When I was in my early twenties I had a miraculous healing experience that altered the trajectory of my life. I know this may sound kind of crazy, but it’s true.  I was in my last semester at Dalhousie University in Canada and was finishing my undergraduate degree in science and had picked up an […]

I remember the first time someone suggested to me that maybe there was a gift to be discovered in my experience of being ill; I thought they were mad. In fact, I was f*$ing furious. How could anyone possibly suggest that being covered head to toe with red, scaly lesions that were so painful and […]

I was in yoga class this past Saturday and the yoga teacher said something that truly resonated with me. I was twisted up like a pretzel in eagle pose trying not to lose my balance, when she said to the class, “Let your body be your teacher.”  Hearing those words immediately caused me to tune […]

A lot of us have the belief that there are good and bad emotions. Good emotions are things like happiness, joy and curiosity. Bad emotions are things like anger, shame and sadness. We have been taught and socialized to believe that we shouldn’t feel any of these negative emotions or worse still express them – […]

We’ve all been there. Someone has said something, we’ve seen something on social media or something happens that triggers us to feel fear, shame or anxiety and it sends us into an emotional tail spin. It’s not fun and surely not how we had hoped to spend our day but it happens. So rather than […]