My daughter turned two this summer. That’s right – I blinked and suddenly a toddler has entered my world. She’s a firecracker, who’s testing her limits as a typical “terrible two-year-old”, as we so affectionately say at this age! As I write this, I can hear her rumbling around in her room, determined that, today, …
Walking me home
Three years ago, on the September long weekend, I left my Junior Tribe Member at the West Coast. I’ve written before about how I had dreaded the beginning of university for my youngest JTM. It might be irrational, but I felt that after a decade of being a single mom, I was feeling like I was …
An Oak Tree, Planted
Husband and our youngest Junior Tribe Member and I planted an oak tree yesterday. A wee baby oak. I’m taller than she is, and I’m not tall. We picked her out at the nursery on Friday. On Saturday, I went to get the dirt while Husband and JTM dug the hole. Twice as big …
Roshonna’s baaaaaaack…and Natalie’s Nouveau!!
Happy sighs over here…We have our team in place for this fall and I’m so excited with what we offer to Manitobans. In addition to our already great team, there are two new people prepared to launch clients into new and better ways of being connected with themselves and others: Roshonna Plett Roshonna was a …
Connection: Family Meal Times
We are wired for connection. We do better when we spend time together with other people. The first in a series… Family meals are challenging these days. In fall, sometimes seemingly impossible between music lessons, sports teams, parental work demands. With each family member having a different but full schedule, figuring out how to get …
An uncomfortable conversation about a history of white supremacy
I’ve been a regular guest on 680CJOB for several years. Every Thursday at 2:30 finds me in the chair opposite Greg Mackling and Brett Megarry. We talk about issues related to mental health and relationships. Almost every week, I get a chance to say the truest sentence I know: “We are wired for connection” as …
Controlled Separation: A Marriage Coma
The ideas in the article were included in my book, as a part of my passion to help people make their marriages better. Finding ways to change destructive patterns are important…sometimes, small changes can make a big difference. Sometimes, a big change is required to open space for the important shifts that are needed. For …
The lunch that started something beautiful
I will always remember Sunday lunch of the August long weekend with special fondness. It was the start of a somethin-somethin with Husband and I…though it wasn’t nearly the start of our romance. Husband’s wife, Car had died in late winter. In the months leading to her death, I had asked Car’s sister of how she …
Word Inspiration
I love words. My 15 year old self would not believe my current love of words to be real. I knew how to get a near perfect math mark because equations just worked. English was frustrating to me because of its subjectivity…how does one write a perfect essay? Words annoyed me in ways numbers didn’t. …
Introducing Ellie Jack and Ruth Shantz
Change…Hard and exciting. New opportunities and challenges. We like stability and routine, and knowing what to expect. Change is unpredictable, but creates unknown possibilities for new goodness! Change brings grief for that which we knew and loved and let go. Shifts brings excitement for things that are now possible that previously couldn’t happen. Two years ago, …