Our focus this year at Women’s Weekend is ‘In the Spotlight’. What does that mean to you? Who’s spotlight are you standing in? It’s not an easy question to answer and I have been thinking about this lately. A few weeks ago, my message from the universe said something like, ‘When you are stuck in your stuff and want to react, throw something, scream at someone or just eat a [...]

I love to look up and see the geese flying over and know that they take turns at the helm and take turns at the back of the pack. It’s like what I believe of leadership,’ that a great leader knows how to lead and also, how to follow.’ Phyllis Nielsen sent me this lovely clip and story about geese and now I get to admire them even more.                                                             [...]

On Thursday evening in Nanaimo, McKenzie Brown will be sharing her story.  She has written a book titled ‘Walking on Eggshells: Living with Psychological abuse and Codependency.’ It’s a story many of us know; men and women, children and seniors. It’s a story many people have come to accept as normal behaviour. Codependency is something many people don’t know that they have. My own book speaks of me being a [...]