“I was a Child and Nobody Told Me Anything".
I can't fully explain the impact addiction has had on my family, myself, or my father, whose final breath was shared with fentanyl. For...
EMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING OF ADVERSE CHILHOOD EXPERIENCES AND TRAUMA-AWARENESS
EMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING OF ADVERSE CHILHOOD EXPERIENCES AND TRAUMA-AWARENESS
EMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING OF ADVERSE CHILHOOD EXPERIENCES AND TRAUMA-AWARENESS
starlings
- Jun 10
- 2 min
The Shame and Guilt with Learning about Substances in School
I remember being in grades 7-8 about 13-14 years old and my teacher was starting our health curriculum that covered substance use. The...
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starlings
- Jun 9
- 1 min
Learning to Love Me More
"Have you ever felt like being somebody else? Feeling like the mirror isn't good for your health? Every day I'm tryin' not to hate...
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starlings
- Jan 10, 2019
- 6 min
Forging Resilience Through Connection
“Things that don’t bend, break”-Jewel, Never Broken We’ve heard about resilience time and time again, as though it is something we are...
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starlings
- Jan 3, 2019
- 4 min
Leading From Behind
"Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation."-Simon Sinek The other day while describing the book I was...
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starlings
- Nov 28, 2018
- 7 min
"Are you free to FaceTime?"
“I’m convinced of this: good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather then walking by them...
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starlings
- Nov 16, 2018
- 6 min
Baby steps to AWESOME.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk...
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starlings
- Nov 12, 2018
- 6 min
Through the eyes of a child.
"this is the recipe of life, said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year...
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starlings
- Nov 7, 2018
- 6 min
Tolerating... strawberries?
What connecting can mean and look like. "Connection: Energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they...
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starlings
- Nov 3, 2018
- 3 min
Little kids. Big difference.
"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give" Winston Churchill /share a meal. give a meal/ The Calgary Drop In...
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starlings
- Nov 1, 2018
- 2 min
Reading Rainbow
/THROW BACK/ "Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high Take a look, it's in a book, A Reading Rainbow! I can go anywhere Friends to...
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starlings
- Oct 30, 2018
- 4 min
"Every child Needs a Hero"
{Circle of Hope-Every Child Needs a Hero-Inn from the Cold} “Whatever the hopes, wishes or intentions of the parent, the child does not...
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starlings
- Oct 28, 2018
- 5 min
"A Star is Born"-Why everyone's story matters.
Who sees inside from outside? Who finds hundreds of mysteries ...
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starlings
- Oct 24, 2018
- 4 min
"I don't know anyone with a mental health disorder"
Studies directly link childhood anxiety to depression later in life. In any given year, 1 in 5 Canadians experience a mental illness or...
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starlings
- Oct 23, 2018
- 4 min
Connected. In close proximity. Community
I've had the question be asked, so, why Starlings? They are birds, right? Starlings are a type of bird that I fell in love with a few...
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