Your smile. It can be something that you share often and use freely or something that you hide and might not bring out very often. Let's admit it, if you are being really honest, you are similar to most of us and when you see yourself in a picture, you quickly make a judgment on …
Perspective-What Would You Say?
For anyone who has been around me long enough, and heard me talk about my health journey in any way, you have probably heard me say this, "I wouldn’t have chosen it, but I wouldn’t change it?" What does that mean? You might be able to guess but I am going to tell you anyway. …
Regret – What I Wish I Learned The First Time
Regret. It's something that we are all likely going to face at some point in our lives, if not many times. Hard to avoid really. But I guess it depends on what you are regretting, why you are regretting it and how you plan to move forward past the regret. Easier to talk about than …
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Choice – Are You Empowered or Depowered?
Hhmm is depowered a word? I'm not too sure, but let's go with it just for me. Like so many things in life, it comes down to choice or choices. Are your choices going to empower you or remove your power? Are you going to take back power and control or give it away? Every …
Comparison-An Easy Pitfall
You might find yourself sitting there in a situation and your biggest decision factors are what others will think of what you have done or will do. Wow! That’s overwhelming and a lot to carry. And it really seems like a no win scenario.
Hope – When It’s Time to Vote
If your hope lies in all negative, bad or destructive things being blown away in one fall swoop, you will likely always be disappointed. If you can find hope in the small, incremental progress that happens towards resetting bad systems or holding systems to account, that is success. I know, I know, we want things to happen in big ways and all at once.
Hope – In the Midst of Darkness
Do you look around and just see darkness? Difficulty? Struggles? Hopelessness? Quite honestly it's hard not to, especially in the darkness of the winter season. And so many people out there only see that. You might even ask how can anyone have hope in the middle of all of these bad things going on in …
Testing – Did I Pass?
It really feels like I have spent much of my life sitting in hospital waiting rooms and in clinics waiting for medical tests. It really started when I was 16, with cancer diagnosis #1. While I haven't done every medical test possible (thank goodness) I have definitely completed a whole lot of them. Some of …
Savour It – It’s Worth It
Well it should surprise no one when I mention that Christmas time is right around the corner. Yes friend, it is already December! If you didn't know that, now you are up to speed. Christmas is coming quite quickly as is the usual. At least that is my experience. In one moment it seems so …
Winter’s Coming – Do We Need to Act Like Bears?
Wondering if you need to act like a bear probably isn't your usual thought process but stick with me here. Winter has finally arrived in full force recently, at least here on the prairies. It arrived with the usual unexpectedness to many people who live where I live. It's the end of October and having …
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Melodee Glassford 