Trauma and Mindfulness
With My Certification Trauma is something we are hearing a lot about lately. Trauma is a universal human experience. Trauma can be big events or smaller ones that accumulate over time. Trauma, while none of us would wish it upon ourselves or others can be healed and...
50 Classes
As I was sitting waiting for class to start at Orange Theory, I flashed past myself. I know it makes me sound a bit, well you know, cuckoo. What I mean is on the Marquee Screen this photo, taken to celebrate the 50 classes I have taken, flashed by, repeatedly. I did...
The Film
When I was a little girl in school in California, we had educational films. You know the kind with reels and a projector and the teacher had to feed the film into the reels and that was sometimes tricky, or so it seemed! Does anyone remember those? Anyway, one of...
Obstacles
Many thanks to my Colleague Jason Bernic for this insightful image. People ask me every day, what does a Life Coach do? I like to say I am an Obstacle Buster, but I am not sure that answer explains it as well as this image, well we do say a picture is worth a thousand...
A Canada Day Message
Happy Canada Day. I am grateful to call this beautiful country home. One of the most powerful tools we humans have is our thoughts. Our thoughts create so much of our reality and we have something like 60,000 of them a day. The great news is we can choose thoughts...
Practice
" What ya doin", I said to my housemate, ( the one that just graduated with honors in biochemistry and genetics). " Practicing making your special dinner" she replied! It had occurred to me to ask her to make a special Chinese dinner before she goes home to China. "...
Graduations
What a moment it is, eh? The Graduation Music wafts in and the graduates march in to take their seats. All the work, the papers, the presentations, and the marks are done, and now is the time to celebrate. Martin and I found ourselves sitting in the Great Hall last...
And she said, “Why Not?”
For many of us, if not all of us, the last couple of years of the pandemic has been a big challenge. We have had our worlds turned upside down and every which way, with masks, isolation, and rules, and on and on it goes. Just as we might or might not be exiting the...
Orange Theory Saga
So, at the end of February or so, I started going to Orange Theory. It required a big mindset shift for me, cuz I had all these little worries about going! Sort of like, being too old, too weak, or too something or other. I found my way around those obstacles and have...
The Universe Speaks
There are a few things I know for sure in this life and one of them is that the Universe has our backs. She wants what is good for us, what is best for us and she will help us find our way! If we listen! The trouble is we don't listen and sometimes we don't hear her....
Apology : Living Reconciliation Apology Matters in Word and Action
While Ruffus and I were out for a run ( and a sniff), yesterday, we passed this sign. I was so taken with the message that I turned around and took this photo. The whole rest of the run I was absorbed in thinking about it. Ruffus, on the other hand, focused on the...
My Angels
There is a spot on Highway 101 in Nova Scotia, known as the Valley Highway, and each time and I mean every time, we pass that spot, we say thank you out loud and once a year on October 5th, we stop, and we get out, that is my husband Martin, our dog Ruffus and I get...
Law of Attraction
You may have heard about this law of attraction stuff...... in a nutshell it means what we think and do and believe we attract into our lives. Kind of like our thoughts and energy are magnets and they attract stuff in our lives. So the theory goes, if you want more...
Life: Shitstorms and Sunshine
I don't know about you, but when I was younger I sort of thought things like " I will be happy when everything is fine in my life" Like plenty of money, great job, no one sick all the things. I really thought that there would come a time in life when Shitstorms...
No More People Pleasing
I am by nature, the world's biggest people pleaser. The People Pleasers People Pleaser. I say yes, when I want to say no, I try to keep others happy before myself, including BTW strangers and clerks in stores that kind of thing. It was/is pretty bad. I want to tell...
Thought Fitness
Thoughts When we think of fitness and wellbeing, many, if not all of us think of taking care of our bodies, right? What we eat, drink, and how much we move our bodies. We go to gyms, count calories, and drink water to stay hydrated, we pay attention to our bodies and...
Start Living: Try Something New
"Whose dumb idea was this anyway"?, I grumble to myself as I head out the door to my first Orange Theory Fitness Class! I briefly considered blaming it on my baby sister who had suggested it, but even in my nervous state, I laughed at myself at the absurdity of such a...
Once Upon a Time……
Once upon a time a long time ago, I was a young, young Mom with two little girls and far away from home in a foreign country and married to a beast of a man. He had a terribly violent temper and was abusive in every way imaginable, he controlled all the money, the...
Our Island
In the middle of a lake, in the middle of Nova Scotia stands an Island, and you know what? She is our Island! Yep, my husband and I own an island and I have to say she is spectacular. Majestic, beautiful, soft, light, gentle, and innocent. She sits there, day in and...
Happy Thanksgiving
Our Island Gratitude. What does that mean to you? It is not a platitude of giving thanks at Thanksgiving, with the turkey and cranberries, or saying thanks for a lovely gift at least for me that is not gratitude. For me, it is an attitude of gratitude it is a practice...