Abstract: September/October 2006, Volume 60, Number 5 AFirm Persuasion in Our Work,” a continuing series in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, features autobiographical briefs that mark profound engagement and rewarding careers in occupational therapy. The stories featured have transformational power and can be used as inspirations for sustaining our deep commitment to practice. The narrative of our work journeys can reveal knowledge about leadership and courage. Work journeys are full of adventure and drama with unpredictable and nonrational events (Whyte, 2001). When I was asked to describe my work journey, I thought of the concept of place integration described by Malcolm Cutchin (2004), a geographer and ally of occupational therapists. Like Cutchin, I believe in the perspective of locating my professional identity in the place or spaces that have surrounded me during my work journey. Place integration is more than location in space, for it includes the coordination and reconstruction of social, cultural, and physical environmental elements in order to adapt. My professional identity emerged from my journey within the various places I practiced. Identity is a developmental process by which one recognizes to which group one belongs. This sense of self unfolds in stages and changes over time in various settings. The relationships I encountered in each of the places I lived, and the culture of those places, helped shape my identity as related to my work role and functions. These relationships also defined groups or individuals with whom I did not identify, also known as symbolic others (Abreu & Peloquin, 2004). In this piece, I describe experiences of place integration in four geographical spaces, each of which helped to shape my professional identity: Puerto Rico, New York City, Los Angeles, and, presently, in Galveston, Texas.