In Between Visits

Meet Natasha Moine!

Natasha is one of those people that you just want to be around.  Natasha's quest for beauty in life combined with her fierce courage and commitment to live authentically is her gift in this world.  I just loved this time with her. 

As a lifelong student and now a teacher of yoga, nutrition and energy since 2004, Natasha fell in love with the possibility of feeling great in mind, body and soul.  Her passion and purpose are to guide students to reconnect with their bodies through creative movement and breath.   

In this interview, we discuss how our personal practices around yoga, fitness and nutrition have evolved.  We connect about our own beliefs of body image and what it means to be a woman and align deeply with what we want for our daughters.   

We share what we see as the biggest aspect for personal transformations and how to show up in a supportive role for the people in your life. 

Tune in now for this beautiful heart open conversation. 

Meet Natalie Gagnon!

Trained as a Speech-Language Pathologist, Nat has created a unique holistic approach to the services she offers in her field.  As a yoga teacher with 20 years of experience in the area of wellness, mindfulness and work-life balance Nat brings a wealth of knowledge and an individual approach to each client who seeks her out.

Natalie continues to evolve and grow in both her personal evolution as well as the professional skill set.  In addition to her expertise in yin yoga, Natalie has a true passion for essential oils and has extended her studies with the masters in the field.    She is also committed to growing her knowledge and experience in the area of mindset principles. 

Sharing her healings in many different ways, Nat's career expands beyond the hospital and educational setting as she offers her wisdom into private practice.   You can also connect with Natalie in the many workshops she creates and leads in the areas of yoga, essential oils and mindset.

With so much to offer you really need to listen to this incredible woman has to say about individualized health, creating community and collaborating with like-minded women.

Meet Caroline Watters! 

If you are ready to go deep and want to learn how to live from that place, you need to meet Caroline Watters.  In this episode of Sharing Journeys, I chat with Caroline about what it means to truly know yourself and how to live your life from this place.    This is such a good conversation. 

Caroline is a highly sought-after life and business coach, inspirational speaker, reiki master and meditation facilitator, with 18+ years of professional marketing expertise and over a decade of working in energy medicine, Caroline delivers powerful offerings for women who are looking to achieve the ultimate success in their lives and businesses.

Founder of RISE Women in Business, Caroline truly believes that heart-led women are the evolutionaries, change-makers and wayfinders of our time and her passion for igniting potential and purpose is undeniable

If you are not yet convinced how much you need this women's offerings in your life, then take a listen, you won't look back, I know I didn't.

Meet Roxanne Joly! 

I am very excited for you to listen to the newest series of my podcast called sharing journeys.

I get to sit down with some of the most inspiring and influential people that I have had the pleasure of crossing paths with to understand what makes them incredible and how they show up in service for others.

The first in this series is from a long time gem in my life who shares her journey as a Seeker!  Roxanne Joly, Yoga teacher, Reiki Master, Shamanic Healer, Avedeic practitioner and mother of two.

Roxanne has been practising and teaching yoga for over 20 years.  As a pioneer in the yoga industry, Roxanne opened her own yoga centre in 2002 so that I could share the beautiful benefits of yoga within the community

After outgrowing the role of yoga centre owner and becoming a mom to 2 beautiful girls, she sold the business so that she could deepen herself in healing service by offering yoga, Ayurveda, reiki and shamanic teachings.

Roxanne has spent decades growing both as a teacher and as a human being in her personal growth and has studied with great teachers like Rod Stryker and Pete Bernard.

Roxanne’s essence along with her passion to bring steadiness, calmness and joy to her students is a gift that all who cross her path receive.

But I am going to let you find that out for yourself now, take a listen...

Lifestyle Choices during Isolation.

If you have not listened to any of this series yet, my recommendation is you start here!  In this sixth and final episode, I discuss why mindset is the most important aspect of how you show up for yourself and others during this time of crisis.  

I explain how the pandemic with it's a global and personal impact requires a similar process to that of any other grieving experience.  I emphasize the need to ask for and give yourself permission to receive any and all the support you need.   

I check in to ensure that your internal dialogue has not translated into a message that you are not doing enough, behaving wrong and/or should be having a different experience than you are.   I ask that you accept yourself and others as an act of love. 

I call on the two big mindset anchors of intention and compassion as tools to assist you as you navigate your thoughts, feelings and choices 

And finally, my biggest message is that you have my support, love and care.  Please do not do this alone!

Lifestyle Choice during the Isolation!

Let's get physical, physical, I want to get physical, let's get into physical... Okay, all cheese aside, in episode five, I discuss why daily movement is a non-negotiable requirement during this time.    

Now that we are well into week five,  most of us have and/or are feeling a lot of anxiety, depression,  sleep disruption, body tension, aches and pains.   I explain why this is the natural physical reaction when faced with high levels of prolonged stress combined with a more sedentary lifestyle. 

I share with you the natural remedy to these symptoms and offer advice around how to implement more movement into your life during the pandemic.

I inspire and motivate you to find ways to increase your physical activity that will ultimately provide you with the much-needed benefits we are all craving right now.

Lifestyle choices during Isolation.  

Anyone else giving themselves a free pass for more donuts, wine, coffee and chips?  I know I have been!  I also understand that it is time to shift away from these patterns and turn towards true self-care.  In part four of this series, I help you identify how your choices around food may be reflective of how you are processing (or not) the impact the pandemic is having on your life.  I get firm (with love) about how using food to avoid, distract and escape from having to feel and deal with the realities of this situation will only cause further suffering.   I ask you to move from dissociated eating and create space for mindful nourishment that brings with it aspects of pleasure, joy and connection through food.   I leave you with a simple yet highly effective plan that uses mealtime as anchors to create a positive rippling effect with all the choices we make throughout the day. 

Lifestyle Choices During Isolation 

In episode 3 of this series,  I tackle how our stress reaction is inevitably influencing the lifestyle choices we are making at this time.   I explain the typical pattern of the nervous system when faced with fear and help identify if you are experiencing fight, flight or freeze tendencies. 

In a reality where our health goals of yesterday may no longer be the same priority today, it is still essential to set intentions for optimal health.  I leave you with a few strategies for ways to implement healthy habits during the pandemic. 

Lifestyle Choices During Isolation 

Want to know how to improve sleep during this time?  I am not sure how to begin to answer that question, but I give it a solid effort in this part two of the six-part series.  

In this episode, discuss the impact that the pandemic is having on our sleep cycles.  I ask you to accept this disruption as part of the process of life during a time of chaos and uncertainty. 

I share mindfulness techniques and ask you to become curious about the effect your lifestyle choices are having on your sleep quality. 

I leave you with some ideas on ways to manage the inevitable sleep challenges that you are having during this time.  

Lifestyle Choices During Isolation

In this part one of a six-part series, I discuss the natural stages our minds and bodies will go through as we begin to process and accept the global and personal impact that ss having on our lives.

I share the importance of finding a new normal in your day to day life at a time filled with so much uncertainty.  I ask you to recognize and give yourself permission to feel the inevitable emotions like fear and grief that are a result of the pandemic. 

Finally, I offer an approach that shifts you from the use of distraction, avoidance and control as a coping mechanism to finding the anchors in your day that will provide support for mind, body and soul.