Tina Turner: Choosing Life, Choosing Herself
Tina Turner met Ike Turner when she was just 17. For years, he controlled every note she sang—until the day she finally recorded River Deep – Mountain High without him hovering over her. In that studio, for the first time, Tina found herself. It took time, fear, and unimaginable strength, but she eventually walked away […]
Attunement, Attachment & Authenticity
Originally Published: Nov 17, 2025 When Dr. Gabor Maté speaks or writes, I lean in. His work reshaped the way I understand love, trauma, and connection—especially the triad he teaches so clearly: attachment, attunement, and authenticity. Here’s a clip with Maté explaining attachment and authenticity. Attachment is our earliest survival bond.Attunement is the felt sense […]
When Survivors Walk Into Hospitals: What No One Warns Us About
Originally Published: Nov 18, 2025 In my fight to end child sexual violence (CSV), far too often, survivors who are fighting to navigate the aftermath of CSV share stories of medical malpractice. Why so many? It may have something to do with managing Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on top of a current medical crisis. The […]
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 – Not Exactly
Show Me the Money: Erin’s Law, Federal Education, and Canada’s $97 Trillion Opportunity I’m proud of me today: March 18, 2026. I learned more about the money game. Check out my post titled $11.5 Trillion. I love proving myself wrong. I appreciate it when someone else does it too, of course. But it’s even more […]
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, […]