Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

What to do When There's No Way to Be Certain - Choosing the Best with What You Know and AdaptingUncertainty is no one's friend. I have never met anyone who considers uncertainty with excitement and anticipation. At best, you learn to embrace it and roll with the punches. Developing the skills required to be responsive, adaptive, and to rise above, regardless. At worst, it completely beats...

Embracing Uncertainty as a Constant and Resisting the Urge to Self-Sabotage in the ProcessMany of us can be open and honest about how much we dislike uncertainty. Knowing often feels better than not knowing. Waiting for an answer to arrive, without knowing when, where, why, how, or what can be an agonizing experience. Despite the emotional disruption that we can feel at times, uncertainty is a nec...

How the People You Know Inform Your Sense of Becoming But You Choose if it's for Better or WorseEverything and everyone that you meet during the course of your life informs your sense of becoming. While you get to decide if whether their influence is a positive or a negative one, I don't believe any encounter is accidental. More specifically, I think there are four profiles of individuals...

How Visualization can Enhance Your Life and Enable You to Make Your Dreams a RealityMuch of the experiences we indulge in and the routines that we have normalized didn't exist if we think two or three decades ago. Many people discount the power of following your dreams, and bringing your imagination to life... Yet much of life is a byproduct of other people doing exactly that. Whether it's...

A Plan is Not a Strategy - Still, a Good Place to Get Started on Building Your DreamsHaving a plan can be the simplest way to create clarity, find alignment, and execute with precision on the goals that mean the most to you. Plans are not static. They interact with the shifts and changes in our personal lives and in the larger socio-political dynamics that we find ourselves in. This means that pla...

Dealing with Disappointment While Continuously Pursuing Your Dreams & GoalsIf you have ever pursued a big dream, the kind that requires planning, training, sacrifice, and shifts... then you've already become well acquainted with disappointment. When we focus on the challenges that stretch us beyond our current capacity, we give ourselves the opportunity to awaken dormant talents, skills, a...

How to Deal with Intense Emotions - What Everyone Should Know About Dealing with LossLoss happens to all of us. While it can be true that your experience with loss might be unique to you, know that grief in all its stages is something that we are all figuring out. How we cope with loss is a huge indicator in whether we enable ourselves to address and accept those loses for what they are, while sti...

Learning to Value the Feedback in Failure and Taking the Insights to GrowMany of us were raised with a fear of failing, myself included. But when you dare to try you have to be prepared to fail sometimes. What's equally important is that while we may fail at the things we were hoping to achieve, there is a gain in every life experience. I firmly believe that failure is feedback. Not the feedba...

Disliking Someone Does Not Give You the Right to Disrespect Them No Matter the SituationThere is nothing wrong with recognizing that you don't like someone. Maybe your justification could use some work, but let's be real, we don't always need to justify how we feel. That said, no matter how much someone grinds your gears or disdain they generate within you, that does not give you the r...

The Truth About Personal Agency and How Your Choices Shape Everything Around YouDeveloping the critical thinking that fosters sounds decision-making is too fundamental a building block to hope that the school curriculum covers it. Much of the free programs made available in our communities focalize on skills that increase cooperation without highlighting what key factors creates high-impact and hi...

Evaluating Your Relationships and Cutting Out the Frenemies in Your Life for GoodWhat's the quality of your closest friendships? It's a question we forget to ask ourselves, which leads to normalizing behaviours that would be otherwise deemed harmful, toxic, or completely out of bounds. As everything in life, there are stages and phases that impact the relationships around us. Sometimes the...

How to Change Our Relationship with Fear and Step outside of Our Comfort ZoneContrary to what some people believe, fear has great utility in life. Much of the decisions we make have an element of fear that fuelled the course of action we have chosen. Whether it's fear of the unknown, or fear of something tangible in your space, it's the kind of motivator that keeps you moving, pushing, and...

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...