At the end of May, a woman posted a video of Patrick Stewart, an actor best known for his role on Star Trek, speaking at Comicpalooza. I don’t know about Comic-con or Comicpalooza or any of these sorts of conventions except what I learn on Big Bang Theory. However, almost 4 million people have watched …
Domestic Violence: Looking at the Root Part 1
(photo credit to Rene Asmussen) Our culture raises men in an environment where he dare not be seen as weak, but as “tough”. The men in this culture have been raised by men who have been boxed in by the culture–to not be seen as open and gentle. Violence is accepted as a part of …
Hump Day Nudge: Staying
I read this story last week, and was moved on multiple levels. Lisa M. Fenn is a producer with ESPN, a sports network…and she clearly and unabashedly crossed the neutral line of journalism and got in deep with the folks of one of her stories. She smashed the neutralism of journalism and stayed with a …
Understanding Mental Illness
Glenn Close knows mental illness up close and personal. She’s determined to reduce the stigma attached to mental illness. This is personal for Glenn Close. Her sister, Jessie Close, has struggled with mental illness to the point where it seemed to her that suicide was the route to go…and she told her sister what she …
The cost of the beauty brainwash
Our culture today has made it hard to see true beauty. Folks are literally bombarded with thousands of images per day of “beautiful women”. Problem is, those beautiful women in the ads don’t exist. The women that posed for those ads, wished they looked like the women in those ads. Beauty that is unreachable and …
Hump Day Nudge: Honoring a Memory with Lavish Joy
Aaron Collins was a guy who had a quirky sense of humour and fun. He’s dead now…died last summer. He was all about experiences, not possessions, and so when he died, he asked that any money he had would be shared freely with folks who could be impacted by it. His family went for pizza …
Porcupines, tenderness, sex…and men?
This quote struck me hard. I’m not a guy…that’s not rocket science. But I do work with guys. A lot. And I get to see the tender, soft parts of guys more than most women. Some women might not even know there are tender, soft parts to some of their men…but there are. Oh. Yes. …
Meet Deanna Carpentier
Vulnerability sucks. No getting around it. It’s hard to be vulnerable. However, as a person who witnesses the courage of folks who daily choose vulnerability, I also see the incredible rewards of folks who choose to dare to be vulnerable. It’s good to be smart about vulnerability…to choose a place that is safe. Counselling can …
Hump Day Nudge: A Lil Good News
Today is Wednesday of a short week…is it Hump Day already? Yep…and I’m loving that. Some of you may feel like it’s been a long week already…some have heavy hearts…some have triggers of sadness in July… …some might just need to borrow a smile from another for a little break today. Take a peek at …
Walking on new patterns
I love walking…this time of year has me outside any day that’s not raining. There’s something about walking that creates space for new thought…quiet spaces seem somehow different in a way that’s hard to explain. Walking feels good…and after, knowing that there has been a healthy long walk, it feels great. Walking forward creates movement …