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Getting out for a walk on a very cold winter's day near the Train in Stanley Park.
My wonderful family!!
The tall coastal cedars and the wind from the Pacific Ocean I grew up with, persuade me to be outdoors as much as I can. We raised our family this way and it's become a value I encourage the families I work with to embrace. I am privileged to work alongside parents raising their infants and preschoolers in a community development setting.
I am excited to develop Parenting Education supports that will be relevant, researched based, easy to understand and most importantly, easy to implement.
I am concerned about our younger generations and the absence of personal experience of life essentials, often replaced by information sound bytes and copycat presentations. My questions are around how to create attractive-enough healthy life choices in comparison to the glitzed up renditions; how to create hunger for these choices; how to support the younger generation that wants to embrace healthy life choices; and how to encourage them to pay it forward to the rising generation.
Personally, I want to walk-the-talk, that's for sure! As my professional field is flooded with prenatal to early years brain development and overall brain activity research I see the disparity in my own life. I desire to attain simplistic physical and mental health accomplishments. This looks like walking every day or two, putting together a simple yoga routine I can do at home, practicing Mindfulness every day or two and having enough time left over for unstructured events and time with friends. I also love fun, meeting new people, listening to music - especially live music, and getting out to big crowd events!
My goal is to establish healthy patterns and routines in this decade of my life in order to set my way of life that will see me though to the end of my days. As the hospice saying goes, "Living fully until we die." Dame Cicely Saunders
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