Every week on Friday, I share a list of the most interesting and inspiring content I’ve read lately here on my blog. You can expect thoughts on productivity, happiness, balance, spirituality, politics, and more. Subscribe here to get updates. See archives here.

The most inspiring thing I experienced this week was the retreat I was a part of last weekend, Nurture. Huge shout outs to Sonja, Kathryn of Golden Age Botanicals, Mel of Sunday’s Company, Jo of La Jo Lee and Jodianne from The E Project for making the weekend so incredible.

I’ve been trying to practice these strategies for sitting up straighter in any chair and they really feel like game changers – like, how did I not know these things before?!

My favourite customer relationship management software just released their scheduler functionality, and the entire community went bananas! I truly love Dubsado & would recommend to anyone with a creative business. This is my affiliate link if you want to save some money!

After a particularly infuriating experience dealing with a man in a professional context last week (truly awful), I appreciated the satire in this ‘how-to’ article about being less threatening as a woman.

I LOVE the idea of Seth Godin’s Thanksgiving Reader, which I only found out about this week! Will definitely save this to use at a future Thanksgiving.

I lost track of how many times I teared up on the streetcar listening to this absolutely brilliant interview with Elizabeth Gilbert. Her life, her wisdom, her kindness, her grief. All I can say is, “oh, the humanity.” It’s beautiful and raw and wonderful.

If I was going to stop bullet journaling (which I probably won’t), I would succumb to the true beauty and thoughtfulness of the Monk Manual. Also an excellent example of how to run a successful Kickstarter campaign.

This week I had a narrative healing session with my wonderful friend Braden, and it was very powerful and very inspiring. He is about to move to Mexico to work on writing his book, but I would watch this space in case he opens up more such sessions. He is very wise.

Also inspired this week by my new rubber plant, in the world’s cutest pot. I get happier every time I look at it. Consider this your permission slip to go buy a new plant for your home.

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So many inspiring things to be a part of this week, but the flip side has been spending a lot of time alone to recover from all the activity. I’ve been exhausted and kind of run down, and the VERY cold weather we’ve been having here in Toronto lately has not been helping at all! I am looking forward to a weekend of relaxing, reading fiction, writing in my journal, and playing with the dog. I hope you have a wonderful weekend too! xo.

Every week on Friday, I share a list of the most interesting and inspiring content I’ve read lately here on my blog. You can expect thoughts on productivity, happiness, balance, spirituality, politics, and more. Subscribe here to get updates. See archives here.

Last weekend I bought my friend Katie her first tarot deck, The Illuminated Tarot. The imagery is so stunning and the cards are such a perfect size. If anyone’s in the market for a deck, I’d also recommend mine, The Wild Unknown, and the Animal Spirit oracle cards which Katie gifted me last weekend.

I am so inspired by my friend Brune starting her daily blog. Talk about goals! I am strongly considering making the commitment for 2019 but I am scared of not following through. Bolstering myself by reading lots of Seth Godin.

This week on Instagram, I started following Rachel Ricketts. I’ve been enjoying her content and am planning to register for her Spiritual Activism 101 webinar when she next offers it, because I unfortunately won’t be able to watch it before it expires on November 18th.

I ran into my friend Addie at the park and she told me about a fascinating course she’s taking called Leading from the Emerging Future, which is free. Can you believe? Definitely on my list for next year.

I can’t say I’m not intrigued by these sparkling CBD drinks.

Celebrities: they’re just like us! But seriously, I too love washing dishes by hand and find it incredibly soothing.

Thanks to Dense Discovery for this awesome reco of a fast, easy-to-use tool to create polls. It obviously went straight into The Appothecary!

This week I revisited Ask Polly’s perfect-in-every-way column, “I Hate Men”. If you’ve read it before, let me say that I got so much more out of it this week than I did last year.

On Instagram I shared that I’m starting a newsletter for my business! I’ll be sharing thoughts on building businesses with intention, having better boundaries, managing our time & energy and being more productive. Want to get it when it’s ready? You can sign up here! PS. I recommend always using a secondary email address for newsletters, even mine.

Last but not least, this week I was incredibly inspired by the power, strength, and fierce compassion of the women in my life who showed up for me in ways big and small when I was going through something strange. I hope you all know how much I love you and how grateful I am.

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This weekend, it’s Nurture: Fall 2018! Sonja jokingly calls me the ‘executive producer’, which means I help out with all the logistics and make sure everyone gets the information they need. And I chop vegetables and wash dishes with love. I cannot wait to be there with 13 other incredible women and bask in their wisdom, joy and kindness. It’s magic and I want to appreciate every second. I hope you have a wonderful weekend too! xo.

Every week on Friday, I share a list of the most interesting and inspiring content I’ve read lately here on my blog. You can expect thoughts on productivity, happiness, balance, spirituality, politics, and more. Subscribe here to get updates. See archives here.

I listened to this episode of Hurry Slowly twice in a row to really understand what she was saying and I found it very refreshing.

Offline inspiration this week included reading I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya. So good, so important, so educational.

I also went to see Hello Sunshine x Together Live this week which featured Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Ibtihaj Muhammad and other interesting women. If it’s coming to your city, check it out! Very cool women telling stories.

I am also inspired by the Democrats winning back the House of Representatives and by the fact that there are more women in the House than at any other time in history. More good news here (and yet we have a long way to go).

One of the teams I work on started using Basecamp this week and it’s such a game-changer! Highly recommend to anyone working on a big team that needs better communication and project-management. Asana is another fave.

Last week I ran my first workshop all about email management and email boundaries and it was so much fun! I was really inspired by every person who attended, because they’re all up to such interesting things. Big thanks to Nurture for letting me use their new workshop space!

In lovely and helpful tech tutorials, this week I learned how to use my phone as a remote for a Google Slides presentation. Life-saver on workshop day!!!

This week on the podcast I’m talking about how fun it is to add things up over time and let that momentum be a form of motivation. This is also the last episode of season two!

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I didn’t have a lot of time to read articles online this week – I was busy doing a lot of work before my friend Katie gets here for the weekend! I can’t wait to see her and pick up our endless conversation where it left off back in August. She’s such a joy in my life and it’s so fun to spend time with her. If you need me, I’ll be eating, drinking and talking. I hope you have a wonderful weekend too! xo.