AWCA Community Blog

by AWCA members

This column is a collaborative effort to collect a list for our website of places and activities in our area recommended by our members. If you'd like to compile a list in a certain category, such as restaurants teenagers like, cocktails, best burgers, or whatever you dream up, please email the Tulip Talk editor.

Claire Fitzpatrick is a Doctor of Chiropractic in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is the author of "The Nine Essentials of Health," and founder of JOY! Health and Body, a professional partnership organization with other qualified holistic health care providers. She is a professional consultant for companies who want to improve the quality of health and life of their employees.

Health is about more than eating kale and exercising three times a week. This column makes an in-depth exploration of the relationship we have with our bodies, our ability to adapt and grow within our body-mind framework, and how this relationship affects our lives as women and expats here in the Netherlands.

by Allison Ochs, M.S.W.

Allison Ochs grew up in a small town in Utah as one of 11 children. Her family was truly unique: an interracial family consisting of five adopted and six biological children. Defined by her unusual family experiences, she knew at an early age that she wanted to travel and help others.

Over the past 20 years, she has done just that. She has lived, worked and begun her adventures of motherhood in five different countries. She is a social worker/educator who has gained extensive knowledge about family life, various school systems, cultures and living abroad.