Everyone has a deep, embedded need to be understood. It’s one thing we all have in common no matter what age or demographic we come from. When we are understood, we feel like we belong – and belonging is powerful....

I have spoken to audiences from adults to youth about connection. I have given out surveys, researched, and initiated conversation with numerous people around the topic of connection and here’s something I’ve learned. Everyone...

Our world is full of heated arguments from people who have experienced deep wounding from others. We are living in a day where the wounded are not staying down. They are rising, refusing to be pushed around any longer. They’re...

There is no shortage of pain on the earth. How many feel abandoned, rejected by friends or family? How many are abused and mistreated? Domestic violence, trafficking, injustice, poverty, terrorism, racism and war are rampant in...

What picture comes to mind when you think of Jesus? What about those who surround you in your every day life? Home? Work? School? “What picture comes to mind when you think of Jesus?” is a great question to ask people who want...

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...