“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” Rosa Parks *Note: for those of you feeling oversaturated with content and looking for something actionable, please scroll to the end where I’ve written a summary and bullet point process you can...
We Are Leaving: A Nation Of Women With Wings
Bell Hooks puts into words a question I ask myself on the regular: “How do we hold people accountable…and yet at the...
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How to Take the Pressure off Parents
Despite this oft repeated adage “it takes a village to raise a child”our society seems to have headed in the opposite direction...
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How Learning Languages Promotes Peace
Language has been a hot topic in Quebec (where I was born and raised) for as long as I can remember. I’ve had ample time...
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“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge” Tuli Kupferberg What are some of the key paradigms, or ways of thinking and seeing the world, that need to shift in order for us to view learning differently? Are we recreating patterns in our...
Conscious Birth A couple of years ago I took a two week course on spiritual midwifery with Uva Meiner, a midwife from Costa Rica. She gave the workshop at my mother’s retreat center, Heartroot Farm, in the Eastern townships of Quebec. Though my...
I come from a mixed heritage background. West-Indo-European would be one simplified way of describing it. On my mother’s side Irish and Scottish meet Trinidadian-Indian and on my dad’s Welsh, English and roots somewhere in Scandinavia add to...
I was sitting with a philosopher friend of mine discussing life and its many joys and trials when he came out with something along the lines of “anxiety is actually just grief that we’ve had to try and deal with in isolation.” “Now...