Early this spring, I took my daughter’s bike out of winter storage. She was so excited to be riding again. After school one day as she headed down a steep hill, she got the speed wobbles and fell face first into the payment. I got the call as she was on her way to the...
Can we repair the hurt that we’ve experienced this year?
Currently it feels like humanity is crumbling from within and it's very values and systems are being questioned. As always, there’s immense value in restructuring systems that are no longer working, yet this constant shaming and cancelling of people, businesses and...
How do we manage our pandemic fatigue?
We are experiencing a wild explosion of justifiable pandemic exhaustion . Clearly, something isn’t working, and there’s a radical amount of finger pointing and frustration. I’m curious if we can find ways to support ourselves and each other that allow for us to move...
What makes for a good apology?
This is a difficult topic for most because apologies have many facets – there’s apologizing to others, having someone else apologize to us and forgiving ourselves. A few weeks ago, when I tackled the topic of difficult conversations, it would have been easy to put...
Where Will The New Year Take You?
Over the years, I've witnessed friends and family members get more settled in their beliefs and become less willing to see new perspectives and different points of view. I've watched as they choose to feed or hold on to anger rather than to forgive and let go. I've...
Does Admitting This Make You Blush?
We tend to associate our own or others’ baggage as a bad thing. We often use it to describe other people, characteristically to describe why we don’t want to be close to them. Maybe this is because we associate a person with ‘baggage’ as someone who is unstable....
Lies Spread Faster Than Truth
After eight months of battling this, I’m breaking my silence to ease some of the built-up pain from rumours that have been created about me. For most of you, you have no idea what I’m speaking about. In reading this, maybe you’ll think twice before using your platform...
The Biggest Challenge We’re Facing Right Now
The more isolated we become, the less opportunity there is to be of service to our friends, family and community. The more we hibernate in our own worlds, the more we fixate on ourselves and become absorbed by our own processes. What makes healthy homes, communities...
The Difference Between Being Broken & Being Broken Open
It’s kind of poetic, the idea of being broken. Being broken allows us to behave in certain ways – generally ways that keep us small. Being broken becomes a badge of honor that we proudly carry along with us. It feels almost righteous, like we have earned something....
Struggling…
My heart rate was increasing, tension was developing in my chest and I was feeling swallowed by anxiety. It was the middle of March, and two things were happening simultaneously: The world as we all knew it was changing at a rapid pace, and in my business I was...