This spring and summer, I have been doing a lot of learning about cycles and rhythms in nature. I’ve been delving into how darkness flows into light, life shifts into death, and how winter springs into summer (I’m pretty proud of how I worded that last example). I have gained an increasingly deep appreciation for [...]

Rethinking Menopause at Ladies’ Night Earlier this month I did a mini presentation to a group of women at a car dealership of all places. Funny, eh? Funnier? Once a quarter they host a fun event, called “Ladies’ Night,” where they invite women from the community to attend. I have attended this event before as [...]

Yeah, but is it really working? Recently I was on a ferry to visit my home town. I parked my car on the vehicle deck and trekked upstairs to empty my bladder before settling back in on the car deck to read my book. In the last few years they have been upgrading the facilities [...]

Self love has come up a lot in conversation with friends and patients this week. This sparkled me to dig up an old article I wrote when I was in Naturopathic College. It is a candid reflection of success, failure, and unconditional love for self and others. Hopefully there will be some tasty tidbits in [...]

Clarity from a Kid One beautiful afternoon, my neighbour asked of me a favor. “Will you climb the hay bales with me?” I should clarify that this neighbour is a nine year old girl. “Uh… I have to do some stuff inside on the computer.” I was looking for excuses. I didn’t really feel like [...]