When I first met Dr. Gordon Neufeld in person in the fall of 2017, after I had the opportunity to interview him on video, and then get his autograph on my copy of the book “Hold On To Your Kids”, I said to him with gratitude “ Your insight into parenting has restored my confidence […]
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Dr. Deborah MacNamara, author of Rest Play Grow on #Motherhood #LetsCreateAVillage, the podcast series with Julie Cusmariu
Anytime I get to hear Deborah MacNamara speak or write I am always moved and come away so much more informed and feeling uplifted and inspired. I had the privilege of hearing Deborah MacNamara, Ph.d, author, educator and clinical counsellor, speak twice yesterday. I laughed, I cried, I felt enriched and wanting others […]
Change of Heart (from my previous post on ‘ Being down on winter and motherhood in winter).
Change of heart today (in reference to my previous post ‘being down on winter’). Thanks to acknowledging my emotions, my resistance, my frustration, my dismay, my disbelief, my discouragement. Thanks to it being welcomed here and offline. Thank you. Thanks to the power of energy in motion. Moving it, expressing it and having it be […]
Does the world need another podcast?
I asked this when I started my podcast up again a year ago, with a new series #motherhood #letscreateavillage, after it’s original launch in 2009 as an online radio show called Heart Beat. I asked this when I noticed the podcasting landscape had dramatically changed after taking a pause from it for 6 years. I […]
Down on Winter When It’s Still Fall and Motherhood in Winter (in Montreal, When It’s Still Fall).
“For real ? “ Words spoken ever so sweetly and curiously by my 4.5 year old. This time I’m the one asking “For, real?’ Could winter really be here? It’s November. Saying I’m reluctant to welcome winter would be an understatement. I’m not usually one to get down on the weather or nature or cycles, […]
Nic Strack on Motherhood, Coming out as Genderqueer and Shifting Paradigms in Parenthood on the podcast this week.
“Through becoming pregnant and having essentially all of my masculine side be visually erased, people were automatically assuming constantly that I was female, I missed that part of me, I missed it so much…” Nic Strack Willingness, honesty and standing in her beautiful truth, Nic Strack expressed this and more on the podcast. From exploring […]