The First Step

Interested in this conversation around Ferry Creek and saving these Ancient Trees? 

In this episode I talk to a forest friend about why we should care and options and ideas about how we might want to move forward.

If you want to have your voice heard PLEASE write your MLA. 

Call Horgan (1-250-387-1715). Call the Minister of Forestry (1-250-387-6240).

Let's stand up for these last intact ancient forests.  

It was my pleasure to talk with Jim Cross about his experience in the forestry industry and what his take was on preserving the Ancient Forests in and around Ferry Creek, here on Vancouver island, BC.

Have a listen to expand your awareness of this issue. Sustainability. Resources. Our planet. Our policies. 

Add your voice to the conversation. These are things all humans rely on. 

Do we care enough to save them? Have you thought about how you can get involved? How you can use your voice? Are these trees and water worth protecting? 

Read more about the issue here from the people who are on the ground protecting these tall Ancient trees:

https://laststandforforests.com/?fbclid=IwAR0SDB0h12TNRTd9Y-jnqk6XdgNopH3h68gHMD0bLPQFYc9cBc4kjor8Ef4

I was grateful to speak with Bob Rabin about how he stays so full of energy and Joy. Have a listen to hear Bob talk about how he fell in love with watching the weather and how not having a family car gave him more appreciation for moving mindfully on the Earth. His stories and insights give us clues as to how we too can get the most out of life and living.  Talking with Bob made me realize how important it is to give a platform to people who grew up in a time before technology took over. 

It was a great pleasure to be able to sit down with Diane Long and ask her some questions about Yoga. Meeting Diane 15 years ago was an incredible blessing on my Yoga journey. I am grateful to be able to continue to learn from her today. I thought asking her some questions about the practice might give us all a bit of insight. Diane has been teaching Yoga for decades and continues to practice and grow. I encourage you all to find a teacher you can trust, someone who can guide you and help you develop your own Yoga practice. 

Check out this candid talk as I get to know Sam Tieleman - Marriage and Family Therapist, who specializes in couples impacted by porn addiction. I wanted to hear what he had to say about this topic because it is of growing concern in our world. I think everyone should educate themselves on this topic, especially parents.

To educate yourself about this growing problem check out this website for statistics: https://polarisproject.org/2019-us-national-human-trafficking-hotline-statistics/ but don't stop there! 

The pornography industry is worth 97 billion dollars! (https://fightthenewdrug.org/by-the-numbers-porn-sex-trafficking-connected/)

As uncomfortable as this topic makes some of us feel, if we don't see the truth of what is happening behind the porn industry, we are contributing to the existence of this abuse.

I love Sam's take on healing and his message of telling us we are not alone in our suffering, pain, or shame and his optimism that we can heal. There is always a first step we can take! Be brave.

Find Sam here!

And here is another good book by Kerri Isham - to help parents teach kids about pornography:

https://www.powerupeducation.com/product-page/the-things-we-can-t-unsee-picture-book

Claire Lafferty joins me for our second chat around health and wellness. She brings a wealth of knowledge from her study and practice of Ayurveda and Yoga. We discuss the importance of looking at the global health crisis from more than one perspective.  We go into what it means to take care of our health vs handing it over to someone else. We touch on the discomfort of getting closer to truth and embracing our many emotions not just the pretty ones. I hope you will enjoy this candid discussion where we do our best to stay courageous in expression of what we know to be true, even though so much of this dialogue is being shut down in the wider world.  We hope it will encourage you to find health on your own terms.

Enjoy this candid talk with my wonderful friend Claire Lafferty. We discuss the basics of what is Ayurveda and what are some simple tips people can use to help their digestion and improve their health and wellness over all. To find out more about what Claire does or get in touch with her:

Click here > Claire Lafferty Wellness 

Have a listen to learn more about what a Quiet Practice is. I talk with Margo Rush about her meditative practice and share a little about mine. To find out more about Vipassina meditation check out www.dhamma.org and to find out more about the Quiet Practice check out https://seql.net/quiet-practice/.

Anyone can develop a meditation practice. All you need is your breath and a willingness to close the eyes and spend time inside. Reach out if you want to learn more from me: [email protected]

Sheila Mary, writer, teacher joins me to talk procrastination, perfectionism, taking risks and re-defining success. I have so much respect for this lady and it was my pleasure to talk to her about her journey with confronting her own fears, or self - critic to discover she CAN get our of her own way and create the life she wants to live. Sheila has been practicing Yoga for decades and we share what our mindfulness practice has given to us; the awareness of sensation in body and then therefore the ability to be with it; and let go. I hope you enjoy our candid discussion and can take away a first step if you haven't already developed your own mindfulness practice and felt the benefits.

You can find out more about Sheila here:

http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/author/sheilamary-koch

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilamary-koch-content-writer/

It was so fun to talk with Autumn about her experience with healing and recovery. We speak about what leads us to developing coping skills and addiction.  We talk about connection and correcting course. We touch on diverse approaches to recovery, instead of a one size fits all approach.  We invite listeners to reach out when the realize they are off track. I hope anyone that listens realizes there is help and to lean in if they need guidance or support.

https://rocklifestrategy.ca/

https://yogajil.com/