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Continue reading →: Recovery from a Bad Day
Yesterday was a bad day. After many attempts at trying to convince myself otherwise, I have come to terms with the fact that the company I work for does not align with my core values, and that its past time I do something about it. I spent the entire day…
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Continue reading →: Giving Up Is The Win
It is currently 4:08 AM and I have been awake for 2 hours and 8 minutes exactly. In that time, I have tossed and turned about 100 times, I have prayed that sleep would return. I have grabbed my phone and looked at instagram for about 30 minutes to make…
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Continue reading →: The Body Needs Quiet
I am lucky enough to work from home. Which means most of the time (99.5%) I can wear whatever I want to work – and for the times that I have to dress somewhat professionally, I can throw a turtleneck sweater over my tshirt/pajama top/tank and drag a comb through…
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Continue reading →: The Antidote
I have been living with burnout now for almost 2 months. Well burnout coupled with cPTSD. I have basically withdrawn completely from life -social and otherwise. I have cut my teaching way back – from 25 hours a week, to 8 1/2 hours a week. I have shown up to…
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Continue reading →: Be the Salmon!
On the last day of 2025, I did a meditation with my group, about beginning the new year by letting go of the pain and stress of 2025. It worked. During the 30 minute session, I had a vision that the upcoming spring would be watercolour like. Muted, watery, colourful,…
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Continue reading →: Muffin Therapy
Last night, I had quite an intensive session with my therapist. I wont be sharing the gory details here, but the topics of conversation were: spiritual death, spiritual awakening and its toll on relationships (all of them), ghosts, abuse, and the reframing of my childhood. Right when we were smack…
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Continue reading →: A Manifesto
I just returned from a creativemornings meeting. Those who know me best, know how much I love these meetings. These events make me feel like I can breathe, when I have been digging myself out of a cell for the last 30 days (in a period where I am struggling…
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Continue reading →: Supporting Friends Is Self Care
Last night, I had the opportunity to support a very good friend (via livestream, because I live far away), as she shined in the lead role as Madame Flora aka Baba, in the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra’s production of The Medium by Gina Carlo Menotti. I think that most people feel…
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Continue reading →: I am a Time Lord
It’s taken me awhile, six months or so, to figure out a hidden benefit of a self care practice. The more I prioritize myself, my healing, and my own self love and care, the more time I have. I am no longer rushing around trying to get things done. I…
My name is Laura. This blog will serve as documentation on a 90 day (and perhaps longer) commitment to new self-care practices. If you find yourself here, you will join me in daily walks by the water, and occasional forest or tree lined street, new to me healthy recipes, some lessons discovered during therapy sessions, reading a few books, watching a few movies, and finding some fun. This journey into self-care will revolve around my core values of curiosity, creativity, inclusion, accountability, and harmony.
Welcome.
Solitude & Sereni.tea 