Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

What I Learned the Hard Way by Surviving Narcissistic Abuse and Focusing on HealingThe bitter pill about abuse is that it doesn't happen in a vacuum. Chances are, if you grew up normalizing abusive behaviour you will attract this behaviour in the relationships and friendships that you have, as well. Mostly because we normalize and are desensitized to the cues that signal abusive behaviour or b...

Breaking Free: My No Contact Journey After 5 Years of Cutting Toxic Family TiesExactly 5.5 years ago, I went no contact and cut all ties with my immediate and extended family. It was a hard choice but ultimately, the best choice I could have made to support not only my mental well-being but also mitigate and manage the increasing threat I felt to my physical safety. Rather than treat the subject a...

3 Ways to Feel More Creative and Think More Creatively to find Inner BalanceCreativity is something we all have in common. Maybe not to the same extent, as not everyone holds creativity to an equal standing. Finding a creative outlet, regardless of what you typically do professionally or even personally, can be a great way to find balance, grounding and maintain a sense of personal wellness. Exerc...

3 Red Flags You Should Never Ignore When Someone Reacts to Your Boundaries In Every Stage & PhaseHealing has no age limit. It's something we can start to do, regardless of the stage and phase we find ourselves in life. When we begin to heal, one of the natural effects of the process is becoming more in tune with our own sense of values, beliefs and convictions. As we discover our voice and...

Learning to Appreciate Those We Love by Matching their Energy and Showing UpAs we all are getting ready for the Christmas season, however that translates for each of us, it's an important opportunity to talk about reciprocity. When we think about the holidays, we think about taking the time to show gratitude and thankfulness. It's an opportunity to reconnect and spend time with the people...

Protect Your Mental Health During Holiday Stress with these 3 Tips! This the season to be... your choice! It's a toss up lately. This is a time of year people either love or hate, or have a love-hate relationship with. But the holidays isn't just for gingerbread house competitions and mistletoe, it's a great time to reflect on the that's past and think about how you've shown up...

The Cost of Authenticity Outweighs the Benefits of Hiding in Plain SightThe scariest thing that any of us may have ever done is owning our truth. Especially when there is no support and we find ourselves isolated as a byproduct of leveraging our voice. There's a lot of uncelebrated bravery that comes with just choosing to be yourself. So many people are hidden behind personas and masks, they h...

3 Ways to Enjoy a Merry Non-Toxic Christmas (Without the Guilt) and Try Something DifferentWhile a lot of us are approaching the holidays with excitement and anticipation, there are some of us that look to the holidays with justified gloom and doom. Why? Because often times the people we spend 364 days a year avoiding, we have to deal with during the holidays. Much of the hope and expectation that...

Acknowledging and Making Peace with Your Personal Politics By Knowing Where You StandEvery interaction is political to some extent. So long as intentions, desires, and motivations are at play, there is something that we're hoping to give, and hoping to gain, from every interaction that we're in. To be social beings is to be a politically-oriented being. While oftentimes, we assume politics...

3 Self-Soothing Techniques No Matter Your Age or Gender: Learn to take Care of YourselfSometimes it is the smallest actions that carry the largest impact. When it comes to self-care, there are a significant group of people who trivialize how effective it is to take a few moments each day just to align and re-energize. Those of us who practice self-care, know the difference. There is a lot of power...

3 Unconventional Truths that Develop Mental Strength that You Should Use Today and Throughout LifeHow do you define mental strength? We are all the strongest, when we feel like we're nearing our breaking point. If we choose to anchor on that moment, then we build from our current capacity. This is easily translatable in weight lifting. When you feel like your muscles are about to cancel out, a...

Don't You Worry: You're Exactly Where You Are Supposed to BeThere comes a time in each of our lives where we take stock of the imprint that we have left so far, and wonder if we've done enough. Some call it a mid-life crisis others might refer to it as a spiritual awakening, but in all cases in drills down to the impact we thought we would make, and how close we've come to making i...

