“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...
21 Tips to Creating Less Daily Waste
1) Re-framing Freedom What underlies many of these suggestions is the task of re-framing our conception of what it means to be...
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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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5 Great Ways to Get Grounded
The majority of us living “modern” lifestyles struggle to maintain a healthy balance and connection to our bodies. We move less...
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To me, the title of this post encapsulates the crux of most modern-day existential and relationship dilemma’s. How do we go about balancing this, relatively recent, cultural obsession with personal freedom with the unavoidable reality of...
Despite this oft repeated adage “it takes a village to raise a child”our society seems to have headed in the opposite direction. The nuclear family model and pressures of modern society leave little space for sharing the task of child-rearing...
Sometimes the universe conspires for certain things to cross our paths. This was the case for me with John O’Donohue’s book “Anam Cara.” The book poetically explores a whole slew of ideas stemming from the Irish/Celtic concept (anam cara) which...
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...