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Today Is Enough

25 August 2016 by [email protected]

I barely slept last night. My youngest had a horrible stomach ache and squished in with my husband and me. We tossed and turned, as much as three people are able in a creaky double bed, and then all efforts at rest ended when she began throwing up around 7 am. We are on a work-holiday in beautiful Banff but …

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7 Reasons I’m Breaking Up With Wine

6 August 2016 by [email protected]

I am breaking up with wine again. At least for 6 months, possibly forever. I can’t commit right now. I awoke early this morning knowing this is the day. But the truth is, over the past 5 years that I have been drinking any alcohol again, I have known many times that it was a bad idea for me. Though …

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Get Clear On Your Game Plan

11 June 2016 by [email protected]

You can’t actually have or do it all. At least not in the same season of life. Every time you say yes to one thing you are saying no to another thing. Or another someone. Too many people push uphill through life this way, no clear game plan, head in the sand, tossed to and fro. Unhappy. Each and …

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My Kitchen: the healing, beckoning heart of our home

3 June 2016 by [email protected]

For the past two decades, I have chopped, sautéed and soaked my way around cultural food preferences, food allergies, and food anxiety. I have negotiated with teens sometimes frustrated by my real-food standards. Non-compliant food budgets have been wrangled into submission and I have relaxed at table, organic coffee in hand, delightedly crafting menu plans. …

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Are You Lonely?

5 May 2016 by [email protected]

As an introvert I seek out solitude and rarely spend time with people beyond my family. My brain only has so much bandwidth and I am generally busy filling it to the brim, drippy, with other people’s words from podcasts and books. I find myself laughing along with the banter, happily immersed in the dialogue, nodding my head in …

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Ready For Change: Just Take the First Step

28 April 2016 by [email protected]

I think we often know when it is time to step out into change or when change is coming, unbidden. When we need something different. A seismic shift. The details may be cloudy and we may feel afraid. But deep down we often know. When I was 20 years old and living in England, unhappy, needing a hip replacement, binge …

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7 Ways I Simplify for a Slower + Purposeful Life

28 April 2016 by [email protected]

Inside: Not everyone desires a slow life, but most of us care about a purposeful life. Here are 7 ways I simplify for a slower and purposeful life. Time to pause and think and chat with a stranger in the grocery line. Breathing room to linger over books or watch movies with my kids cuddled under the well-used rag quilt. …

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Joyful Living in a Stressed Out World

13 March 2016 by [email protected]

Inside: The overarching framework that has helped move me from stress, anxiety, and depression to joyful living in a stressed out world. On Monday (part 1) we took an introductory look at anxiety and how pervasive an issue it is in our society. Today, I would like to share an overarching framework that has helped move me from stress, anxiety, and depression …

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Be Still My Anxious Heart: living with chronic anxiety

12 March 2016 by [email protected]

We can all experience a measure of anxiety at times in our lives – a sense of worry, unease, nervousness, or apprehension. Sometimes this is tied to a particular and definable circumstance – waiting on a medical diagnosis, experiencing loss of a job or loved one, or preparing for an important exam, as examples. But many people, young and …

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Move Your Body in Nutritious Ways

19 February 2016 by [email protected]

Do you like to move your body? I have never been an athlete and used to rather skillfully avoid sweat at all costs (gym teachers loved the O’Reilly girls). I am still too sedentary, largely due to hibernating much of the winter and have some limitations on my movement due to a hip replacement. But regular, JOYFUL …

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When the world is spinning wildly – Just Breathe

25 January 2016 by [email protected]

When the world is spinning wildly and you’re doing your best to keep up but always feel that little bit behind. Just breathe. Expand your belly. Pause. Exhale. When your muscles are tight and you feel frustrated, wound up, ready to snap. Unfurl your body, widen your stance and stretch your arms out behind you to open …

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What if All I Want is A Mediocre Life?

17 January 2016 by [email protected]

Inside: What if all I really want is a small, slow, simple life. A mediocre life. A beautiful, quiet, gentle life. I think it is enough. What if all I want is a small, slow, simple life? What if I am most happy in the space of in-between. Where calm lives. What if I am …

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When You Get Off Track Get Back to Basics

10 December 2015 by [email protected]

Maybe you’ve had a few sleepless nights, or job layoffs all around you are stressing you out, or your work-family-rest balance has evaporated into thin air, and you find yourself cranky, anxious or tired out. You are not feeling how you want to but this isn’t the time for a dig-deep life overhaul. Get back to basics. …

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When Your Brain isn’t Working Properly: How to Eat Your Way Out of the Fog

18 October 2015 by [email protected]

Inside: After my third baby was born my brain fog reached frightening level. This post offers 6 tips to help reduce brain fog and boost memory and focus. My third pregnancy was challenging in many ways- I knew I was depleted nutritionally and emotionally. About two months following the birth of our youngest daughter I crashed. My …

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I Wanted to Die: An Exploration of my Journey Through Depression

4 October 2015 by [email protected]

I tried to die three times between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Nothing horrible had happened to me. My parents loved me and I was safe and provided for. But I didn’t want to exist – I didn’t feel like I was cut out for this world and wanted to escape. One way or …

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10 Calming Strategies for When Tension Mounts

21 September 2015 by [email protected]

You create your menu plans and a weekly rhythm and have a half-decent system for managing your finances. You work to stay organized and even have a strategy in place for self-care. But life throws you a couple of curve-balls and you miss some sleep and someone dies and Revenue Canada audits you. And the …

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why i aspire to good enough

8 September 2015 by [email protected]

Inside: Experience and a tenacious spirit have taught me that life does not have to be perfect to be beautiful. That I do not have to be perfect to be beautiful. To not allow perfect to be the enemy of good. I can choose good enough. This post contains referral links. I am a recovering …

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Self Care for a New School Year

31 August 2015 by [email protected]

Like many of you, I am sure, I adore the fall. The changing colors, promise of pumpkin-everything, perfect weather for wearing ‘cardis’, scarves AND flipflops.  As an ISFJ I also enjoy the return to more predictable routine and getting everyone and everything organized for a new school year. At the same time, anxiety and overwhelm can …

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