHENTICITY
BUT
how do we get there in this world where busy-ness and work is glorified, and
play and pleasure is for the lazy, unmotivated, and children…
I AM DR TINA KOOPERSMITH….
A physician and coach who wants to teach the world about wellness.
Eroticism is a secret sauce to wellness–
Interconnectedness is critical to wellness.
We need to prioritize pleasure.
We need to remember that our thoughts and our emotions are critically linked to our physical body and to each other and our environment.
This means sickness can start in the thoughts or emotions or environment and manifest in the body as dis-ease.
This also means.. we can heal the body through healing the thoughts and moving emotions through us and through deeper connections.
I was living a successful life as a wife, mom, & physician but had completely lost my direction, my life. I felt I was living my spouse’s life and or reliving my mother’s life and she had died prematurely at 59, when I was in my 20s.
I woke up one day and decided I couldn’t die before fully living and vowed to take control of the reins of my life. It started with athletic pursuits–with hiccups along the way, then back to school for another fellowship, connecting w sisterhood in a weekend summer camp and finally –finally–having the courage to walk out of my marriage.
From there I plunged into sensuality, sexuality, sisterhood and coaching and I am still trying to navigate my way to living the most authentic version of the me that I am supposed to live.
As a physician, I am well acquainted with delayed gratification. My first real job ( after school and 6 years of training) was at age 31. I now understand how that prepared me to be a late bloomer–LIFE restarted and rebooted at age 47 when I woke up one day and decided to take back my life and get back on track. I realized I was living my mom’s version of what my life should be. I took up long distance running and triathlons and then went back to study integrative medicine and oh so much more.
Now at age 60, I feel I am just getting started finding my authentic self, and my voice. It’s time to promote and speak about wellness and in particular that EROTICISM and PLEASURE is the secret sauce back to wellness. These past 15 years I have been on my own personal self designed curriculum in self healing–and my MISSION is now to help a MILLION humans do in MONTHS what took me years.
I am both a rule follower and a rule breaker. I went the traditional life route– excellent schooling at Duke University for undergrad and medical school, then Internship, residency fellowship at USC/LA County Medical center in OBGYN/REI.
I got married and had 3 kids. Standard job–physician in private practice. Along the way— I tried to do life MY WAY:
I majored in political science and was one a select few back in the 1980s to do a semester abroad, studying at the LSE in London. In medical school, during our 3rd year of research I pushed to go to LA to do research in recurrent miscarriages in the city where IVF/Infertility was growing quickly ( and of course–there was a guy involved in the decision to change cities as well).
After 30 years of marriage, I, like many women, decided the traditional role of wife was not in my best interest, and so I left my spouse to be ME.
Similarly, despite training as a traditional physician, I stepped out of the mold to learn integrative and functional medicine and from there it’s been a deep dive into numerous other modalities of healing: novel techniques to help myself and patients change their mindset, behavior and emotions and health.
From all these techniques, I am on a mission to teach a new way to understand ourselves–from human to humanoid; from one body to four bodies, from staying alive to creating aliveness.
Are we living or dying? The answer is always YES– we are always doing both–its all in how we PRESENT our reality to ourselves. We are desperate for a new paradigm of healing–since as a civilization we are both more civilized and less civilized simultaneously and our “health” care system is really a system that profits off illness. LET’S CHANGE THIS.
I am trying to be a role model through writing, speaking, doctoring and coaching. We grow and heal by mirroring the neurons of others–and so I would love to play with you and your audience to spread my energy and share my nervous system.
I am in the process of reinvention.
Labels collect over a lifetime and yet it is false to believe that our labels truly define the REAL YOU. You are so much more than a label. I am a daughter, a sister, a, woman, a doctor, a wife, a woman separated from her spouse, a mom, a writer, an athlete, a friend, a spiritual person– and yet so many others probably have the same labels and are not me.
And I am all of that and more.
And I can become whatever I believe myself to be–even as I am just learning this and learning the science of creating miracles– I am a nothing and a somebody simultaneously. I am a human ( a small mammal in the middle of the interconnected food chain/web) and I am the entire universe since I create my entire reality.
We are not our past, and yet our past is always with us. It is our job to RECYCLE our past for our benefit. In such a way, our brilliant life force, which is the universe, is always working FOR OUR BENEFIT, but it is up to us to decode and decipher the messages for our benefit & growth.
As a physician and coach, I cannot heal you, and yet I can help you heal yourself. Even in surgery, I “re-injure” you so you can heal yourself bigger and better and stronger. It’s a new paradigm of healing that returns the power to the individual.
