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Let’s face it. We all have things that we’re so incredibly good at and other things that we’re absolute crap at. When we’re working on improving something we’re not good at, I like to refer to it as our “growth edge.” I always have a growth edge or two that I’m working on and in the past year, it’s been about having difficult conversations with people when something comes up that bothers me. Whew…this one has been hard for me. I’m a tried and true avoider of difficult convers

Recently, someone told me that they’re a little bit afraid of me. I found that surprising and a bit funny because I don’t consider myself at all scary to others. I try to do my best to consistently treat others with kindness and respect. What the person was picking up on, I think, was that I have pretty firm boundaries and I’m not afraid to stand up for what I believe in and give some compassionate tough love. My boundaries are something that I’ve worked on for years and they

In honour of Valentine’s Day, this weeks’ blog is dedicated to understanding “love languages,” which have the power to improve the quality of your relationship. These concepts are based on the book “The 5 Love Languages” by Dr. Gary Chapman, where he describes the 5 main ways that we all give and receive love. The book has continued to be wildly popular for decades because the messages within it are so valuable. Dr. Chapman describes how the strongest relationships have what