As season one of The Taming Crazy Podcast comes to an end, we’re revisiting the topics that have made us laugh, grow, and connect. When I wrote Taming Crazy: Confessions and Lessons, I never dreamed that it would lead us to share stories on-air. I cannot thank Deb and Sue (my lovely co-hosts) enough for…
An estimated 1.2 million Canadian children and youth are affected by mental illness yet only 20% of those children will receive treatment according to the Mental Health Commission of Canada. These numbers should alarm us. These numbers should have us asking what can we do to ensure our children are mentally and emotionally healthy? Our children’s…
I’ve been thinking a lot about vulnerability lately. I even wrote about how painfully vulnerable I felt when I finally pressed the publish button for Taming Crazy-Confessions and Lessons. To be honest, being vulnerable is scary. Yet it’s also rewarding because the more you talk with people about the raw, truthful moments, the more they…
There’s been a lot of criticism on social media lately about why women (and men) take so long to come forward with accusations of sexual harassment or abuse. Apparently, the mere fact that accusers have waited years to come forward invalidates their stories in some way. Skeptics have denounced them by claiming that if they…
It started with a simple idea. What if we could create a group, a community, a sisterhood of women over 40 who want to create a better life for themselves. A life free of worry and self-doubt, a life worth living, a life to get excited about. What if we put our own self-doubts and…
If you could go back in time and meet your 10-year-old self what would you tell her? Most of us would tell ourselves not to worry so much, that things will work out, that everything will be ok. After all, that would be true, things do have a way of working themselves…