In the light of Easter, I ponder: is Jesus white-man’s religion? The multi cultural artists I work closely with are rising up with questions concerning colonialism and desiring the true freedom of those who feel they were...

“Rates of depression and anxiety among teens have increased by 70 per cent in the past 25 years.” – Geradine Bedell Of the twenty years I’ve worked my resilience movement program in schools, I have noticed a dramatic...

If pink shirts were enough to stop bullying, it would have already happened. It’s time to get underneath to the actual root issues and rewrite the story. But what IS underneath? If we can address those issues in our schools we...

I’ve been petrified of not belonging. I will avoid feeling on the outside at all costs, and yet there I often find myself – outside. Close but not close enough.  Good but not good enough.  Wanting to be seen for who I am...

It’s time to rewrite the stories of the broken. it’s time for those who feel imprisoned by chains of anxiety, depression, disorders, shame and isolation to find freedom. it’s time for lives that have been devastated for...

People are your temperature gage for how much you actually love God. In a world where people love God there is no racism bullying hatred indifference anxiety When people belong – it looks like the kingdom that Jesus had in...

In my journey of studying addiction I was led by the question of “WHY?”  Why do people find themselves in deep rooted addictions when we all know that no one dreamed of that as a child.  What happened?  And why does 1 out of...

One in five Canadians are experiencing a mental health or addiction problem.  In fact, people struggling with mental health are two times as likely to have a substance abuse problem coinciding (Centre for Addiction and Mental...

We as parents have the capacity to make a difference in our children and see them live a life free of addiction.  What I’m about to write it’s going to be hard to read.  Believe me, it was hard to write.  To bring freedom from...

No one dreams of becoming an addict as a child.  No one woke up one morning saying to themselves, “I think I’m going to become an alcoholic today.”  So then why does it happen? I know for myself, it happened suddenly when my...

I have two boys, both of which have ADHD.  My oldest son has anxiety/depression, asbergers, and has also been given a diagnosis of Oppositional Defiance Disorder, which I personally do not believe exists.  There are indeed...

Thank you for joining me on my journey through advent.  I probably didn’t go in order.  I’ve always been a little unorthodox… I had a friend call me recently asking me to pray for him.  His psychic told him he was spiritually...