Category: Wellness
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Finished … My Book
There is a scene in the beginning of the movie, ‘Romancing The Stone’, when the introverted female lead finishes typing the last page of her book, then launches into a celebration. That involved putting cat food onto a china dish for her feline room mate and pouring herself an airplane mini bottle of drink. Then,…
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Crisis and Creativity
Spring has been a buzz of activity. I find this season tends to bring waves of urgency, kind of like a twister of wind. You have a sense of what is to come but until the force makes land fall, you don’t really know what you are in for. That is the best way to…
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CreaSpaTreat 2019 is filling up
If your schedule is open this Fall, consider joining the first CreaSpaTreat event in Crescent Beach, British Columbia. The purpose of a CreaSpaTreat event, as an addition to daily creative activities, is to temporarily leave behind the usual distractions we all face. Gift yourself time; long enough to allow for rejuvenation of creative energy. A small gathering…
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Chasing Summer
Last year as we travelled around the world, we had a desire to stay warm. We wanted to be living in sunshine. As the days began to shorten in Canada and fall was in the air, we arrived in Barcelona where it felt like we had dropped back into summer. It was only the last…
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What is a CreaSpaTreat?
The time is almost here. It feels a bit like waiting for Christmas morning when I was a kid. It was not so much the presents, but more the anticipation. The surprise and delight was grand. I’m always hoping to get that feeling back. As an adult, I find it rather difficult to acheive. But,…
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The road to CreaSpaTreat
I have had my head down writing for what seems like weeks. Every morning on the bus ride into Vancouver, lunch time if I can manage it, sometimes in the evening and every weekend – my attention has been focused on writing the CreaSpaTreat workbook. This will become a really cool multi-media looking piece which…
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The Fifth Season
I have not posted in a while. What I was planning to have complete, is not. I have been working on the pillars of wellness, but in truth, it is a daunting research project. I love the process and it is therefore taking me down all sorts of wonderful rabbit holes. Stay-tuned, it is coming.…
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The Happiness Budget
UN’s Human Development Index creates a yearly World Happiness Report, which outlines a number of factors believed to contribute to wellbeing or happiness. This information is another way to gauge how well a country is doing rather than relying solely on the financial metrics in the GDP. After all, the financial prosperity of a country…
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Burning the midnight oil & money does not buy happiness
The head of a major car company was in the news recently. He sent an email to his staff at 1:20 in the morning urging them to work harder in pursuit of the company’s goals. This message was wrapped in platitudes which no-one could argue with. Ideas like, ‘the importance of saving the planet’, were…
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3 sacred spheres of space and time
As I settle back into my early morning bus ride, which I had a three-week break from, I am reminded of the different spaces we inhabit on a regular basis. Our work, home and the ‘in between’ space which splits up our days into convenient little chunks of time, otherwise known as the ‘commute’. Evidently…