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Music with a Message Series Episode 2: Missing You Memorial Song
Sometimes there are just no words. What really needs to be expressed is emotions, and we don’t always need words for that. Maybe it’s just tears, or your body will get you moving, or you feel it in your stomach, or some other part of your body. Maybe your body will stop you in your tracks and you can do nothing at all.
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Music with a Message Series Episode 1: Gotta Be Me
We’re all wandering around on this planet trying to do our best and we all have our own individual experience… and we are all connected! You’re not alone in any fear or doubt or anxiety or grief you feel. We are all having some kind of a human experience on the planet right now, so on some level we get each other and we are each other. In other words, I’m a little like you and you’re a little like me.
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How to Expand through Unexpected Outcomes
I won’t get into making goals for yourself because I’ve published articles on that already. I will say that it’s still important to set goals for ourselves. What if you knew that every moment of every day presents you with new life, new opportunities, and literally brand new cells in your body? That is all #truth. And it’s one principle that has helped me get through the tragedy of my son being taken from me by gun violence. Here’s what you need to know when you set important goals, and when the outcomes are nothing like what you hoped...
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How to Hold Space for Grief, Love and You
My journey with grief began when I was just 15. We all grieve differently and every loss is different. Sudden violent deaths are way up there on the devastation meter, whereas death by natural causes can be not as difficult to deal with. But again it depends on who you are, your life experiences and how you deal with hardship and heartbreak. I know grief can be confusing and hard to manage. Please don’t deal with it alone. Find friends, or maybe an organization, therapist, counsellor, elder… whoever feels right for you.
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How to Ride the Waves of Spiritual Expansion
You know that moment when everything is going just amazing for you, and then poof, something puts a wrench right in it? All this beautiful expansive energy in motion for so long and then it just dissipates. But does it? So I get to this amazing sweet spot of pure joy and expansion from hours and hours every day of working on my next music album a couple of weeks ago… Total bliss songwriting, practicing, singing, recording, experimenting, and then…
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How to Stop People-Pleasing and Be More YOU
So you know how we all have kind of our own unique style? And that shows up in our homes, workplaces, clothing, makeup, hair etc. Or doesn’t. How much of that are you doing for YOU? How much of that are you doing to please other people? How much of YOU do you really really love? That’s what I explore in the video, with some tips and dares for you. And of course one of my cats had to join us lol! Sukie is our rescue cat, our youngest. She’s so sweet.
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What to Do When Life’s Surprises Kick Your Ass
I don’t know about you but sometimes it feels like life is kicking my ass. The past 3 months have been mostly a living hell for me. I kind of knew this was going to happen, because losing a child to murder leaves you with court, the media, unanswered questions and unbelievable grief. Since it’s been beyond my control and very foreign to me, I had no idea what was in store for me. It’s true that the only thing we can control is ourselves – our choices, responses, actions, thoughts, and how we choose to live, given whatever circumstances we have at any moment.
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Why Resolutions Fail and What to Do Instead
Resolutions. To do or not to do? What to do instead? New Year’s Resolutions rarely work, because they are based on peer pressure, which is based our innate instinct to fit in and belong. What if you make this year about what you desire, about self-celebration and commitment to YOU? What if you create an action plan that works for you and build in supports and resources to help you if self-sabotage comes up? Here's how to create a year of accomplishment, success and happiness...
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How to Create Light in Difficult Times
Chronic pain, grief, loss, heartbreak and stress affect a lot of us in different ways. On top of that, winter can be challenging to get through, especially here in eastern Canada where we experience all 4 seasons (and sometimes all 4 in the same day lol!). With Winter Solstice coming up, the Sun will soon bring us more light each day, but even then, we have a lot of cloudy days, and difficulties can sometimes seem to take over our lives.
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The Time is NOW to Celebrate YOU
Instead of being able to fully celebrate and have a party like I do every year for my birthday, I won’t have the energy, time or headspace to pull that off because I’ll be at the murder trial, holding space for justice for my son. NOW is always a good time to celebrate yourself.
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