Ah, worthiness! What a captivating concept, don't you think?

It's like a secret treasure we chase, hoping one day we'll stumble upon it and bask in its glorious embrace. But here's the kicker: worthiness isn't some distant mirage, my friend.

It's a vibrant feeling we can cultivate right here, right now. Let me tell you, it's a delightful blend of hope and reality simmering in the pot of our existence.

Now, here's where the magic happens—baby steps. Yep, those tiny, seemingly insignificant moments that often go unnoticed. But let me tell you, hold the power to shift our entire perspective.

Picture this: feeling the worthiness in the little things, like having a trusty cell phone that dances to your every command. Or how about the sheer joy of the sun's warm embrace, greeting you with open arms each day?

These are the building blocks, my dear, the stepping stones that pave the way to a grand bridge of worthiness.

I've had my fair share of experiences, and let me tell you, feeling w...

I don’t know if you know this about me, but I used to be a makeup artist, and I taught a lot of clients how to put on their makeup. 

Before we would start, I would always ask them, how much time do you want to invest in this process? 

5 minutes? 15? 30? Or all the time in the world to look their best? 

And not that a 5-minute face didn’t look good (it did!), but it's not the full dance. We were sticking to the fundamental essentials. The step ball change of makeup applications.

A 5-minute face would be some tinted moisturizer, mascara and some gloss. They would look awake. 

With a 15-minute face, we would do the same but add some concealer blush and curl their lashes (if applicable). 

A 30-minute face was foundation, concealer, blush, mascara, lipstick and liner, and we finished it all off with a misting spray. On the surface, they looked rested, hydrated and present. 

And then there’s the “I got all the time in the world” face. This is when we primed the skin with a skincare ro...

If I had a dollar for every time I thought a part was mine, I’d never have to pay for Starbucks again!

As an actor, it’s common to think a part is yours, only for it not to go your way.

Life as an actor has you putting your craft, your heart, your everything into auditioning for hundreds of roles. That’s means living on a steady diet of disappointment and rejection along with generous side dishes of self-doubt, frustration and often, loneliness.

Ready for the best part?

Just when you think you’ve eaten your last shit sandwich and feel confident that a part is yours, it’ll go to your friend instead. Now imagine it’s not just any role. It a career-changing life enhancing gig.

Sure, there are those Kelly Rowland’s of the world who are instantly happier for their Beyoncé like friends, but it’s possible to go green, see a little red and in severe cases start to feel like they took something from you. But light attracts light.  And what is for you will never miss you — easier to said th...

As a recovering jealousy addict, I can honestly say it is a destructive, distracting and dangerous emotional drug.

I call it an emotional drug because no one WANTS to be jealous.

We want to be happy for others. But jealousy doesn’t care how much you love the people in your life. It just wants to consume you from the inside out until there’s nothing recognisable about you left.

When we can no longer maintain self-control, when we can’t STOP our behaviour even when we recognise it’s a problem — THAT’S an addiction! And it never only affects the user.

We all have goals and dreams, and it's hard to see others getting and achieving the things we want too. It’s hard to watch dreams turn into nightmares. I know because I've been there: in the early days of my acting career, jealousy was my Gin. It would start with one negative thought, “they didn't deserve it” or “they were just lucky” —and before I knew it, I was passed out drunk on negative thoughts.

But the truth was that they got their win...

Visualizing is an important part of manifesting any goal.

As with anything, there are ways of using this technique that are more effective than others.  This process may be a little more involved than what you're currently doing to manifest your objectives, but don't let that stop you.

Practicing will only require 5 minutes each day, and the results will well worth the effort.

Let's get started and make something happen!

1. Be thorough.

Envisioning yourself accomplishing your objective is just a beginning. To be thorough, visualize your life as a whole, including all the changes that would result from achieving your objective. By doing this, you make your vision real enough to have significant effects.

For example, imagining a big pile of cash on your dining room table isn’t enough to achieve greater wealth. If you really did have that much money, would you really have it piled up on your dining room table? Unlikely. You'd most likely have a bank statement or brokerage statement ...

