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…
My wild-hearted wisdom circle
As soon as I began to imagine Lead with your Wild Heart, I knew that it would be a program that would bring together the wisdom of a broad circle of people. I started making a list of the authentic, vulnerable, and wild-hearted people that I admired and that I knew...
Why men need to care about rape
Twenty-five years ago, a man climbed through my apartment window and raped me in my bed. When I fought back, he wrapped his angry fingers around my throat, shoved my head between the wall and the bed and tried to choke me to death. When he finally left my apartment, I...
Coming back to my wild heart
Ten years ago I was lost. I had just returned to work after my fourth and final maternity leave, and I was completely miserable. Not only was it hard to leave my baby every day, but I was in a job that didn't sustain or inspire me. All it did was drain my energy every...
A circle of writers (what my workshops and classes are like)
It's another Tuesday night and I prepare once again for my small circle of writers. I arrive early and place the low round table in the centre, covered with the colourful tapestry that comes with me to every workshop. Like the threads of the tapestry, many stories...
The value of being lost
It was remarkable how many people responded to my last post, through emails, comments, and Facebook posts. Repeatedly people said some version of: "YES! This is what I need too! I've been feeling so lost and your post felt like permission to tear up the maps and...
My lack-of-vision board
Every few months, I like to make a vision board. It's my feminine, right-brained version of strategic planning. Instead of filling a page with boxes and goals and strategies, I fill it with images and words plucked from magazines that I feel drawn to and that my...
Return to your Wild Heart
I have seen too many wounded women. I have watched them lose the light in their eyes when the shadows overcame them. I have heard a thousand reasons why they no longer give themselves permission to live truthfully. I have seen too many wild hearts tamed. I have...
What happens when you change the definition of success?
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing...
A place in the woods
Some days when all it takes to make you cry is a heap of dirty laundry and an empty bottle of laundry soap, and you can't stop viewing the future through the lens of your self pity, then the best that you can do is find a place to sit where nature holds your wild...
Finding hope in the middle of the tough spots
Yesterday, Ronna Detrick and I (and the women who'd gathered in circle with us) had a heart-opening conversation about pilgrimage, community, story-telling, and feminine spirituality. (You can listen to the recording here.) I love having conversations like this...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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