Your Healing Journey – A Journey of Hope

Hello, and welcome to another episode of your healing journey, a journey of hope. Today I wanted to spend just a few moments talking about Valentine's Day, which is only a couple days away, and the memories that it left with, certainly with me, and with the time I spent together with Deborah. So Valentine's Day typically is, the relationship there is more so for the purchase of flowers to give to your significant other, your loved one, perhaps a dinner out are some of the things I know

Well, good morning. I thought I'd post this early this morning before I take off and head off to Sask Polytech to speak to the HR class on mental health. And it kind of triggered something that I felt I needed to do, which was to talk a little bit about the dreaded weekend. And what I mean by that is we're coming up to three years since Debra passed and out of, aside from her not being here, the other part is the aspect of the weekends was when we used to do so much together. That was our

Hello, and I'm back again just to have another chat with you to share some insight into some things we need to be aware of when it comes to the implementation of a mentoring program. One of the things that I have started to recommend to individuals, organizations, when they go to implement a mentoring program is that they take a look at the aspect of mental health being part of that. Let me give you an example is that when it comes to young entrepreneurs who are striving forth to take a

So, I grew up on a farm. I spent the first 18 or 19 years of my life on the farm doing, you know, the usual stuff. And what I didn't realize was the impact that farming in general had on my mental health, and most definitely the mental health of family members. And just to qualify that a little bit more, one of our family members had a firsthand experience with mental health challenges in that they, because of all the pressures and everything else that was going on, they ended up taking their

How Important is My Mental Health?When it comes to our mental health, we need to be looking at it from a fact or fiction perspective. January’s third Monday, “Blue Monday”, is thought to be the most depressing day of the year. Spoiler: it isn’t. Our mental health should be something that we take care of on an ongoing basis and not because a day is proclaimed as the most depressing day of the year. Blue Monday is a myth Blue Monday is a PR stunt that was originally dreamed up to sell

As most of you will recall in my last post I talked about Christmas and it being a tough time without my wife Debra being here with us and maybe just to sort of refresh everybody's memory.Debra lost a courageous battle with cancer in 2021. Actually it's coming up in February, the anniversary of her passing, so that by itself will be a tough time and actually that fits quite nicely into what I'm talking to you today about is from a grief perspective we talk about being lonely and being

Christmas is supposed to be a time of happiness when we come together and spend time with family and friends to celebrate the holiday season. And yet for some of us, it's not as cheerful of a holiday season as what it could be for you. In my particular case, I lost my wife Debra to cancer in 2021 and she was the Christmas person. She brought cheer and joy and she took Christmas to another level that I don't seem to be able to do. And as a result of that, there's still an emptiness