Two days before this photo was taken, I was lying on a yoga mat in Costa Rica, roaring so loudly the facilitator had to turn up her sound system. I had never done anything like that in my life. No plant medicine. No psychedelics. No drugs. Just me, my breath, a jade egg, and somewhere between five and fifty minutes that I honestly cannot account for. Because my soul left my body. Let me back it up… It started, of all places, at my 25-year university homecoming. Queen's Univer

Six weeks ago my daughter stood at the starting line of an 80m hurdles heat in her running bib and jersey, no spikes on her feet just normal running shoes, only having jumped a real hurdle in a race setting before. Track was for fun! It was the cities competition in Toronto. She won her heat. We weren't expecting this at all! Then we ran to SickKids. She sat in that hospital waiting room still in her bib, hospital bracelet now on her wrist alongside her race number, and recei

Throughtout my career as a coach I have been asked so many times, "So what do you actually do as a coach?" It took me some time to get concise and clear on what I witness daily, but then it landed one day... I help people figure out who they really are and what they truly want. You are not your name. Not your age. Not your job title. So — who are you, really? Sounds like a simple question. But honestly? Most people have never sat with it long enough to find out. And when they

There is a question I have been sitting with lately, and I want to ask it to you. What emotions were you allowed to feel growing up? Because if you were raised anything like most of us, the list of forbidden ones is painfully long. Don't be angry. Don't yell. Don't beg. Don't plead. Don't want too much. Sit still. Be good. Be nice. Be quiet. We were handed this invisible rulebook before we even knew we were reading it, and we learned early and deeply that whole parts of ourse

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Have you ever dreamed of picking up your life, relocating for a period of time in search of more calm, fulfillment and fun? Would you...