Walking Alongside: Perspectives

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! We've all heard that word. Been called it. Maybe used it - to describe someone or possibly ourselves. Why do we so often find ourselves in situations where maybe we feel like we've had one pulled over on us? Maybe it's just me. There are definitely charlatans, hucksters and snake oil salespeople out there but not everyone is as susceptible,...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! The last little while there seem to have been all these little hints or clues that I needed to be a little more connected - in my mind and body, more mindful, more present, more able to respond rather than react. And let's be clear, it's still a work in progress, but this most recent experience really cemented for me that there is great benefit...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! I was thinking about this for a long time, when I realized that maybe it's not so much an either/or as a both/and, which was confirmed for me in this conversation with my good friend Trina Mansour. We talk about how life changes, or how perhaps, we need to change, to keep up with or fully embrace life. It's a great reminder that we can be whoeve...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! It's amazing how doing something everyday, multiple times a day can give you moments of clarity or inspiration. Luna and I spend a lot of time walking. In the neighbourhood, in the ravine, and I'm always amazed at her zeal at sniffing the same fence, patch of grass or bush. Every. Single. Time. So it dawned on me that there might be some lessons...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! So I clearly don't know what season I am working on - but it doesn't matter, new year, new season and I'm calling it 5 and I'm excited to kick it off with a conversation that ties in mental health, because that's always important to talk about, with things that we do that help us to feel better, unwind, relax or in some way stay s...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Well - here we are. Another Holiday Season upon us, another year almost ready for the archives, and what have we learned? Hope that you all have an amazingly restful break (if that's in the cards for you) and that you all find what you need to fill your cup and to fortify you so that you can fill the cups of others. Thanks for listening, and as alway...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! At first blush, it might sound like this is going to be just a negative bashing of, well, pretty much anything you can think of - but it's not. Yes it's about stupid people, or perhaps more precisely the stupid things they do, but it's not an exhaustive listing of the stupid things that people do, because a) that would be fodder for a whole...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Who among us hasn't caved and bought that cute T-shirt while on vacation, or dashed into the store because something caught our eye in the window display? We can probably all remember the "back to school shopping" trip that we did as kids, and may do now with our own kids, but have you ever thought about what happens to those clothes after...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! So before you think I did Iron Man, I need to stop you there. This story started with a conversation I had with a fellow Aryllian who was training for another endurance race and it lead me to have a chat with a friend of mine who did Iron Man - professionally - I didn't even know that was a thing til I met him. So this episode takes an up close and p...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Finally a guest! I'm so excited to share this conversation that I had with my friend and former colleague Trina Mansour!!! We talked about beginnings, starting over, parents, the challenges that kids are having and how we can "help" them navigate them and had a blast just chatting about stuff like only 2 kids from the '80's can. T...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! All over the map - that's where I feel I am at the moment. Podcast schedule all over the map, focus all over the map, and no real sense of direction. So when we were recently in Jasper looking at all the map markers and contemplating the size of our country and the challenges of getting from point A to point B - well, the episode was born. Reflection...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Have you ever thought about the things that you don't understand. I find myself saying that a LOT. I'm not sure why...maybe because I'm always thinking about something, usually a problem or a challenge that I'm hopeful there is a solution to, especially as it pertains to work, but invariably, part of the problem ends up being something...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! It's funny what can trigger a bout of nostalgia...smells, sounds, songs, conversations. It doesn't matter how you end up there, but sometimes it seems like there is a whole lot of stuff that seemed easier, better, more fun, less stressful, less...now. A couple of things recently sparked a whole slough of nostalgic thoughts and so here is how tha...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Despite having just been party to dismantling a magpie nest for the third time, I still feel like an animal lover. There are just some birds that don't make good neighbours. If you've ever been in the presence of a family of magpies, you'll know they don't fit that bill! But as an animal lover, there are some basic practices that need...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! We have heard the term. Maybe we've secretly thought about doing it. I'm excited to share my kiddo's perspective on what they view Quiet Quitting to be, and I have to say (with all the objectivity a proud Mama can muster) that they pretty much nailed it. Wherever you stand on the subject, it also speaks to so many other issues that we are c...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Daylight Savings Time - when MST becomes MDT. It's the weekend of the year that I detest the most. Partly because of the hour of sleep lost, partly because of the outdated, misunderstood, and utterly useless reason that we continue to do it.  It's 2023. We have opened our eyes up to so many things that need to evolve, to change, to be fixed, to...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Have you ever really wanted to do something, known that it would be sooo good if you did it, but somehow, you just couldn't make it happen? There were likely lots of reasons that went into that, and in this episode I'm talking about one possibility. Capacity. What is it? How much of it do we have? What affects it? And most importantly, how can w...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Hope - a popular name at one time, a place in British Columbia and also a way of being? thinking? doing? What exactly is hope? This is what I try to figure out as we head into another year, which, "hopefully" will be better than the last couple:) If you've ever hoped for something, where did that come from, what was it about and how did it...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Here we are at the end of another year - not sure how time manages to go so fast and seemingly faster as the years go by. But with 2023 looming, I thought it was fitting to have a quick look back, and more specifically at the adventures in sledding that marked some fun milestones in our family. But what we know about looking back is that it can skew our p...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! I didn't really think about it until I started to really pay attention as I was out walking Luna the ways people shovel their walks - the style, the timing, or perhaps the lack thereof. If you thought that there wasn't an art to shoveling snow, you would be wrong. Enjoy this episode as I explore the wonderful winterland ways we clear our sidewal...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! We don't always share with others the things that would help them be their best selves. Maybe they don't always want to listen, or to hear. But we would be well served, looking for the good in those we care about, and conversely, be open to hearing what others tell us. Of course it's all in the delivery, but if we say it in a way that we wo...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! In like a lion they say - well, that was certainly true. One minute, trick or treating without a snowsuit, the next minute - you need a snowsuit. Winter is here, but even though the forecast is for a colder, snowier November than we may be used to in recent years, we already have a reprieve. A great time to do the things that you might have put off thinki...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! It's that time again...no...not Daylight Savings Time -that's next weekend:(Time to decorate! Halloween and then Christmas - one or the other or both? Which one are you? The get into the spirit person or the bah humbug grinch? It's always fun to see the houses and yards get festive and it makes you wonder what the motivation is? The people...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! What is happening in nature around the neighbourhood? Where are the robins and the worms? What's with the magpies and the crows? And what is going on with the coyotes? The weather is bananas, seasons are a blur and we are in a hot mess! What is going on and what can we do?  Listen wherever you get your podcasts - you can find Walking Alongside on Pod...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Food.  We can't live without it. It is essential, we may not all have good relationships with it, for a variety of reasons, but it is an inextricable part of our lives. I love food. It factored largely into what I ended up doing in the early part of my career. It still factors largely into my everyday - whether eating it, cooking it or as I talk abou...