Pressing Pause
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Pressing Pause

The beauty of pressing pause is that you make room for a meaningful and compassionate conversation with yourself - time for empowered reflection. You know how we tend to pass people and say, “How are you?” automatically then they say “Fine, thanks” automatically? It’s a friendly but relatively meaningless exchange. Rarely are people actually honest about what is really going on for them. True, it may not be the time or place for a meaningful conversation with that other person. But, for many of us, we repeatedly have this kind of automatic and relatively meaningless conversation with ourselves - or no conversation at all.

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How Does More Confidence and Ease Sound To You?
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How Does More Confidence and Ease Sound To You?

Exploring and harnessing our VIA Character Strengths will be an integral part of the upcoming Retreat. These strengths are considered the “backbone” of Positive Psychology. Research shows it is so much more powerful and effective to approach our lives, work and leadership from our strengths, instead of our weaknesses. And it’s a lot more enjoyable to live, work and lead this way! Indeed, finding ways to bring our top Character Strengths into every day has been found to be key to our well-being.

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Blooming as a Catalytic Act of Leadership
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Blooming as a Catalytic Act of Leadership

What is so compelling about a bloom? The list is long – I am thinking about the power and the vulnerability of a bloom. In a flower, there is beauty, there may be a magnetic scent, and there is the vulnerability of the complete openness of a full bloom. When a woman blooms, there is also so much power and vulnerability. Blooming can be catalytic, an act of leadership.

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Envisioning a Year of Greatness
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Envisioning a Year of Greatness

On January 25, we were a beautiful circle of 11 brilliant women committed to making 2018 our Year of Greatness! And, we felt the connection to the almost 50 other Circles taking place this week around the globe in 14 other countries. We focused on gaining intentionality, clarity and alignment as well as with a sense of the path unfolding in front of us. Finally, we discovered what resources we need going forward to truly step into making 2018 our Year of Greatness.

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Greatness? Who, Me?
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Greatness? Who, Me?

When I first started hearing the call to step into my greatness, my first thoughts were: “Who, me? Who am I to be stepping into greatness?” Feelings of fear of alienating others came up for me. I would look arrogant. People wouldn't like me. But there was an invitation there that I could not and cannot resist. Wow, what if I were to allow myself to play with this idea of stepping into my greatness?

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Reignite Your Divine Spark - SOLSTICE Gathering
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Reignite Your Divine Spark - SOLSTICE Gathering

I am so excited to be offering a special event right in my neighbourhood in downtown Toronto on the Winter Solstice. I’m offering this special event to celebrate the completion of my 2 years of training with Dr. Claire Zammit and my pending certification as a Feminine Power transformational facilitator (yay!) If you have been curious about Feminine Power, this will be an excellent way to get an experience of it!

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