Jenn & Chris

Deepak Chopra & The Future of Wellbeing. I've been thinking a lot about what the future holds for us. How we are shifting as a society, how social media is playing a role and how much technology continues to insulate itself in all parts of our lives. I think of how our kids are processing all of this and what it will be like when they grow up. How we are managing through daily life, the push to be "on" all the time quietly suffocating our memory of what it is like to quiet, or even better to be still.

Why women need to talk more openly about our ever-shifting hormones. I am bleeding out like the elevator scene in the Shining. I just cried my way through Avengers: Infinity War. I hit a level of blue monthly that I don't even recognize myself when it comes. Really unkind words come into my head that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I am as horny as teenager and have a fervour for sex similar to an animal in heat, while friends have zero interest in even a kiss. I am a member of the Walking Dead, having not slept

We are all responsible to make sure our kid's tummies are full. It was her eyes. That's what I remember the most. We were sitting in a sidewalk cafe in Buenos Aires, people streaming along the ramblas in front of us enjoying the 30+ heat and sunshine. As we people-watched, I noticed a number of children, dirty, no shoes, messy, tangled hair, carrying babies with diapers as their only coverage begging to those passing by, pleading for money to feed their family. I know what you are going to say, it might have been a scam. A ruse to foil

How to give them the confidence to stand tall in the face of it all. My daughter at 10 has always been awfully independent. When other kids were hiding behind their parents legs, she wasn't. In fact, I was a little envious of the way those kids needed their mom. My little one just seemed to be entirely comfortable heading out there on her own, chatting to new people, learning life lessons as they came. Lately though, she has started asking me to come cuddle with her and help her fall asleep. In the past, I would have told her

We are our children's biggest role models in how to grow up to be good humans. Yet in our running around, hectic scheduled mayhem that is so common today, we just might be teaching them the wrong set of values. Teaching your kids how to be kind (now and in every day) is an important part of modelling as a parent. As the world shifts and changes, more than ever it is important to teach your kids kindness as a crucial part of their core set of values. The holidays can be crazy for sure but it is also the

It may seem glamorous, but it has its dark sides too. Do you remember when we were walking through the rice fields of Sa Pa and sliding/falling in the mud? Or when the kids giggled the whole time clambering behind that waterfall in Banos? Or the sunsets on Koh Lanta?!!  White Water Rafting in Banos was cheap and awesome! Sigh... Such good, good times.  It is kind of "be careful what you wish for" isn't it? Knowing what we do now, I would go back to long-term travelling in a heart beat. The sunsets on Koh Lanta, Thailand are burned