by Karen Lapierre Pitts | Feb 25, 2021 | How We Help
Honestly, one of the hardest things to do when your world has been forever changed is finding ways to cope and make sense of it all – often a journey that families face on their own. It takes time. It takes emotional and physical energy. You may be feeling alone or...
by Susan Haldane | Jan 28, 2021 | Health and Safety, How We Help
It’s a good feeling, inspiration. We all like to feel inspired. Otherwise, why would there be so many lists of inspirational sayings, or motivational memes floating around out there? I had anthropologist Margaret Mead’s famous line posted above my desk for...
by Karen Lapierre Pitts | Jan 14, 2021 | How We Help
As we move into a new year, it’s important to make time to reflect, to breathe, and to focus on what is most important to you. The thing about a “beginning” of any type is that it usually also signifies the “ending” of something else. While I’m not especially sad to...
by Wynny Sillito | Jan 7, 2021 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
Jan 7 2011: I woke up early, bundled up in my warm layers and headed off to work as an emergency responder, not knowing that it was the last day I would be the “old me”. I had worked all day in an Alberta winter, feeling the cold wind on my face and cursing...
by Cheryl Shock | Dec 17, 2020 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
Sean was a truck driver: it was his passion. If there was a vehicle with a motor, he would want to drive it. As soon as Sean was finished school, he got his class 1 licence and never looked back. He hauled gravel, rock, asphalt, water, and liquid sulphur just to name...
by Shirley Hickman | Dec 10, 2020 | covid-19, Health and Safety, How We Help
Vision 2020: a term to express visual acuity (the clarity or sharpness of vision). In 2019 our staff team thought the theme of ‘2020’ would be a fun one for the coming year. Our staff meeting in January 2020 held out all kinds of possibilities, including fun...
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