Last Saturday, an Amber alert was issued in my province for a missing 4 year old boy that had been abducted within the hour of the alert. Gut wrenchingly difficult as it was to read the text broadcast, the hope of finding this little one unharmed far...
Last weekend I did my Level 1 coaching certification in a 3 day intensive. It was brutal and I am aware of just how much cramming information like that doesn't necessarily work to become well educated. However, with my desire to expand my repertoire...
I love to be right. L-O-V-E it. But I have come to observe that my rightness makes others feel wrong and that creates division, anger, frustration and hurt. All at the hands of. . .me, even when I never intended to provoke them. (Not good stakeholder...
I recognize that a global pandemic and the threat of a world war is seen as a golden opportunity for many businesses to take advantage and make a profit. In the early days of Covid-19, we saw everyone making and selling masks. Heck, I have a friend i...
,This famously used poster from WW II Britain now stands as a piece of history that never actually happened. It's an example of the phenomenon given a definition by Douglas Coupland in 1991: “legislated nostalgia”, that is, “to force a body of p...
If you are anything like me, you struggle to set boundaries. For me, I think it’s because I was raised to be in service to others; not due to a love for them but due to a cultural normative expectation of my gender and my appropriate role in society....
People’s words and actions can actually shape your brain. . .what?!? Lisa Feldman Barrett PhD is among the top 1% most cited scientists in the world for her research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a University Distinguished Professor at...
Happy Saturday, ,This coming Monday is Valentines Day. This day is fraught with danger for some as it is often referred to as Single Awareness Day or SAD. In my own life I have spent most Valentine's Days as a partnered, cisgender female. What this h...
,Last week I shared an epic scavenger hunt I planned with my friends for my husband's 50th b-day. On the other end of that event, I can say that it taxed my abilities to use technology and remain calm. I used Instagram to communicate clues for the hu...
,Yesterday, my spouse turned 50 and he thinks the lovely family dinner we had last night was his birthday celebration. Boy, oh boy, did he get that wrong. What you need to know about my spouse is that they're the extrovert in our union. Common a...