Your 15 minutes of fame: Be in Thilde’s “Canaries” book

by Earthwalker | Apr 12, 2012 | Chemical Sensitivity News, Electrical Sensitivity News, Featured, NEWS | 0 comments

Danish photographer Thilde Jensen is seeking additional subjects to be featured in her upcoming “Canaries” book, which documents life with environmental illness. Images from her “Canaries” collection have been displayed in the NY Times, Esquire Russia and other online media, and have been exhibited at The Center For Photography At Woodstock and additional venues around the world. In March 2012, Thilde ran a successful Kickstarter Campaign, raising over $10K in order to undertake another cross country trip this spring to complete her “Canaries” series. Thilde is now looking for volunteers to be photographed as she makes her way from upstate New York to the American Southwest.

Thilde knows all too well the difficulties of living with environmental sensitivities; she suffered from the illness herself for many years. The condition broke up her marriage, forced her to relocate out of NYC, and impacted her life in many other profound ways. Taking Annie Hopper’s Dynamic Neural Retraining System™ workshop in 2010 marked the beginning of her recovery, and is what enabled her to embark on this ambitious “Canaries” book project tour.

Thilde’s approximate travel schedule is as follows:

early May: Texas
end of May: Greenbank, West Virginia
mid-May through mid-June: New Mexico and Arizona
late June: Northeast
early July: Pennsylvania

If you’d like to participate in this exciting project, or if you know of someone who may, please send a brief description of your situation and location, along with your phone number, to [email protected]. Although there is no financial compensation for your participation, you will be contributing to helping spread awareness about this devastating, often debilitating, and generally misunderstood condition.

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Earthwalker

Earthwalker is the username that PT founder Julie Genser created for her online interactions so many years ago when first creating Planet Thrive.

Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.

A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.

She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.

In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.
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