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I have yet to find a complete methodology for translating reality. Can you clarify?

I did not specify which reality I was translating. Perhaps we perceive different realities?

What if I read your blog and have an existential crisis?

First, know that I support you just as you are. When in doubt, breathe in breathe out.
You have so much purpose simply by being alive. If a major crisis occurs, it means you are gifted; a critical thinker and perhaps edging close to a personal evolution. It could also mean you are currently intoxicated and by tomorrow morning, you won’t need to worry about this anymore because you will have forgotten. Either way, you’re heading in a great direction.

Is Santa real?

This is a very controversial question; debated vigorously by third graders everywhere. I believe yes, he is real, but his work hours have always been an anomaly to me and I think he should lay off the cookies.

What if I hate your blog? I’m more of a troll than a reader and I’d love to share my anger with you.

Tough situation – you are welcome to hate my blog! But….why are you reading it?  Internet trolls are a fairly new demographic. Before we be trollin’, we be strollin’. If you feel anger, I encourage you to go back to your primitive roots and take a long walk. Imagine back in caveman days when you actually had to walk over to someone else’s cave in order to degrade, troll or criticize them. Then, you had to walk ALL the way back to your cave, not even able to watch for likes or follows, ruminating all by yourself about your comment. If you wanted to reply to it, or add more degrading comments, it will likely mean another life-threatening walk back to the cave, fending off sabre-toothed tigers and Rickets.  It must have been really challenging and mentally distressing. Perhaps all the strollin’ decreased the cave-to-cave criticism and people lived a bit more peacefully. Aside from the tigers and such.

Do you think I should take a nap today or get some work done?

The fact that you are reading this question and pondering it indicates you should take a nap. Especially if the previous question applied to you; absolutely take a nap after your stroll.

I want to be a Guest Author on your website. Is that cool?

That’s very cool. All Guest Authors have their posts on the Translate Reality main page (static page) as well as their name/organization and article on the Guest of Authors drop down menu. Send me an email to inquire!

What do you enjoy most about motherhood?

Playing. Play is so important in life and often as adults, we’ve lost the ability, motivation or resources to play. Play structures are daunting. Tag is a cardiovascular risk. Public temper tantrums are not as well received.  I love having a way to reconnect to a more playful side. Pretending, dancing, crawling on the floor, laughing at spilled milk – these are wonderful moments. Motherhood is an amazing journey; it is fulfilling, exciting and so much fun when you’re ready for it. I wanted to be a parent for a very long time and now, I am a single mom to a perfectly wild toddler.  Every day that I have had my daughter in my life has been better than every other day that she wasn’t.

I really like that statue in the photo at the top of this page; the one on the right side of the dresser. Where can I purchase that cool fixture?

Look closer.

What’s your favourite sport?

Competitive breathing

Can I advertise on your website? Or partner up as an Affiliate?

Yes to both! Send me an email and we can discuss it!

What’s your favourite galaxy?

Andromeda. I just love it. Did you know that one day our galaxy, the Milky Way, and Andromeda will collide into a giant, beautifully destructive, galactic explosion and we will all become one? That’s right. We will be a new cosmic entity and have a new galactic address. We will be prime real estate in this locale of our universe. It will be awesome.

What’s the biggest number in the world?

A googolplex. That’s how many times I rewrote this FAQ page.
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Been camping in this 1974 Boler since Mila was one Been camping in this 1974 Boler since Mila was one. This is year eight; age 8.
We have had so many shared experiences in this beautiful little trailer. Last night, as I watched her sleep in the middle of the night, wondering if I would ever fall asleep as I always do, I felt the breeze coming in the windows and saw images of the one-year-old, a two-year-old, a five-year-old, a six-year-old and now an eight-year-old. All curled up beside me in the sweet little Boler.
At one point, we had Tonka. She was our beautiful Puggle. We now have Beethoven, our beautiful and quite a bit bigger St. Bernard. The whole family slept in the Boler. Part of me did not want to fall asleep. I wanted to stay awake and absorb the moment because I know it will be one that I will look back on. Sometimes the moments just happened. But sometimes moments remind you that you’re living a dream come true and you know that one day, you will go back in your mind to that very moment in order to find happiness.
Don’t forget to notice those moments. Those sneaky magic moments where you are building happiness. sometimes, they arrive in the middle of a sleepless night.
Don’t forget about the things that were just a dre Don’t forget about the things that were just a dream one time and now are a dream come true.
Dirty, happy paws. ❤️ Toven 🐾 Dirty, happy paws. ❤️ Toven 🐾
Single Mother By Choice - Crash Course in Childbir Single Mother By Choice - Crash Course in Childbirth!

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I had been in hospital for a significant portion of my pregnancy. I was admitted to the OBGYN ward but under neurology. It all began when I got a headache. It started right around the time I became pregnant. And then, for some reason, it never went away.

