The women who shape our lives Today is International Women’s Day, a day that commemorates women’s fight for equality and liberation within the broader women’s rights movement. It brings focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. When I think about this day, my mind goes in a million directions. I think about the women who have influenced my life. My mum showed me that a woman can be a strong mother and partner while also pursuing a...
27 days ago • 1 min read
The power of loosening your grip As I write this, all that remains are the Closing Ceremonies. The final medals have been awarded. Some athletes have already gone home. Others are packing their bags. There are celebrations, disappointments, and quiet reflections. And I have reflections too. I’m thinking about Lindsey Vonn, who gave her comeback everything she had, competing with a torn ACL in her left knee and a partial titanium replacement in her right. After five surgeries (four done in...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
The quiet work no one sees Alex Bilodeau, Gold Medal, Sochi 2014 (Men’s Moguls) This past week, like so many Canadians, I found myself holding my breath. Watching athletes step onto the Olympic stage, knowing that behind those few minutes lived years, sometimes decades, of quiet, invisible work. Canada celebrated its first gold medal. Our pairs figure skaters stood on the podium after trying for 15 years. Fifteen years of showing up. Of falling. Of coming close. And continuing anyway. It...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Putting the Joy Back In This past little while, I noticed something quietly but clearly: I had slipped out of my flow. Not because I was doing too little, but because I was doing things with an edge of pressure that didn’t belong there. Somewhere along the way, joy started getting crowded out by urgency, and even the work I love began to feel like something I had to make work, rather than something I was invited to explore. Letting joy lead. What brought me back wasn’t doing more.It was...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Remembering Catherine O’Hara Catherine O’Hara, whose joy belonged to the world. The loss of Catherine O’Hara hit me hard this week, as I know it did so many - a Canadian icon we were so very proud to call our own, and yet someone who never really belonged to one place. She belonged to the world. And perhaps that’s because the way she lived - with joy, whimsy, humility, and deep attentiveness - is so universally human, and so deeply needed right now. Catherine had a rare gift: the ability to...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Trusting the current This month I’ve been doing Gabby Bernstein’s manifesting challenge, and on Day 8 we were invited to choose a sign — something specific that would let us know we’re on the right track. The sign I chose was a river. Flow finds its way. Almost immediately, it started appearing everywhere. Billy Joel’s River of Dreams came on. Then Sarah McLachlan’s “I wish I had a river I could skate away on.” I pulled a Planetary Wave card that read, “You’re being called to trust the...
2 months ago • 1 min read
The conversations that don't need an opening line There are people in our lives we make small talk with — and then there are the few we don't. The ones where conversation starts deep and stays there. The ones who leave us feeling more ourselves than when we arrived. We don't have any small talk. And I'm realizing how much that matters. Earlier this week, I met my friend Rachelle for dinner. It was one of those evenings where conversation stretches time. We talked for hours — the kind where...
3 months ago • 1 min read
When you don’t have the map — but you keep walking When I look back on 2025, what stands out most isn’t what I set out to do — it’s what unfolded when I stayed open, even without knowing where things would lead. Taking stock before moving forward. At the beginning of the year, I had intentions. Hopes. A general sense of direction.What I did not have was a clear map for how so much meaning, connection, and impact would arrive. And yet, step by step, door by door, the year kept inviting me...
3 months ago • 2 min read
An Invitation to Play — Without a Purpose As we stand in this in-between space at the end of the year, it feels worth pausing — not to plan what’s next, but to remember what once brought us alive. For those of us living multi-path lives, joy and play can quietly slip away, not because we don’t value them, but because we’ve become so good at making everything purposeful. I was “late” sending this week’s email.And honestly? It doesn’t matter. Because joy doesn’t run on schedules — and neither...
3 months ago • 2 min read