Ah… fear. So sneaky. So pervasive. And yet, so useful and informative. 

When it boils down to it, there are two main experiences we humans can have - love or fear. 

Every emotional/vibrational experience that doesn’t feel so great has its roots in fear. And every emotional experience that feels great is a form of love. 

Actually, it’s all love because ultimately, that’s all there is, but fear is a great clarifier. It shows us where we have an opportunity to grow and integrate. 

Love tends to propel us forward into expansion. Fear tends to contract us and hold us back where things are familiar. 

If you feel stuck, stagnant, overwhelmed or even on the brink of a breakthrough, it’s worth taking a good look at fear to see how it’s showing up. 

Here are some sneaky ways that fear might be lurking in your life:

Fear of what others will think of you

This version of fear is quite hilarious. For example, I’ve been...

Not too long ago, I had the realization that if something exciting or good was about to happen or was on the horizon, I would tone down the associated good feelings just in case it didn’t work out.

Why would we postpone feeling good?

I discovered that I had been protecting myself from disappointment. Like pretty much any human being, I’ve felt disappointed countless times and at a certain point, I guess part of me just decided it hurt too much. A protective mechanism inadvertently got installed that suppressed my initial good feelings so that I wouldn’t feel too disappointed if things didn’t pan out. 

Can you see the flaws in this approach? They became glaringly obvious to me.  

Flaw #1

We can get into the habit of suppressing feeling joy, anticipation, excitement, hope, delight and all the other great vibrations we want to experience more often. It doesn’t make much sense to tamp down feeling awesome for fear of not feeling awesome...

And here we are at the end of August. Does that make you shake your head in amazement/bewilderment too?

Since we’re approaching a transition (summer to fall and all that goes with that), I thought I would share with you a review that I did with Paul and the kids when we finished up the West Coast Trail. 

I was curious about what they’d discovered about themselves along the way so I devised a brief q&a that we did while we waited for a sushi dinner once we were back in civilization.

A good review is always valuable to gather information about how you’re showing up in life, reflect on it and then move forward in an informed way. It’s powerful to pause before venturing forth into the next day/week/adventure. 

Here are the questions we journaled about. Maybe you’d like to use them for yourself and/or your family as you move into the new season.

Question 1: What did you notice about yourself?

The reflection here is to get curious about how you...

A quick little reminder and invitation for this month's 9D Breathwork session coming up soon. It’s called the Origin and it’s one powerful journey. You’ll get your energy moving which means awakening your inner healer, accessing your creative flow, letting go of what no longer serves and unifying with the real you (the really powerful, loving and courageous one). Click here for details.

If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that the last few posts have been about backpacking on the West Coast Trail. In keeping with the backpacking theme but departing from the WCT, I have some great ideas to share with you about clearing stuff out. 

Which doesn’t seem to be related. 

But it is in a roundabout way because we were supposed to go on another backpacking trek last week, this time in Jasper. 

Sadly, our trip got cancelled due to wildfires - sending some love out to all the people of Jasper. It’s such a gorgeous place and I...

Do you have an injury or some sort of chronic issue in your body?

If yes, do you see it as a problem to be fixed or something that’s wrong that needs to be solved?

If yes, that’s a pretty common worldview so not to worry.

What if injuries were something different? What if they were a prelude to a whole system upgrade where your vibration increases as long as you know the right steps to take?

While hiking the West Coast Trail this summer, I had a moment where I wasn’t fully present and so I slipped and fell with my big backpack on. An older version of me would have seen this as a disaster and a reason to be really hard on myself. 

The newer version of me knew something different was on the horizon. 

I made a short video to explain the rest because, otherwise, you would have had to read a novel-length passage (plus I was wearing pigtails the day I made the video which I thought were super cute and deserved to be shared). 

Click here to find out more...

First up, it’s time for another remote healing Open House and you’re invited. I’ll be guiding the group through a BEST/Spiritual BEST session (Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique) session.

Because BEST works on an energetic level, it can be done in person or remotely and 1:1 or in groups. All of it is effective and wonderful. The Open House will be online - super easy to attend from the comfort of your own space. 

As the receiver, it’s a gentle experience where you focus on a specific breath pattern, an eye position, a number, some words and an emotion. It takes a little coordination and you just do your best (pun on purpose). People get the hang of it and the great thing is that it can only make things better. 

There’s no rehashing the past or reliving painful memories because we work with the energy that’s underneath the story rather than anything the mind has made up. 

The benefit of working with energy is that things can...

We’re going to start today with a PS. Unusual? Yes, but it works because it’s just a pre-script instead of a post-script. I say we can do things like that so here is the PS right off the top. 

On August 3rd (which is coming right up!), some colleagues and I are hosting an event that includes some light yoga to open the body, a transformational breathwork journey and then a crystal sound bowl healing to integrate. It’s going to be absolutely delicious and perhaps you’d like to attend. 

If you’ve ever experienced breathwork, you’ll know how powerful it is. 

9D Breathwork journeys are next level. They use all sorts of technology like binaural beats, isochronic tones, solfeggio frequencies and more to ensure participants experience permanent transformation. 

If you have yet to do breathwork, it’s the absolute best use of your time in terms of resolving issues, changing limiting beliefs and setting the stage for receiving more...

Ever since I read the book Hiring the Heavens by Jean Slatter, I’ve made hiring heavenly helpers part of my daily life. Whenever there is something that’s out of my control, I appoint the appropriate energetic beings and hire them to help out. This practice has been nothing short of miraculous.

While preparing for hiking the West Coast Trail, there were a myriad of unknowns that I found unsettling and so I employed all sorts of helpers. The results were beyond my wildest expectations. 

I’d love to share my experience to give you ideas on how you can also make a practice of receiving help from the unseen. 

Heavenly Helpers for Weather

Several months prior to the trip, I started off with some weather helpers. The WCT is known to be rainy and muddy (since it’s in a rainforest). Although I was up for a certain level of adventure, I decided to request gorgeous weather - because why not?

I said, “Heavenly helpers who are masterful at beautiful...

Well, we did it; our family hiked the West Coast Trail which is said to be the most challenging backpacking trip in North America. Yay us! (It's amazing how a week of experiences, adventures, emotional ups and downs and such growth can be summarized into one little sentence - we did it.)

I must say that while we were getting ready, I had quite a few moments of fear and even some of abject terror. That’s because I made a significant mistake while planning (a few, actually).

You may have heard that what you focus on expands. Unfortunately, I fell into an old pattern of focusing on worst case scenarios.

Whenever I would mention to someone that we were going to do the West Coast Trail, inevitably, they would say something like, “Oh! When my cousin did that, he had to be evacuated when he broke his leg,” or “I had to walk out on a 3rd degree ankle sprain when I did that trip.”

My mind grabbed onto those stories, amplified them, and then substituted my kids...

We’re enroute to our West Coast Trail adventure (on the trail on Friday) and so we spent Canada Day in the car making our way to the coast. (Not quite there yet, but close.)

Along the way, we played some games, laughed a lot, sang a huge variety of songs, and oohed and aahed at the mountains playing hide and seek through the clouds.

Here are three quick nuggets from day 1 of our adventure. 

Nugget 1

We got up at 5:30am so that we could avoid the Canada Day traffic heading out to the mountains. By 7:00am we made it out of the house and zoomed out into the rain. 

Here’s what we discovered. Travelling on a statutory holiday is amazing because… no construction! Although there were many construction spots, there was no action. Plus, it was a rainy kind of day so there was less traffic than we anticipated. 

Who knew that highway travel would be so great? Now we know. 

Nugget 2

We played a couple of games that you might enjoy should you have any...