The headache became a migraine and the migraine led to vomiting, constant pain and no ability to ease it. I began battling the migraine with acupuncture, medication if absolutely necessary, a wet cloth over my eyes and other home remedies that I hoped would alleviate the pain. Nothing helped. I couldn’t get through a day, then an hour and then a moment without vomiting and feeling positive my head was going to explode. *Spoiler Alert – my head was actually exploding. This is not a metaphor.*
Old school gymnastics 🤸‍♀️ Old school gymnastics 🤸‍♀️
This year, I did something I’ve never done and nev This year, I did something I’ve never done and never imagined that I would do. And it was the best.
I married my friends. 😁
🫶 @heather.soleil & @heijoshinkarate

I was the wedding commissioner for the most beautiful wedding, and married the most beautiful couple and it was the most beautiful day. It was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done.
It was like being a part of a team. Called Team Marriage. Team work makes the dream work ✨

Now that the wedding is said and done, I still consider myself a part of the team 🥰 Thank you so much to Heather and Phil for allowing me to be such an important role at your wedding. I married you guys so hard! 🙏🫶 

Wishing you a lifetime of happy moments!!
One dose of Fukitol, please. Actually, make it a d One dose of Fukitol, please.
Actually, make it a double.
Sometimes. Sometimes.
Prairie storms ⚡️ Prairie storms ⚡️
Stop it. Right now. #thisis8 Stop it. Right now. #thisis8
Spring in Winnipeg 🌺 🌳 ❤️🤩😐 Spring in Winnipeg 🌺 🌳 ❤️🤩😐
Wish I had a big dog. Wish I had a big dog.
Time to pack up and leave Winnipeg and head to Bra Time to pack up and leave Winnipeg and head to Brandon! Brandon’s Big One spring market begins tomorrow and runs all weekend! This market has over 100 exciting vendors and is an amazing event. Hope to see you there!
Drive yourself into the ground with work and peopl Drive yourself into the ground with work and people are impressed. Assert a personal, healthy boundary and everyone hates you. Let’s get deeper into this topic because when you take good care of yourself, you take good care of everyone and everything around you as well.
Little You is extremely important. As I said, we’d all die without this layer of our consciousness. If we saw a polar bear chillin’ out downtown and it ate our friend, without the ego to tell us ‘hey, that was unpleasant for our friend. Maybe we shouldn’t pet that polar bear’, we would willingly approach the bear with zero consideration of our safety. The ego, Little You, is critical for survival.
Big You doesn’t worry about right and wrong from the perspective of human systems and egoic determinations of a situation. This layer of you is a voice that speaks behind the ego. With enough practice, it becomes easy to hear the voice of Big You and differentiate it from Little You. Big You knows what direction you should go and it produces ‘gut feelings’. Little You and Big You work together in your life; your intuition and gut feelings attempting to cooperate with your urges, fears, rights and wrongs. It’s a confusing world to be You.

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My yoga partner. Wish we didn’t have to share a ma My yoga partner. Wish we didn’t have to share a mat tho…
Life with the world’s biggest dog. 🐶🥰
‘It is my daughter who taught me how to see life. ‘It is my daughter who taught me how to see life. There was no lesson more profound than her turning seven years old. Her life at seven opened a parallel reality in my mind, and forced me to reconcile with things that had remained in deep vaults of denial. Realities that only a mother could see.
Her tiny size. Her needs. The way I raised her. Her hugs. Her vulnerability and innocence. All of it touched my heart deeply, and it broke it too. Suddenly, I became the eyes of the mother and my past at the same time.
The more I imagined my adult self saving my child self, the more connected I became to that fragment. The living being that was my former self; frozen in time and waiting to be rescued. I rescued me as many times as I could.
I still do.’
Why would you do this to Barbie, you barbarian. Why would you do this to Barbie, you barbarian.
Trigger warning. Gymnastics. Parents don’t know wh Trigger warning. Gymnastics.
Parents don’t know where coaches hands should be. Especially not for a skill they’ve never seen, where everything blurs into motion. No child focuses on the hand placement when they’re terrified of the skill itself. That fear protects the predator. It enables him to be exactly that; a predator, seemingly protecting children from injury on skills he decided they needed.  It is a safe person and a pedophile wrapped into one.
Happy 1st birthday to the biggest, most loving din Happy 1st birthday to the biggest, most loving dinosaur of a pup ❤️❤️❤️🐶🐶🐶🐾🐾🦴

The best pup ever. Truly. And the biggest. The biggest dog you will ever see. It’s fucking awesome. Love you Toven! 🐾☺️🐾☺️🐾☺️
Last September, I travel to Ottawa Ontario to be a Last September, I travel to Ottawa Ontario to be a part of the recommendations on the Future Of Sport in Canada. The final report has been released today. Please let me know if you would like the link sent directly to you and I can do so, as well as send you the link of the press release today.

A few quotes from the final report on Sport in Canada:

“Now is the time to transform beliefs, values, behaviours and practices. Sport in Canada can — and must — become safer, more inclusive and accessible, more efficient, more aligned in purposes and practice, better integrated and more accountable to those it serves, particularly the most vulnerable among us. Every level of government, every organization, and every individual who cherishes sport, and these fundamental Canadian values, must contribute to this shared purpose.
We owe no less to the current generation and all who will come after them.
Change is absolutely essential.”
“The Commission heard heart-wrenching stories of serious abuse. We were told that maltreatment in sport takes many forms, including sexual assault, physical and psychological abuse, neglect, racism, body shaming, bullying, hazing and discrimination. Victims and survivors described feeling humiliated, degraded, and broken.”
“What enables maltreatment in sport
As we look closely at the complexities of ongoing, pervasive maltreatment in sport, we recognize that these issues are not isolated incidents. They are a symptom of larger systemic problems, including power imbalances, a long-standing culture of silence, historical normalization of harmful practices, and a self-regulated sport system.
Understanding the multifaceted nature of maltreatment and the environments that allow it to thrive is essential in order to collectively create safe, respectful, and supportive sporting environments for all.”

“By bystander training, we mean education on recognizing, preventing, and responding to harmful behaviours in sport, and on the legal duty to report child abuse and the contractual obligation to report prohibited behaviour under the Universal Code of Conduct.”
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