We moved into our house in 2009. It was our first house after living in a series of condos. We love this house. It has felt like home since day one. I still remember walking into the primary bedroom bathroom and loving the glass-walled shower. It was a sign. I...
You ever find yourself shelving your life’s mission for what is comfortable? For what is seemingly dutiful? Do you feel you are living someone else’s purpose rather than your own? It happens to me. It happened today. I had carved out time this morning to write my blog. To create....
The spark that ultimately lit the fire that is now karmadharma started 20 years ago in a psychiatrist’s chair. Dr. Gil Zimmerman, to be precise. I was 28 years old and recently decided to walk away from everything and everyone I knew for a shot at love, a shot at...
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...
“Who wants to be the leader?” I smile as I scroll through the Zoom participants on my screen, wondering whom the instructor will select, yet intuitively knowing he will call my name. “Karen, what about you?” The invisible “I’ll go first” sign is something I’ve always carried–in life and in...
