Picture: All that is left of the things we released on 4 December 2019. Nothing will hold us back in 2020! Every month our Empowered Women’s Circle gathers to learn new ways of being a powerful woman in our modern world. While we often focus on physical health, digging into the best ways to nourish our bodies, lose weight, prevent cancer, manage chronic disease, establish sleep routines and mitigate the effects of stress, our most recent event was very different. Modeled af

I had a beautiful weekend with my son and the interviews with his teachers revealed, for me, the possibilities that lay ahead when we set an intentional course to educate and lovingly guide the next generation. The school that he is blessed to attend in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada is guided by Positive Psychology principles and a "Strengths-based" approach to teaching and life on campus. For those who have not been impacted by this game-changing movement, Positive Psychology w

Food waste - A third of all edible food continues to go uneaten, even though more than 10% of the global population goes hungry. To express this in more personal terms, every day in the U.S., consumers throw out nearly a pound of food per person1. Multiply that by 365 days a year, round down to 350-360 lbs. (because it’s not quite a pound), and …. we are throwing out up to 1.5 to three times our individual weight in food! When I reflect on that statistic in the context of my

I recently had the pleasure of attending an airshow, as a guest of my husband, a military pilot and astronaut. As an obstetrician and gynecologist and a MOREob trainer, it was with great curiosity and intrigue that I was able to observe a debriefing for our Air Demonstration Team, the Canadian Forces Snowbirds. As a MOREob trainer since 2004, I have been presenting slides and videos that hi-light how medical errors are preventable using principles from High Reliability Organi

When I got a call in the middle of the night I knew it wasn’t good. Nana had fallen and fractured her hip. With time, I will become my grandmother, we are similar in so many ways. As I took that call and started to consider what I could do to help her and her caregivers, my thoughts also turned to my own future. My heart sank at the notion that only half of women over 80 years who fracture a hip will walk independently after 1 year and up to 6% will die of complications. My N