A Soul-Inspired Pre-Solstice Field Trip Friday, June 12 | Parksville, BC What if the next level of your life doesn’t begin with pushing harder, but with listening more deeply? We live in a world that constantly asks us to optimize. Move faster. Produce more. Perform better. Yet very little invites us to pause long enough…
For nearly a decade, I worked as a personal trainer and performance coach. That work became part of the foundation for everything I now call Transformation, by Design. Thousands of hours. Hands-on. Human-to-human. Supporting people through the deeply personal process of embodied change. One of the most powerful moments in that work was watching the…
We don’t talk enough about what it actually takes to move through transformation. Not the idea of it. Not the inspiration. But the lived experience of it. There’s the moment where you’ve made a decision. You’ve set a new direction. You’re stretching into a new level of your life, your leadership, your health, your capacity……
In the days leading up to my mom’s transition, I told her over and over again: “I’m so proud of you. I’m so proud of you.” Ruth Sanjenko lived a simple, yet profoundly significant life over her 94 years. She was kind, gentle, and endlessly giving. Throughout her life, Ruth cared for more than 30…
“Our choices won’t change until we truly believe a more compelling story. And as much as we want to, the world won’t change until we ourselves become active participants in the expansion of consciousness and the restoration of healing of all things.” – Richard Rohr My Christmas wish in 2021 for ChangeMakers is that we…
When PowHERhouse launched in October 2013, I hadn’t yet reconnected with or confirmed my Indigenous heritage. I had no idea I was building a space of healing, transformation, growth, and readiness-generation for myself or other self-identified changemakers. And yet, as I reflect back on the past 8 years with foundational roots dating back to 2000,…
December 30, Love Letter 25 of 25 WHO IS SHE? SHE. She is ME at 60. SHE. My future self who I steadily (most days) walk towards. SHE calls me higher. SHE. Clearer, stronger, braver, lighter with each and every deliberate decision. Horses, healing, and harmony, her oceanside-lived experience embodies Coming Home. SHE. Grounded, content, at…
December 28, Love Letter 24 of 25 WHO IS SHE? SHE. She is Miss Z. SHE. My teacher, my FireDancer, my soulmate. I’ve been lucky enough to be hanging out with Miss Z for the past few years. SHE. Is a 19-year-old Canadian mare who knows she’s the boss. We met when I was ready…
December 23, Love Letter 23 of 25 WHO IS SHE? SHE. She is Miss Willow. SHE. My step-daughter, my teacher, my friend. I first saw her when She was just five or six walking on a gym treadmill. SHE. Fiercely independent already… We met again when She was nine. SHE. Came to spend the summer…
December 22, Love Letter 22 of 25 WHO IS SHE? SHE. She is WE. We are three. SHE. Tina, Christina, and me. Stronger together, plugging in, powHERfully. SHE. A braid of friendship, deliberately woven with each decision. With choices are no longer for ME and only for US. SHE. Walking together, stretching bravely into all…