Tag: life

  • I Don’t Want to Play Anymore

    TRIGGER WARNING – This post discusses depression, intrusive suicidal thoughts, parenting conflict, perimenopause, and legal struggles. Please take care reading — and see the resources at the end. There’s a phrase that’s been running through my head lately: I don’t want to play anymore. It sounds childish, maybe even selfish. But in truth, it feels…

  • Navigating the Justice System: A Maze Without a Map

    I never realized how impossible it is to navigate the justice system until I was thrown into it myself. You would think there would be one place to go for answers, or at least a central point of information, but that simply isn’t the case. Instead, the justice system is a patchwork of different departments,…

  • Starting Over: Job Hunting After a Lifetime of Running My Own Businesses

    I haven’t looked for a job in decades. Since I was 23, I’ve been an owner and director, building and running businesses through recessions, family crises, sleepless nights, and survival. My name is still on the paperwork. I’m still a shareholder and an executive director in several of these businesses. But after an ex-parte motion…

  • Cutting Toxic People Out of Your Life: Boundaries, Healing, and True Friendship

    Why You Need to Cut People Out of Your Life We live in a world that tells us more is better—more friends, more connections, more family around you. But the truth is, keeping the wrong people in your life—whether they’re family, close friends, or just acquaintances—can drain your energy, reopen old wounds, and hold you…

  • When Systems Fail Our Children: A Mother’s View

    Yesterday was supposed to be a joyful milestone: my son’s first day back at school after the summer holidays. He had been bouncing with excitement, jumping up and down, thrilled to ride the bus and see his friends. For a child with some social interaction challenges who has been attending counselling during the summer, this…

  • Surviving Back to School Season: Parenting, Health Scares, and Fresh Starts

    This was the year I was going to be organized. I said to myself. Somehow the summer vanished in a blur, and of course the last two weeks were jammed with so many activities that I feel like I now need a vacation from our vacation. Sorry teachers—my kids are being returned half-feral, with mosquito…

  • Rapids, Wolves, and the Real Joy of Being Myself.

    “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller I’ve learned recently that Helen Keller was right. Life has to be a daring adventure — because the alternative is to simply exist, and existing isn’t enough. If you never take risks, never laugh at the wrong turns, never feel your heart…

  • Ready Isn’t a Feeling It is a Decision

    I read something the other day that’s been echoing in my mind ever since: “You’ll never feel ready because ready isn’t a feeling, it’s a decision.” It hit me because it’s true in ways I wish I’d known years ago. For so long, I thought I had to feel ready before I could act. I…

  • From French Vanilla to Financial Freedom: Investing After Financial Abuse

    💸 Even If You’re Starting with $10, a Broken Heart and Nothing Left I don’t have a pension. Not because I didn’t work — I did.I raised kids. I managed a household. I helped build businesses from the ground up..But I wasn’t the one with the paycheque. That was by design. And when it all…

  • Invisible Strings: What Still Connects Us After We’ve Broken Free

    A personal reflection on survival, trauma, and reclaiming connection Have you ever felt like something — or someone — is still quietly connected to you, even if they’re no longer in your life? Maybe you’ve heard of the Invisible String Theory — the belief that people who are destined to meet, help, or love each…