Protecting Our Children: Beyond Milnerton HighHow we respond to bullying matters. There is this generalized complacency when it comes to responding to someone in crisis. Social psychology speaks a lot of the "Bystander Effect' but how much to you observe in silence, before your silence translates as violence in and of itself? The fact that consequences are only being handed out because th...

Engaging in Conflict while Protecting Your Peace | Choosing to Neutralize the Drama and Walk AwayWhen it comes to conflict, many people live at opposite ends of the spectrum. They love it and never say no to a fight, or they avoid it at all costs. All to say, regardless of what each of our preferences are, life requires that we engage in conflict from time to time. But. We can choose how we engage...

3 Ways to Push Through Challenging Times | You're Always Stronger Than You Think & More Resilient One thing that we all will eventually have in common are the people, places, and situations that we survive. We are all going to face hardships at some point in our life, varying degrees, throughout the stages and phases we go through. A lot of us have a hard time finding our way back to ourse...

You're More Influential than You Think | 3 Ways to Measure How Much Influence You Have Potential ForThe majority of us underestimate our influence. Very few recognize that any given point in time, they're a role model, a mentor, a support, and someone someone else is emulating and looking up to. That's influence in a nutshell. If we could focus the attention we spend playing small to u...

Finding Your Voice: When Silence Isn't an Option Learn to Speak UpThere are people who are banking on our silence. It's really important to recognize that while sometimes we feel like someone else will speak up, in cases where you choose not to, that's not always guaranteed. While it can be uncomfortable and unsettling, speaking up when we see, hear, or feel like something is off can h...

How to Stand Up to Bullies and Stop Letting Other People Intimidate YouWe've all experienced that moment when we set a boundary and our desires were dismissed. For some of us, this may have ended there but for others it could have gotten worse. It's a problem when someone thinks that your agency and your basic human rights is a barrier to whatever they're hoping to access. We see how t...

Progress Requires a Daily Sacrifice | Embracing that Loss Comes with Growth and Self DiscoveryMany of us only learn in hindsight that pursuing our goals and aspirations is going to change something about your life, as it is right now. Not just the things we're focusing on changing. You'll realize that growth introduces a lot of unexpected goodbyes as well. Every new beginning is the ending...

When Life Hits Hard: Building Mental Toughness and Growing Through the Challenges that Can ComeFew people are strong solely by choice. Most people develop strength from surviving circumstance. By choosing to align to the adage, "Grow through what you go through."It's a choice that we are each at liberty to make. Choosing to be strong won't take away the pain, heaviness, or the ch...

Tough Love: A Better Way to Hold People Accountable while Preserving their DignityThe way we communicate our point, establishing when emotions are high... matters. People are more prone to remember how you made them feel, over what specific things you said. When it comes to holding someone accountable, preserving their sense of dignity is important. Sometimes when our anger is justified, we feel j...

Your Path to Rising Above Toxic Situations and Staying GroundedWe can hold people accountable and get our point across, without ripping each other into shreds. Rather than lose our cool, backpedal, and apologize... focus solely on calling out the actions that hurt you. Keep the conversation centred on cause and effect, leaving the person's humanity in talk. Truth is, we are all healing from so...

How Love Conquers Hate in Our Daily Choices and Actions | Medicine for the SoulIt's hard to feel gracious towards people who grind our gears. While it would be easy to meet people where they are, if that means lowering yourself to that level, then the only person you're dishonouring is yourself. Why give anyone that power or satisfaction? While it's challenging to rise above and respon...

Why Love Wins Even When Hate Feels Right when Dealing with Difficult Situations and PeopleIt feels like the negativity taking place around the world is amplifying. We don't have to travel far, technology makes it all available at our fingerprints. What's worse, we don't really have a reason to believe it's going to get any better -- not by the looks of things. But it always can get...

Transform Self-Doubt Into Unshakeable Confidence by Honing in on Your IntuitionMany of us have a vague idea of our intuition if any at all. While a lot of people can devalue the power of developing our "gut" instinct, there are a few of us who can speak from personal experience: It works really well. But this isn't by chance or luck - developing attunement and awareness to your intui...