I'm in Ontario right now visiting my mom for the first time in two years. Since moving to Vancouver 21 years ago, I have made dozens of trips back and a lot of them on my own with my kids. Right from when they were babies, I have never hesitated to pack them up and jump on a plane. Years of experience have taught me allllll the tips for air travel with kids, even as a single parent. Here are my very best tips to help make your airplane trips as painless as possible (and dare

This weekend we are supposed to be setting records for the hottest temperatures ever in certain parts of North America. It probably means that many people (including myself!) will be breaking out bathing suits for the first time this year. Does the very mention of 'bathing suits' strike fear and cause you to suck in your stomach? Me, too. If you've read my previous blog on my personal body image journey you know that part of it for me is mental. I am aware that I have a lot o

**Warning: This blog post contains content that may be triggering to people with a history of or are currently struggling with an eating disorder. I know it’s not politically correct to use the word ‘fat’ to describe someone but this post is about my truth, and I have thought of myself as fat for most of my life. I remember it starting early in high school, as it does for many, particularly girls. I remember with clarity a conversation with one of my very best friends at the

A few weeks ago I posted an Instagram story about the guilt I feel doing ‘nothing’ and I had a huge realization. When you say out loud or even in your head that you’re ‘doing nothing’ it sounds unproductive and unimportant. It means that you’ve thrown everything that you ‘should’ be doing aside in favour of being lazy. Because really, who has time to do nothing, especially now that so many are working from home and there is no shortage of stuff that can be done. I would like

A couple of days ago I was wearing a new, leopard-print jumpsuit and someone commented to me that I wore leopard-print really well. They also commented that they didn’t think they could pull it off. I laughed and told them that confidence comes with age, and when I was in my 30’s I wouldn’t have thought I could wear it either, but now that I’m about to turn 45, I feel like I could pull off (almost) anything. It really got me thinking about how we change as we grow up and how

I venture to say that if most of you knew what my life looked like day to day you would never describe it as balanced. It’s possible that some people may even judge me (negatively) for it. Sometimes I even judge myself. But then I remind myself why I do what I do and everything is right in the world again. For me, life isn’t about balance, it’s about fulfillment. I feel like there are so many pressures on us as women that the goal of balance is pretty much unattainable. If yo