The Journey to Spiritual Awakening: Beyond Thinking | Eckhart Tolle
Originally Published: Nov 11, 2025 My commitment: the next 38 years of my life will be spent fighting to end child sexual violence—with justice and love. To sustain this, I need to manage my thinking: how much, and when. This isn’t a sprint—it’s a long run. And one day, I’ll hand the baton to the […]
The Shape of My Brothers’ Voices
In the trees, I find myself again.Nature pulls me home.I chase Mandelbrot’s fractals in bark and river lines—patterns repeating like a warm, rough hug.The wind carries my brothers’ voices,the water keeps their rhythm,and when my hands sink into the soil,I breathe.I touch the infinite.The fractals remember us—their pattern, our pattern.I am still with them.We are […]
$97 Trillion
Show Me the Money: Erin’s Law, Federal Education, and Canada’s $97 Trillion Opportunity You want people to move?Show them the money. I’m about to break down why education needs to be federal, why Erin’s Law belongs in the Constitution, and why protecting kids from sexual violence isn’t just “moral” — it’s the smartest business decision […]
Rebuilding My Brain, One Breath at a Time
I’ve been practicing yoga for years. After a botched surgery on April 10, 2024, I was left with a brain injury. I’m healing. I’m rebuilding. Maybe I’m even coming back stronger. Yoga, walking in nature, meditation, The Beyond Addiction program offered by Sat Dharam Kaur and co-created with Dr. Gabor Maté attending The Gatehouse support […]
Call It What It Is: Child Sexual Violence
Having been a student, a staff member in student services, and an educator, I can say this plainly: I hate the business of higher education. It’s grim. Just yesterday, a friend called it “horrid.” And yet, I love learning. I learned deeply during my master’s degree at Wilfrid Laurier University, and I carry those lessons […]
The Long Game: When Enablers Become Predators
Writing Breathing the Night Out didn’t just help me heal; it brought everything into focus. It revealed the uncomfortable truth about the women in my childhood and the ways they enabled child sexual violence. The Hidden Scale of Child Sexual Violence in Canada In Canada it is estimated that 1 in 3 girls and 1 […]
The Original War Sometimes Hits Us Like a Football
On November 6, 2025, Marshawn Kneeland, 24, defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys, took his own life—just days after achieving a spectacular milestone: his first NFL touchdown. I don’t do football, I’m not a man, and I’m not Black—so on the surface, you might say I don’t have to fight that fight. But I do, […]
When a Storm Learns to Speak!
Originally Published: Oct 14, 2025 I feel like a kid with a new toy. 🎉 When I finished writing my book, I was so exhausted I could barely spell my own name, let alone form a sentence. I struggled to write my acknowledgments for all the incredible folx who carried me through the last 18 […]
Learning to Breathe in a Pinball Machine
Orginally Published: Oct 15, 2025 As someone fighting to survive child sexual violence, from time-to-time, I move through a minefield of emotions just to make it through the moment. Because of my C-PTSD, some days feel like I’m trapped inside a broken pinball machine—lights flashing, alarms blaring, everything stuck on fast and furious with no […]
Healing Happens in Relationship
Originally Published: Oct 16, 2025 Healing happens in relationship. Child sexual violence also happens within a relationship. And children grow up fighting to survive that relationship. Because relationships shape who we are, healing must also happen within relationship. That’s what led me to The Gatehouse in Toronto — a brave and safe space where facilitators […]