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Oops! My Apologies… My website has been going through some quiet upgrades behind the scenes. These upgrades are still in process but today we discovered that due to some new coding that was just put in, the video feeds throughout the whole site have been down for approx. 48 hours. This means that if you went to utilize any of the …

Yesterday I left my wheelchair in the car – on purpose.

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Yesterday we took our youngest to the Aquarium…and I left my wheelchair in the car. Most of healing does not happen overnight, nor in big, sudden, social-media worthy shifts. Have I experienced what most people view as “miracles”? The sudden ability to walk for example, after a period of being unable to walk unassisted? (In my case due to severe …

My Body Hasn’t Always Felt Like Home

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I live in a body that for much of my life has not felt like home. These days I often don’t recognize it. I’d be lying if I said I never wince at its sight. It doesn’t look like the body that I worked so hard for, so many years ago. The clothing that used to feel most comfortable, no …

From Physiotherapy to Intuitive Healing: How Ancestral Healing Shapes Family Dynamics – with Trish Prevost

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In a world where fast-paced living often overshadows personal growth, Trish Prevost invites you to slow down and tune into the quiet whispers of your body and embrace them as a beacon of transformation. I first met Trish in our Past Life Regression Certification and later won a 1:1 session with her through her social media channels. This session was …

6 Years Ago I Celebrated Remission, Then I Crashed.

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6 years ago yesterday – July 1, 2019, I gathered with friends and family to celebrate the end of my Lyme treatment (4-5 years of it at that point) and the beginning of what we thought was remission. 6 months later my life changed drastically in many ways and I experienced a series of overlapping events (about 3.5 years of …

Summer Solstice 2025

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It’s Summer Solstice! Today we celebrate the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Beginning at the Winter Solstice, the days have been slowly getting longer, we’ve been embracing more light and many of us have been using this time to plant our seeds, whether of intention or physical. This day of Summer Solstice invites us to pause …

I couldn’t have done this 6 months ago; Reflections on Lyme disease, Complex Chronic Diseases and how far I’ve come.

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Barefoot on the earth, morning sun on my face, chicory and dandelion “cappuccino” in hand, bees in the flowers – all things I’m grateful for this morning.  This moment had me reflecting on the early days of my health journey when I was first diagnosed with Lyme disease and co-infections in my early 20’s. A lot of my dialogue around …

Getting curious – Can you meet yourself where you are, wherever that may be?

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Incomplete stress responses, reacting vs responding, expanding your window of tolerance, and welcoming yourself home. An invitation to get curious and allow exactly where you are, to be enough at this time. Getting curious: – how often do you run from discomfort? – are you able to be in the present moment or does your anxiety, rumination, to-do lists, etc., …

I used to…

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I used to scream or drop to the floor crying when someone walked in the room unexpectedly. I used to carry constant tension in my body.  I used to go for massages and feel the RMT’s arms shaking from the pressure they were using and I still couldn’t feel it.  I have very few childhood memories. I used to live …

I heard myself in another Mother today

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I heard myself in another mother at the beach today. The gentle but firm, almost cautious tone.The endless listening as her child did not respond to her questions but continued to share the internal mental dialogue that was running in his mind.The timers, and gentle reminders.The carefully expressed, calculated front loading.The patience and softness in her heart as it was …