IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
A guest post from my daughter Julie
My daughter, Julie, the redhead who's fierce and fiery and not afraid to challenge me to be a better person, showed me the short story she wrote for her grade 12 English class, and I was so proud of her I asked if I could share it. (She got 99% - missed a couple of...
How to make a finger labyrinth (that is also a piece of art)
"Release, receive, and return." That's what the labyrinth invites us to do. Yesterday, I needed to release, receive, and return. I was stressing out about the ongoing tension between "do the thing that brings in money" and "do the thing that's calling you next" - the...
Transition: The empty place between stories
"Something is shifting in my life. I feel lost. Everything I once depended on and believed in feels unstable and unreliable. I don't know who I am anymore." I hear some version of this story almost every week in my coaching work. Somewhere in the middle of their...
What silences our voices?
There are many reasons to be silent. Violence (or the threat of violence) is one reason for silence. When cartoonists are murdered for satire and young school girls are kidnapped or murdered for daring to go to school, the risk of speaking up becomes too great for...
My word of the year is SANCTUARY
Sanctuary. A sacred place. A place of refuge. A place where wild beings are safe in their natural habitat. That's what I want to focus on this year. Sanctuary. For myself and for others. The word came to me while I was working on the prompts for A Soulful Year. One of...
A unique project for a well-balanced year
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard Last year, as the year ended, I shared a special mandala prompt for reflecting on the passing year before you invite in the new year. In that prompt, you were invited to divide...
I think in circles: using Mandalas for project planning
It's true - I think in circles. The circle, in some form, shows up in almost everything I do. When I need to connect with Spirit, I walk the labyrinth. When I want to connect with others, I gather people in circle. When I want to connect with myself, or I want to...
My 10th Anniversary Book + Books Project
Note: Please read all the way to the bottom to find out how you can participate in a special anniversary project and be entered to win a prize. Ten years ago, I started my first blog. It was called Fumbling for Words, because I am a passionate gatherer of words and am...
When the nurturers and conquerors share the power
There is Jian Gomeshi, who beat up women for sport and got away with it for years because we all wanted to believe he really was the charming and likeable man we heard on the radio. And then there is Bill Cosby who drugged and raped possibly dozens of women who came...
You’ve gotta reach out
When Maddy was little, I took her to see Monsters vs. Aliens on the 3D screen. She sat on the edge of her seat in wonder, wearing her 3D glasses and trying to grab the things that came flying off the screen at her. At one point, she turned to me and said with some...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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