Jodi Ettenberg

legalnomads.com/now

As with my years of travel, keeping a state of curiosity and an open mind helps keep me firmly lodged in the present tense. Curiosity is what helps keep me afloat through the constant pain, through the grief, and through the ups and downs of learning to live in a very different body.

Location:

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Professional title:

Writer, advocate, and public speaker

What do you do?

I shares stories about curiosity, health, and grief, and create detailed gluten free translation cards to help celiacs travel the world with less anxiety.

Why?

After a decade of living and eating my way around the world, in 2017 a routine medical procedure derailed my life and left me disabled. In the years since, my writing went from travel narrative to more universal experiences like grief and how you get through times where things fall apart. One aspect of travel writing that remains: gluten free guides to countries around the world, as well as the detailed GF translation cards that accompany them. With 29,000+ cards sold, it's wonderful to be able to help celiacs even though I can't travel myself any longer.

What should we read?

Full Catastrophe Living, by Jon Kabat-Zinn | When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodron | The Brain’s Way of Healing, by Norman Doidge | The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elizabeth Tova Bailey