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April 2, 2018April 2, 2018

Self Care for Caregivers

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Friends🌻 So excited for this cooking class — Let’s redefine holiday meals ~ My goal is to spread the good word of delicious, flavourful plant-based dishes and redefine tradition! I’ve created a great menu of wholesome, hearty + nutrient dense recipes that will leave you feeling energized and not lethargic! 🌻🥕🥦🍠🌻 Message me for more details / questions + sign up today! Let’s cook together! . . . . . . . . #culinarynutritionexpert #cookingclass #plantbasedcookingclass #huntsvilleontario #muskoka #cottagecountry

what better way to start October? @livingwooddesign @cabinorganiccafe 🍁🌻 delicious pumpkin spice latte from this lovely cafe! 🌞🎃 if you haven’t checked out this gem in downtown Huntsville, you must! . . . . . #huntsvilleontario #livingwood #organiccafe #shoplocal #eatlocal #supportsmallbusiness #pumpkinspicelatte

🌿🍁🛶 a moment from the weekend ~ so grateful to live next to this beautiful place!

My dad would have been 65 today — seems completely wild to me. He passed away 6 years ago this coming New Year’s Eve, and it feels far away but really, 6 years is nothing! I find his birthday much harder than his death day. - I’ve been feeling SO nostalgic + reflective the past few months, with turning 30 in exactly a month (turning 30 is weird! 😬🤪😆) and feeling like I have no idea where time has gone. My fathers death was completely awful and peaceful at the same time. It came too early and unfairly. He passed away from HEP C, which he got from a blood transfusion in the 80’s. He was part of the tainted blood scandal. He unknowingly carried hep c for 20 something years, and also infected my mom somewhere in those years. - I talk about him a lot. Watching him die, my grief, guilt and the little things he did to show me his love. He was a man of few words but his illness bonded us together and I’m grateful for having some time getting to know him when I was an adult. I think it’s so important to talk about grief — and the “dead parent club”. ~ anyways, no point to this post other than saying that grief sucks and it’s with you forever, sometimes dressed in different costumes but it’s there. - - - - - - - - my grief looks like: ✨crying during peach season because they were his favourite fruit and I have lots of memories of peaches on the window + going to fruit farms in NOTL with him. I’m sad he will never be able to eat a peach again. ✨Feeling heartbroken that I took breaks when he was in the hospital to go home when I should have been there 24/7 ✨Wishing I spent more time with him in high school. I remember him commenting on how “I’m never home” and I wish I could go back and spend more time with him! ~ but we have to trust our younger selves and guilt is such a trap (because we can’t change our past actions!) 🌱 anyways, feel free to share what your grief looks like (if you feel compelled to!) I love hearing about how people experience grief ~ 💖✨ . . . #grief #loss #gratitude #taintedbloodscandal #hepc (And if you are really interested in grief / loss you gotta follow Yvonne Heath from @loveyourlifetodeath — watch her ted talk. She’s honestly the greatest!

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