“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...
How to Make Love the Center of Your Life
Sometimes the universe conspires for certain things to cross our paths. This was the case for me with John O’Donohue’s book “Anam...
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Heart-Based Creation
We all have those moments where we find ourselves staring at a blank page thinking….nothing. In fact, I had one of those moments...
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Why Your Anxiety is not Just Your Problem!
I was sitting with a philosopher friend of mine discussing life and its many joys and trials when he came out with something...
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I grew up an experiential learner, guided by my interests and the love of learning that is natural to all humans. (That’s right; I said learning was natural to all humans.). As a teenager I chose to go to public school for the final two years...
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 and opportunity to mull over ever aspect of language as an element of culture and connection (or disconnection)...
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...
To Do or Not to Do To put it mildly, there is a bit of an obsession with “doing” in the current market culture. Productivity levels, infinite growth as a norm, success as climbing the social ladder. We are encouraged to use our time to produce...
I’m writing about this because one of the biggest, baddest monsters under the bed of most creative writers is the desire to please others. One of the most inspiration-crushing reflexes of the artist is to analyze and judge everything that comes...