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06/28/2022

My latest BalAnce Well-Being Spotlight to appear in Castanet's Okanagan Edge. Thanks again, Annette Adkin, for sharing some of your story and for offering your illuminating insights into the important work that you do! And thank you, Shawna McCrea, for continuing to make such amazing community connections! 🙏

By Tom Kernaghan It is never too late to become the person you are capable of being. But what is getting in the way of you reaching your potential? That is exactly what Annette Adkin of Pure Insights Counselling can help you to explore, reveal and ultimately move through. For 28 years, Adkin has bee...

06/20/2022

My latest BalAnce Well-Being Spotlight to appear in Castanet's Okanagan Edge! This experience was insightful and engaging. Thanks again to Tricia for sharing her personal story and her wonderful work! And thanks always to Shawna -- and Castanet -- for creating spaces and places for us to share our stories. 🙏

Awaken from your past, release yourself from limiting beliefs and begin a journey toward the happy and healthy life you deserve. The path of healing and self-acceptance can be difficult and painful, but you are not alone. Tricia Veltri, the owner of Core Level Healing Therapy, gets you, and she also...

06/06/2022

My latest Balance Well-Being Spotlight to appear in Castanet's Okanagan Edge. Thank you again, Karly, for the privilege and pleasure of getting to know your story more. And thank you, Shawna, for creating spaces and places for stories to shine!

When you first meet Karly Fiddes you feel as though you went to high school with her, worked together on a fundraising project or met at summer camp. OK, you may say fostering familiarity is a core skill of any successful radio host, but it’s more than that. Fiddes’ uncommon mix of verve, vulner...

04/04/2022

My BalAnce Well-Being Spotlight about the amazing and inspiring Matt Stewart, Manager of Staples Studio in Kelowna, is now in Castanet's Okanagan Edge!

“It’s not about being perfect, it’s about being one percent better than yesterday.” When Matt Stewart delivers this line in a recent LinkedIn video promoting careers at the Staples Studio, where he is the community manager, I am reminded of the warm and encouraging impression of the man when...

03/07/2022

It was fun and scary being on the other side of the questions this time! Shawna McCrea did a fantastic job leading this BWB Spotlight on yours truly. Thanks, Shawna! 👍🙏 And Castanet!

By Shawna McCrea I first met you, Tom Kernaghan, on May 10, 2016, at one of our first BalAnce Storytelling Tuesdays. You had recently made the big move here from Toronto, and it was great to hear you were happy to be in Kelowna. And I remember you were so inspired by Storytelling that you …

03/02/2022

A little bit about my remarkable friend Ellen Ehlers!...

03/01/2022

My latest BWB Spotlight to be featured in Castanet's Okanagan Edge: the amazing Shawna McCrea, of Balance Financial! 🙏

When I first met Shawna McCrea at a Balance Well-Being event over five years ago, I thought: Wow, she really understands people and sees possibilities for them miles away. When I learned she’d had years of leadership experience in the financial industry and community building, my engaging first im...

01/10/2022

"Each person has the key to his or her personal growth, transformation, and healing." (p. 159)

Recognize the parts of yourself that parallel my unfolding
self-awareness.

You can get my book Dancing Along the Needle's Thread as hardcover, softcover, and eBook from these retailers:
Friesenpress, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Rakuten kobo

12/15/2021

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12/14/2021

An excerpt from Dancing Along the Needle's Thread by Ellen M. Ehlers, Ph.D. What a privilege and delight to be a part of Ellen's journey. 🙏

Excerpt from "Dancing Along the Needle's Thread"
by Ellen M. Ehlers, Ph. D.

12/14/2021

Excerpt from Dancing Along the Needle’s Thread. What a delight and privilege to be a part of Ellen’s journey. 🙏

12/14/2021

The book continues. One rough chapter is done -- 5,233 words. Feet slowly feeding fingers on a 4,100-km hike of the heart, of sole for soul, heading toward...

07/16/2021

SPOTLIGHT – Tricia Veltri by Tom Kernaghan Image Awaken from your past, release yourself from limiting beliefs, and begin a journey toward the happy and healthy life you deserve. The path of healing and self-acceptance can be difficult and painful, but you are not alone. Tricia Veltri, the owner o...

04/30/2021

Ellen Ehlers has been on a remarkable journey. From her birth in wartime Germany to her life in the Okanagan, Ellen's story is one of revelatory challenges, intriguing experiences, and profound insights into the nature of self and the rich potential in creating one's own path. And I am honoured to have played a small role in bringing her words to the world. Congratulations, Ellen, and thank you! 🙏 Her book is available today through FriesenPress bookstore. Coming soon to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.

You are invited to

03/17/2021

My latest Balance Well-Being member Spotlight to appear in Castanet. Thanks again, Shawna McCrea of BWB, and big thanks to Carla Dawes, for the pleasure of getting to know more about her and the wonderful work she does. https://okanaganedge.net/2021/03/10/let-your-emotions-roam-freely/?fbclid=IwAR0W9f-PIUYHU06drnvybIpOiqwSF7hNPAaRbDaZO-cF2LmhTYsN3GYe93w

Paddleboarding may be the perfect metaphor for Carla Dawes’ work. An emotional freedom and success coach, certified EFT tapping practitioner, and a licensed desire map facilitator who has studied psychology and meditation, Dawes guides women through their choppy waters by creating “a compass for...