User:Sofieday

Sofie Day, born on the 5th of May 1974. Sofie lives in London. In 2000 she met & later married the love of her life, not a love as in movies, slap bang, wham! - but the love as in true strong love, forever building, forever growing, forever changing into something more beautiful. Greg Day. Sofie Day has 2 degrees, she went to University both in Belgium, her home country & in England. She has a degree in Business Management & one in Performing Arts. She studied for the performing arts degree, solely because she found it hard being a foreigner & her intellect being under estimated. It is true that she would not have remained in the UK was it not for the fact her husband is an English gentleman. Still she picked the performing arts degree also because she needed more confidence being vocal... and she achieved it. She has always felt a bit lost as she was highly artistic as a child but was forced by her conservative dad to study for something sensible... as a teenager she had highly desired to study at an art academy but she ended up doing a boring diploma in Accountancy & Information technology instead...

... then her mum disappeared (long story, she ended up finding her in the UK, it's not the reason why Sofie ended up living in the UK too but it was a small contributing factor),... all this caused Sofie to fall behind/ away from her life's destiny,... Sofie had to become a mum to see her own potential and to grab life by the horns and make the most of every opportunity coming her way.

8 years since becoming a mum Sofie has blossomed as a person and also professionally. She is now a professional, trained, registered, licensed, and experienced however, most of all passionate body piercer, who loves doing temporary tattoos as a hobby. She is constantly going on seminars/ workshops to keep her piercing skills up to date with modern methods. She absolutely refuses to pierce with piercing guns and do not take up positions with piercing cowboys = studio owners who go for the cheap (but absolutely not cheerful) method of gun piercings. She is also a trained addiction recovery auricular acupuncturist constantly training to increase my knowledge/ in the field of addiction recovery She loves working with bodies & minds and she loves the idea that she makes people beautiful on the outside (with piercing) and inside (with acupuncture) and keep them sane, simply by listening, chatting lots. Her heroes are any-one who is anything of any value within the professional world She's in - to put it in simple terms: She loves all those people who are already true masters in the field of addiction recovery, body modification, tattoo artistry, piercing... & any other related areas of expertise - She admires any-one who has become truly great at the field they've decided to be passionate about, whatever that is. She could name a few people here, but there are always new heroes emerging. She likes working with people who’re a bit different in general… Since 2011, alongside her body piercing career, she has embarked on gaining experience in the field of addiction recovery. She has a lot of personal experience, through family & friends, with addiction issues. She is not continually changing career, I am transferring my skills set and changing direction corresponding with her personal growth. She sees herself ending my career path within the field of addiction recovery. To aid her quest of transferring my skills into a career in the field of addiction recovery she has completed a 4 day auricular acupuncture for addictions workshop at Belmarsh prison and so getting certified/ registered with Smart UK - the UK's leading organisation for addiction ear acupuncture. She has also trained with Smart Recovery UK in facilitating recovery groups for any addictive behaviour. Since August 2012 She has been working for one of London’s leading addiction recovery charities. She doesn't see an abrupt end to her successful career in the body modification industry. She does like piercing still, she just feels the opportunity for growth is limited & the wage structure does not reflect childcare needs. She is passionate about helping people change for the better and her career within the field of addiction recovery is truly reflective of her inner desire to create a slightly better world.