A few weeks ago, I travelled to Winnipeg with my partner to visit her family. This was the fourth journey home that I have made with her but the first where we’ve had enough time to explore and experience the city beyond her grandmother’s neighbourhood. Most people who I told about the trip before we…

I used to love social media. I spent hours every day scrolling, commenting, and posting. Facebook was a constant presence for years of my life. I mostly stopped using it and Instagram around 2019 as the number of ads and promoted content overwhelmed what I saw from the people I actually cared about. The FOMO…

I have lived much of my life in cycles of high achievement and burnout. It’s such a common theme that when I changed my name in 2018, I chose the moniker of a bird that literally bursts into flames and starts over. At times, this pattern has deeply worried me. I know it has negative…

A lot of people struggle to meditate because they find it agonizingly boring. It’s difficult to sit still and think about nothing. How can you clear your mind when there’s so much to think about? Recently, I was walking with a friend who explained that he finds it physically painful – even if he’s not…

I never make New Year’s Resolutions — though I do have another New Year activity that I’ll write about another time. I struggle to set goals in the cold darkness of winter and life is too busy with social commitments for me to put thought into what I want for myself. Instead, I set goals…