We live in a two-story brick house in a quiet residential neighbourhood. When you walk in the front door, the foyer opens up directly onto the stairs that lead up to the second floor, where all the bedrooms are. A few months ago, the girls were playing with Charlotte, our...
I spent so much of my life thinking small, thinking that I didn’t deserve better. Thinking, Who am I to contribute, to share, to be heard I haven’t done years of research on anyone topic, I don’t have a PhD at the end of my name. But I do have...
Connection We are simultaneously hardwired and starved for it. A recent study cited that over 50% of adults and nearly 80% of young adults admit to feeling lonely. Marginalized communities are even harder hit. (Learn more here.) Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, calls it a loneliness epidemic. ...
Life at home during most of my youth was spent walking on eggshells. My mother and stepfather were what I call functional alcoholics. Work during the day, get drunk every night. Whenever my stepfather came home from work, my mood radar would turn into high gear. Was it a good...
I am not practical…and I’m starting to make peace with that. In my last session with Margaux, or as I affectionately call her, The Coach Lady, we started diving into which roles I feel most energized in and which roles drain me the most. It turns out that being methodical...
