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I left & .yxe ‘s screening last night unsettled…

funding is being cut. services continue to disappear and the people who need them most are being left with nothing.

this isn’t abstract. it’s happening right now, in our city, to our folks that have experienced the worst impacts of oppression and continued marginalization at the hands of colonization, ⚪️ supremacy, racism, discrimination, and prejudice.

nobody is coming to fix this. That’s the message I keep hearing over and over again.

Yet… Hope lives on in $5 increments. a water run to a local organization. A drop off of clothes or shoes.

I am pleading to anyone reading this to do SOMETHING. Not everything. We don’t need people doing everything the same. But we do need most doing SOMETHING.

Start with following:

Prevention matters.
Consent matters.
Harm Reduction matters
Accessible education matters

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What I am thinking about this Mother’s Day 🌹🌸💐

International Harm Reduction Day reminds us that people do not heal through punishment, shame, abandonment, or political performance. They heal through relationship, safety, dignity, housing, community, and access to care.

As social workers, we are ethically called to meet people where they are — not where systems think they should be.

Last week I sat with early childhood professionals and we talked about what happens when women in care work are pushed toward competition instead of community.

The more distracted we are by comparison, scarcity, and individual survival, the easier it becomes for systems to keep care underfunded and undervalued.

We are stronger when we build alongside one another. 🤍

Big thanks to for having me out again!

If you are not willing to examine your own privilege — do not perform participation today.

I am a Métis woman.

And this is not symbolic to me.
This is lived.

It’s in the quiet calculations.
In the moments of not being believed.
In knowing how easily harm can happen — and how often it does.

Being Indigenous in this country means carrying realities that many people only acknowledge for a day.

So wearing red is not the work.
Posting is not the work.
Saying the right words without action is not the work.

Because performative action is felt.

It shows up in the gap between what is said publicly and what actually happens —
in systems, in workplaces, in conversations behind closed doors.

And that gap causes harm.

Real honouring asks more.

It asks you to look at yourself.
To sit with discomfort.
To listen without defensiveness.
To change how you show up — especially when no one is watching.

Ask yourself:

Where do I hold power?
Who is not safe because of the systems I benefit from?
What am I actually willing to change?

This is not about being perfect.
It is about being honest.

Today, I remember.
I honour.
And I will always say this part out loud.

No more stolen sisters.

Marketing isn’t neutral.
As business owners, we hold power — in where money flows, what gets amplified, and who gets centered.

Grateful to be in rooms like this, with people choosing to build differently.
Because community isn’t just connection — it’s resistance.

Big thanks to for including me on this panel and discussion

Shoutout to my fellow panelists:
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Strong boundaries aren’t just personal — they’re business.

Mental Health Week is often filled with reminders to slow down, check in, take care.
And those things matter.

But what often gets missed?
The structures that actually make that possible.

Because you can’t meditate your way out of a calendar that’s overbooked.
You can’t mindset-shift your way out of unclear expectations.
And you can’t sustain a business that constantly asks you to overextend.

Boundaries are the work.

They shape how you show up, how you’re paid, how you’re respected — and how long you can actually keep going.

That’s why I’m hosting a lunch-hour webinar:

Strong Boundaries, Strong Business

🗓 May 6, 2026
🕛 12:00 PM (SK time)
⏱ 75 minutes, virtual
💻 Investment: $45

We’ll get into:

why boundaries break down in business
how to hold them without losing connection
and how to build a structure that actually supports you
$5 from every registration will go to 7th Generation Rising Collective in Saskatoon — because care doesn’t stop at the individual, it extends to community.

If Mental Health Week has you thinking about sustainability — this is part of that conversation.

Register through the link in bio.

Reflections from clothing drive: We can’t wait for systems to change to practice care. We build community now—in parking lots, in conversations, in clothing drives, in showing up for each other.

Reflectjons from first spring collective care drive through clothing donation event:

We can’t wait for systems to change to practice care. We build community now—in parking lots, in conversations, in clothing drives, in showing up for each other.

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