You have no idea how often I've stopped myself from celebrating a victory because I thought the moment for celebration had passed.

I know I'm not alone when I say I've treated my victories like one-night stands. 

Raise your hand if you don’t want to get attached or feel stuck in the past and excited by something that only happened once and didn't t work out in the long run.

The truth is that treating our victories like one-night stands diminishes our achievements.  We’re telling ourselves that what we did was unimportant and insignificant simply because it didn't lead to bigger things… and that's not true.

You’re allowed to celebrate your victories more than once.

Treat yourself to a second victory dinner, go out on the town with friends--again, and live it up. Your achievements are not a one-night stand only to be experienced once.  Celebrating something you have earned and worked hard for is not just about the achievement but about who you had to become to do it.

This will moti...

When I first sat down to write this article, I almost buried myself in a pile of unnecessary work -- like go through studies on happiness and health, poke around the internet for studies that supported my argument for self-care and its relationship to mental illness, and re-read Marianne Williamson's A Return to Love.

But then I realized, those are just facts. Sure, they’re important facts—and the data from them is fascinating—but they aren't why we struggle with self-care in the first place.

We don't know what true self-care is. 

Most people think that self-care means doing something nice for yourself. We imagine it as a destination—a trip to the spa, a long bath, or an afternoon at the beach. But self-care is not an event; it's a process, a way of being. It’s about tending to your needs in order to restore balance and harmony within yourself, so you are better able to be present and available for others.

Self-care does not mean you’re being selfish. 

Selfishness usually has nega...

A spiritual awakening is a process of change.

When we go through it, our old beliefs and societal conditioning start to fall away and we begin to see the world in a new light. Some people call this "waking up."

Now, being spiritually awakened is not all sunshine and rainbows.

In fact, for everyone (with the exception of Eckhart Tolle), it's downright painful.

There’s no doubt about it: undergoing a spiritual awakening can feel like everything you know to be true has been shattered into tiny little fragments that don't quite seem to fit back together again. But rest assured: there are ways to tell if you're going through an awakening (even if you don't have things all figured out just yet). 

Here are signs that you might just be going through the process of waking up—and yes, this includes the "dark night of the soul" stuff too!

You're spending a lot more time alone.

You're spending a lot more time alone. The idea of spending a Saturday night at home, alone, is no longer terrifyi...

Kale is a weird thing. I mean, it's just a leaf, but it can be really hard to work with.

It's so stiff and tough, certainly not as easy to tear apart as lettuce—you need something more aggressive to break it down.

I'm bringing up kale because it wasn't that long ago that I learned how to work with this superfood. 

Picture it: Toronto, 2020. I'm pregnant and in my kitchen making a kale salad with my sister when she gives me a piece of plastic that looks like a leaf with four different hole sizes. This seemingly simple tool would, in one swoop, separate the leaves from the hard stems. That alone was a game-changer. But they were still too tough to eat raw—that's when she told me to massage the leaves, and like magic, they softened and got greener, almost like they were glowing.

Here's how this story relates to you and your practice.

Image your mind is like the kale in its raw state. It can be unruly and inflexible, but meditation is the tool, and the more you use it, the more you ca...

I’ve been meditating my whole life.

Every long walk, I took in nature to clear my head.  Each workout that changed my mood. Or all the journaling I did to get things off my chest, were all different forms of meditation.

Something to remember…

You don’t have to be good at it, and you can’t get it wrong. 

Don’t worry about quieting your mind or trying to feel as still as a leaf falling from a tree on an autumn day. Merely showing up to observe what you’ve been thinking is the first step towards changing how you’ve been thinking.

The more you show up for your daily meditation practice, the less you will worry in your life.

Meditation is less about getting it right and more about getting wrong.

(Record scratch)

Say what now?! …

Getting it wrong means you’re trying, which is why it’s called a mediation “practice.” Strive for progress, not perfection.

Even as little as five minutes a day can begin to steer your mind back on course.

So don’t let the mess stop you from cleaning up. ...