Story to tell....Veronique

As a year come to an end we all have a tendency to look back on what the past year has brought us and make an assessment of the quality of the year we’ve had. Some of us will judge the past year based on the personal accomplishments we’ve made, by the milestone that we’ve reached, the successes we’ve had at work or with our families. We often are looking for a measure. A measure that is based on what society has been dedicating us through social measurements and gauges. If we take that yard stick and we measure ourselves and the past year to what society has shown us to be great and successful, maybe we are missing out on something. We are missing out on what our true value is as an human being, missing out on what our accomplishments really mean to us. Aren’t we meant to always be disappointment if we only count on those social barometers to decide if it’s been a year worth living? Worth the question I think :) Here are some of my reflections of the past year; ------ ...

I was probably too young when they first started playing, not exposed and part of the phenomenon that were the Tragically Hips. I don't think that anybody really knew, how much they were going to mean to us. No one really saw coming, the impact that Gord Downie was going to have on our lives. I feel privileged, lucky and honoured today to have witness part of this journey. Gord Downie's late journey, was one that most of us will most likely experienced privately, with our close family and friends. It is pretty amazing, that through his illness, he decided to instead care only for himself and be afraid of what was to come, to offer it to the world, to Canada and to the community. He devoted himself to shine the light on the northern & aboriginal community of our great nation. A community that has been neglected by all of us. I'm not an expert and I certainly don't have all the facts to speak at length about this, but from my soul, I can see how our fellow Can...

In that exact moment you feel completely denuded. Your soul is totally exposed and you feel raw. You can fell the energy shift, you are feeling it, it's exhilarating. You have this connection to the Earth, you are totally grounded. Those moments are magic. Your heart and soul are opened, it's like you've developed an 8th sense. You notice things that before you would have stopped paying attention to or not realize it was happening. It takes a release of all expectations you have towards the world and people. You need to be able to let go of judgment and really open your mind and soul to all possibilities to be able to get into this spiritual state of mind. Your thoughts have to be put to the side, you have to quiet your mind. I am surely not a master of it yet, but I have those moments. Moments of pure connection with my surroundings. Looking into a strangers eyes, who you are just passing by and in that moment you are able to understand their exact state of m...

Do you believe in magic? I'm not talking about the kind of magic you've seen being done on a stage, by a talented magicien. I'm referring to the magic that comes for the soul. I've you ever met someone, that while you are watching them and listening to them, you just feel this energy. You are not quite sure what it is, what you are really witnessing or if you are even understanding what the person is all about, but you just feel good in that person's presence. I think most of us, as we grow into our adult life, are dismissing those moments. We are categorizing those moments and people, because we don't understand and they are very different from us. Perhaps we are the ones that are missing out on something. Instead of embracing the energy, we get scared of it and we close ourselves off because it's just not our "normal". I remember when I was younger, to have add amazing connections with people of all age. I didn't know it at the time b...

You watch the world. You listen to the news. You see it, but you can't really understand it. It is very frustrating. You get angry and you feel powerless. You see actions, taken by another human being. A human being that shares the same world as you, breathes the same air. Their actions are inexplicable and have horrendous consequences on many human beings, who were just taking part in this life, who didn't know when they woke up that day, how life was going to take this unexpected turn of event. Life is supposed to be so beautiful. Life is supposed to be us, in the happily ever after. We are all striving for this happiness. I don't think any body, who has ever been loved and shown that they belong in this world could take any of those actions. It's hard. To make sense of all of it. We are trying to understand but we are left with very little to do so. Things are happening far away, not to us really. However, it creates chaos in our mind. It creates chaos in our...

Trust your instincts, trust what your gut is telling you. Why are you holding back? Come on, you can do it! Take the leap and step into the arena. ---- Have you reached that point in your life, where you feel like you are stuck? Stuck in a ruth. You are longing for something. You are waiting for something to happen. You wait days, months and all of a sudden you realize that you've been waiting for way to long for that something to happen. Once in a while I reach that point and it gets me mad. Mad at myself because of all my procrastination. Mad at myself for not acknowledging that life is passing by, and I am missing those opportunities. I am a passionate individual. For those who know me, I never do things half way. I commit, I grind it out, it's the pedal to the metal. If I want something, I go for it. I don't wait for it. ---- I've been thinking for a while, of taking on a new project, in order to pursue my true calling and passion. I had started to look i...

I started writing this post a few weeks ago, but today as I was 'battling' with this ball in my stomach caused by anxiety, I found the inspiration that I was looking for to complete writing it. - I was reading this blog post by Clara Hughes a few weeks ago. Clara Hugues who is the face of the Bell Let's Talk campaign on Mental Health and Illness, was telling us that she needed to take a break. After some physical health problems and the Bell Let's talk campaign, she was taking a step back from all of it, to deal with a relapse into depression. We all know Clara for her big smile, upbeat personally, ambassador for Mental Health and other amazing organization, Olympic Medalist on multiple occasions and just tremandous athlete. She has had struggles with mental illness since her young age. It's hard to believe coming from at person who we would have all thought was a rock and really un-breakable, before reading about it and hearing her talk about it. It goes to ...

I got caught today, in the drama wheel. I was faced with a situation that I had seen before, with an individual that I knew what prompt for creating drama but I still walked into the trapped. I activated myself and started working towards resolving the situation, with a lot of stress and anxiety. It took almost 4 hours of my day, and I ended up spending a lot of time spinning my wheels, trying to come out with a solution. In the end, it probably wasn't necessary and would have probably ended with the same result if I didn't get involved and didn't stress out about it. After everything was done, the stress started to evaporate, leaving behind a mix of emotions and leaving me in tears. I had feelings of frustration because the person who started the "crisis" didn't need to do so. Frustration because all the people involved were trying to do the right thing and in the end, there wasn't much more that could be done. Frustration because I took everyth...

A few days ago, I started writing about drama and ego, and their places in our day to day life. I really wanted to write about it but I was finding it hard to find the right words or the right view to approach it. All of a sudden, life happened, a few days ago. Ego and drama used to take a lot of place into my life in it's earlier stage. There was a good part of my life when I let my ego drive me, and created a whole lot of drama in my life and thoughts. It affected the way I approach life, relationships, work and more. One day, my soul and body decided that it was time to let go of it. The only way this was going to ever happen, because trust me I was doing everything to ignore the signs, was for me to hit a wall. That wall was a hard and brutal one. Throwing me on my back and really not allowing me to get up and keep going like I had been doing for the greatest part of my life. It was time to figure myself out and time to get better understanding of life and my purpose in...