Goodness Blog
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What lights you up?
Read more →What lights YOU up? What makes your eyes light up? What makes your heart pick up its pace? What could you talk about for HOURS? What brings you joy? Over the last 7 weeks, I have spoken with hundreds of women around our province of Saskatchewan. Hundreds. (I’m still in a ‘holy sh*t, how did that happen?’ fog, not gonna lie.) One of the most beautiful things I witnessed while speaking with these women? When they talk about the things that light them up. Their faces start to sparkle. They get a twinkle in their eyes. They literally light up....
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Do you have courage to make a change?
Read more →(Photo credit: Karen Levesque) ‘Thank you for sharing your story.’ As I travel around the province, I keep hearing this comment...over and over. This is directed not only at me, but at our panel speakers. Women who attend our events are often floored by at least one of the stories that they hear. Why? Because they can relate. They KNOW what it’s like to already go through that story. OR they’re just starting that story. Divorce. Quitting their job. Moving. Starting to date again, after a breakup. Deciding to get married. Deciding to adopt. Taking control of their finances....
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Being authentically yourself.
Read more →Happy Monday everyone! As you know Amanda is in the midst of her Saskatchewan Sisterhood road trip right now so it’s Christy here, popping in with this weeks blog post. When we were in the planning stages of the Road Trip, we had a pretty solid plan for how we were going to map out the summer months for this blog and the surrounding social media posts that would accompany them. This map has been working great, however we didn’t have a solid plan for how emotions and feelings were going to play a factor. After all, we didn’t want...
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Women supporting women
Read more →I’m sitting here in my current B & B outside Pangman, SK, on a Friday morning. Yep, I’m writing this post early...by the time you read this, I’ll have moved on to Kenosee or Yorkton. But I wanted to write this and share with you, regardless of timing. I’m brainstorming on my designated topic this week, which is ‘women supporting women.’ You see, I’ve had a topic every week to write about. I love these topics. They transfer over to Instagram and Facebook, in the form of graphics, questions, and conversations. But right now? I am sitting in this B...
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Finding our way out of the roles we play...
Read more →At the end of our Eatonia event, one of the attendees came up to me. “Thank you for coming to see us. Tonight was great! It made me realize how much I play the roles... of mom and wife and daughter… and how little I take time for myself, to be myself, with nobody else to look after but me. This evening let me do that. So thank you.” Wow. Isn’t that simply beautiful? That awareness. Kudos to this woman, for attending the event and the effort that it required: organizing childcare, preparing food, planning out the evening with her...
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Never apologize for taking up space.
Read more →Do you ever just observe people? If you’re like me, you let people simply talk. And while they talk, you listen. But you also observe them. Not in a creepy way. But in a simple ‘what else is going on here?’ kind of way. I do it as a way to dig deeper. Because I’m so curious about people, I try to get to know people better. And I often notice things. This week, I’ve talked/observed with many, many, many people. And one theme I’ve noticed? We’re afraid to take up space. This week, I met brilliant women while on...