Goodness Blog
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Are you censoring yourself?
Read more →Here I am, sitting in my office in St. Brieux. I’m rocking out to ‘Dirrty’ by Christina Aguilera, circa 2002. Yes. ‘Dirrty.’ The same song that I shook my ass to at the bars I frequented while in university. This is mortifying to admit. Even more embarrassing? I’ve had it on repeat all week. “Why the hell am I so drawn to this song right now?” I ask myself. When I remove my judgment of myself for being a dork, I realize I’m loving ‘Dirrty’ for two main reasons: This song caused such a stir back then because of its...
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I've been transformed.
Read more →I have been transformed. Yep. That sounds very dramatic, doesn’t it? But it’s kinda true. Okay, it’s totally true. Why? This summer’s road trip has 1) cracked me open, 2) made me dig deep, and 3) truly left me with a new perspective on humanity. While the road trip was all about connection between people, it was also a very personal experience for me. The crappy thing? I don’t know exactly know how to put it all into words. But I'm going to try, so I can share with you. (The other alternative is your simply reading my mind and...
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You asked, I answered.
Read more →While I clearly don’t have the answer to all of life’s questions, I do have the answer to a few. Yay! (#winning) More specifically, I have answers to questions that our community members asked about Saskatchewan, before I left on my road trip this summer. Now that I’m back, here is my attempt to answer these questions! Curious? Check out the questions and answers below: What are Saskatchewan women most proud of? - Adrienne (@adrienneperrot) I’ve found that Saskatchewan women are most proud of 1) their families, 2) their careers, or what they’re creating, and 3) themselves. These women are...
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Let go.
Read more →'Let go.' 'Let go of the need to control.' 'Let go. Go with the flow.' 'Trust.' These messages have come to me over the last couple of weeks. While they’re a bit disconcerting, they come in various forms: from my go-to healers, from good conversations with my sisters, from a random poster in a store. It's kinda creepy. But the message is getting through. I'm learning to let go. What does that look like for me? Trying to live in the moment. Not getting caught up in the future. While I like to plan, and know what's coming (don't we...
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Use your voice.
Read more →‘Ohhh, shit.’ This is what went through my mind, as I listened to one of the audience members use her voice. I wasn’t thinking ‘ohhh, shit’ because she was using her voice. Nope. I’m all for women using their voices. I was thinking ‘ohhhh, shit,’ because what she was saying was contentious. I could feel the tension in the room rise. Because while she didn’t directly say it, the general theme of what she was saying was: ‘people who don’t say ‘hi’ to me are a**holes.’ In the full context, she was saying that ‘some people are simply a**holes, and...
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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....