This past weekend, I had the honour of hosting Nike Toronto’s giveback moment before the big send-off game for the Canada Soccer Women’s National Team. To address the alarming drop out rate of young girls in sport, Nike Toronto has embarked on a mission to reverse the statistics, enlisting the help of local female role …
Counting Puts Out Fires
I have a genuine fear that my world is going to go up in flames. I mean this both metaphorically and literally. I have several thoughts a day about the ways in which my life might implode. I have a fear that one day I’ll come home from work to see fire trucks lining the …
Overthinking
Silence is beautiful until it starts screaming I’d rather dissociate and go back to daydreaming I’m only alive when I am dreaming Sometimes on the inside I feel like I’m screaming I want to open up and be able to explain I can’t understand what goes on in my brain I can’t relate to you …
Dear Agony Aunt: I’m Still in Love with My Ex
Dear Agony Aunt, I’m in love with my ex…we’ve stayed friends. Should I tell them how I feel? Heartbroken
Modern Mindfulness: Hoame
A couple years ago when I was struggling with waves of grief, a boat load of tough decisions and even more confusing thoughts, I remember searching for places to practice meditation. I was never one who could sit still unless I was in a movie theatre, watching Netflix or reading a really good book, but …
Unresolved Feelings: An Interview with Erin Klassen from With/out Pretend
Erin Klassen is a Toronto-based writer and the founder of With/out Pretend, an independent publisher focused on telling women’s stories. Unresolved Feelings III is the third event of it’s kind, featuring 10 women speakers sharing their own stories about unresolved feelings. The event was originally inspired by the book Portraits, a collection of micro-fiction and art …
I am happiest
I am happiest when I’m not thinking… I’m happiest when there is no one there. Not; no people. But no… me. No ideas about who I am. I am happiest When I’m not remembering… That I am a victim of many evils, And the perpetrator of many more. I am happiest When I’m not remembering… …
Fashion Statements
Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves figuratively, others wear their feelings more literally. Making a statement through fashion is far from a new idea, but now some brands are taking that idea to a whole new philanthropic level. I’d like to say that it started with the TOMS one-for-one movement in which founder …
Unrequited
It was an early fall that year. The world seemed to have gone brown and orange overnight, thermometers twice hitting the teens. Fall often brings that classic September feeling left over from elementary school days – obligations gathering, books and football and smells of apples bubbling into sauce. Being a freshman meant that this fall …
One Brave Night
It’s been about month since our first official event, which was held in support of CAMH’s annual fundraiser One Brave Night. The idea came to me as I sat at Cafe Neon with two incredible women from the mental health institution, who were telling me more about this year’s focus as we, The Sad Collective, …