My mom was a maker (and long time rug hooker) and making things was her love language. A recent health crisis has brought up fresh grief for my mom. I have found myself wishing we had just one more conversation. I have created From Her Hands to Mine, the first in an Adornment series. It is a…
After a bit of a rocky ending to 2024, I knew I needed a word for 2025 that encompassed lots of self compassion, a sense of ease and more. I’ve been choosing a word for the year for several years. A word for the year is like a signpost that I can return to again…
Are you an empath? Someone who feels deeply what the people around you are experiencing? Do you operate on a mostly intuitive level? People who know you may describe you as sensitive. Having these qualities can be a great asset – for tuning into others, making them feel seen and heard and for a host…
This opinion may be somewhat controversial. I believe that our body produces symptoms when we are out of balance. These symptoms can point to emotional or spiritual issues that need addressing. By producing aches and pains, or other types of illness, our body is giving us clues that we are blocked on some level. By…
Some of my favourite artist dates lately have been going to an art opening at The Muir Hotel True Colours Gallery. I went with two of my favourite artist friends, and my mentor Deanne Fitzpatrick was one of the three artists with work in the show. It was wonderful to connect with old and new…
I’m taking my own advice and practicing self care this morning. Self care is easy to ‘fit in’ when life is not busy. It’s more challenging when I’m busier, or more tired. I know in order to be my best self I need to practise extra self care when I feel this way. When I…
It’s that season in Nova Scotia, Canada where we bundle up in our parkas and sit outside on a sunny day drinking tea and listening to the birds. Each sunny day feels like a gift. A gift of ease and potential warmth. Here’s an excerpt from my journal about accepting gifts and basking: The gift…
My experience is that if I get too busy and don’t make time for down time, quiet time, time to listen, the Universe sends me an ‘opportunity’. My most recent opportunity came in the form of a fall while running in mid-December. I tripped while going over a wooden bridge over the canal and landed…
In my last blog post, I wrote about how to get started in discovering your next steps. The first step was figuring out what makes your heart sing. Listening to your heart takes practice and it requires some down time. Even if your life feels too busy to take some quiet time, try these suggestions…
I was sitting beside a woman recently who said “I don’t know what I should be doing. I’m 50 and my efforts to do x and y have been unsuccessful. I don’t know where to begin to figure out what’s next.” I told her “that’s exactly what I do! I help people figure out how…
I am not lost. I’m exactly where I need to be, where I’m supposed to be right now. Sometimes when we are in transition (just left a job, a relationship, moved homes, are recovering from illness) we can feel a bit lost. Not sure about our future direction(s). It can be hard to remember that…
Whether it’s because it’s halfway through the summer, or there have been too many heavy things happening in your community, or you just need a break, this blog post is dedicated to the play Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s a time to be silly, playful and fanciful. Time to bust out your wildest dreams with a…