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  OOPS! This is a blog that didn’t get posted in 2024. But, as Community Lead for Bow Valley Giving Tuesday, I am happy to report that we hosted two great events — one in Banff [...]

Spring Rites: Write right Question for you – are you interested in using your journal as a way to improve your self-awareness and self-acceptance? Or are you more interested in deepening [...]

I finished my book in November, launched it in December and realized in January that my motivation and energy had been consumed. After any heavy project, it is normal to expect a phase of [...]

An Ecology of Gratitude: Writing your way to what matters, my debut book is on track to be launched early in November. Structured as a 30-day series of anecdotes and writing prompts, I use my [...]

Has it ever happened to you? You were having a conversation with another person who just posed a question. You then took a deep breath, paused and replied, “Well, I hope so.” To which [...]

Sometimes, we all need to stop, smell the flowers and hit pause. With our limitations on social gatherings, I am at risk of getting too introspective and deep into the weeds with my Grassroots [...]

A year ago, I offered a “Gratitude Goes Live” online series via Zoom. The goal was to connect people to each other and find reasons to be grateful, even when COVID was separating us [...]

I grew up in a family where admitting that I was feeling bored or sad, was a sure way to be handed a rake or a broom or a cleaning cloth. Rather than admit to my mother that I was feeling lost or [...]

When was the last time you heard the expression: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater? Whenever a conversation approaches a threshold or a pivot point and change seems inevitable, [...]

I gave myself the word ‘Gratitude’ on December 31, 2019 with a commitment to research the topic – the science,  its benefits, my relationship to it and how to do it better. What [...]