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How Visualization can Enhance Your Life and Enable You to Make Your Dreams a RealityMuch of the experiences we indulge in and the routines that we have normalized didn't exist if we think two or three decades ago.Many people discount the power of following your dreams, and bringing your imagination to life... Yet much of life is a byproduct of other people doing exactly that. Whether it's enjoying an evening of glow in the dark mini putt, enjoying an indoor rock climbing gym, or booking an escape room team building experience with friends and colleagues... we have each stepped into dreams made into a reality at some point in our daily lives.Part of the journey involves visualization. There is something very powerful about leveraging visualization to bring your dreams into real life, and if you haven't tried it... I have some tips on how to get started today.#visualization #visualizer #innovator 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 12:00 How Visualization can Enhance Your Life 12:00 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

A Plan is Not a Strategy - Still, a Good Place to Get Started on Building Your DreamsHaving a plan can be the simplest way to create clarity, find alignment, and execute with precision on the goals that mean the most to you.Plans are not static. They interact with the shifts and changes in our personal lives and in the larger socio-political dynamics that we find ourselves in. This means that planning needs to be agile, responsive, and adaptive to the outcomes and results (or lack thereof).When planning is agile, responsive, and adaptive you couple planning with strategy. You will need to think critically about how you position yourself and make changes as real-time as possible.#planning #strategy #leadership 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 13:30 A Plan Is Not a Strategy - But a Good Place to Get Started13:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

Dealing with Disappointment While Continuously Pursuing Your Dreams & GoalsIf you have ever pursued a big dream, the kind that requires planning, training, sacrifice, and shifts... then you've already become well acquainted with disappointment.When we focus on the challenges that stretch us beyond our current capacity, we give ourselves the opportunity to awaken dormant talents, skills, and abilities... that the added pressure activate.This happens when we push through our present limitations, we stay the course, even amidst disappointments.The old adage says it best, "If success were easy, everyone would have it." If your dream is as big as it feels to you right now, know that it will always be worth pushing through the disappointments that the path to achievement will inevitably bring.#mindset #failure #feedback #growth 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 8:30 Dealing with Disappointment8:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

How to Deal with Intense Emotions - What Everyone Should Know About Dealing with LossLoss happens to all of us.While it can be true that your experience with loss might be unique to you, know that grief in all its stages is something that we are all figuring out.How we cope with loss is a huge indicator in whether we enable ourselves to address and accept those loses for what they are, while still appreciating and being present for what is, or finding yourself too debilitated by loss to see or hold space for what your life requires of you right now.No one could say that loss is easy, but given that it is necessary and part of life, better we cultivating the mastery that enables us to persevere, to bounce back, and to cultivate strength through grief and grieving.#loss #perspective #grief #resilience0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 18:30 Coping With Loss in Our Lives18:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

Learning to Value the Feedback in Failure and Taking the Insights to GrowMany of us were raised with a fear of failing, myself included.But when you dare to try you have to be prepared to fail sometimes. What's equally important is that while we may fail at the things we were hoping to achieve, there is a gain in every life experience.I firmly believe that failure is feedback. Not the feedback that makes you feel unworthy and not enough, but the kind of feedback that gives you more information and that helps you to level up.Rather than look at failure as a stumbling block, see it as a stepping stone. In truth, we are never ahead or behind in life... and no matter what you're pushing through you'll come to realize, you are always exactly where you're supposed to be in life.#mindset #failure #feedback #growth 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 13:30 Recognizing that Failure is Feedback13:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

Disliking Someone Does Not Give You the Right to Disrespect Them No Matter the SituationThere is nothing wrong with recognizing that you don't like someone. Maybe your justification could use some work, but let's be real, we don't always need to justify how we feel.That said, no matter how much someone grinds your gears or disdain they generate within you, that does not give you the right to disparage, disrespect, and degrade them. Resorting to that behaviour will always say more about you than it does about them, and not in a way that puts you in a positive light.There is the option to protect your peace. You can live harmoniously even with the people who do not like, at the very best. At the very worst, there is no harm in being cordial and rising about the desire to kick the person you dislike down. Why? because disliking someone is not a call to disrespect them.#mindset #values #principles #respect 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 15:30 Dislike is not equal to Disrespect15:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

The Truth About Personal Agency and How Your Choices Shape Everything Around YouDeveloping the critical thinking that fosters sounds decision-making is too fundamental a building block to hope that the school curriculum covers it.Much of the free programs made available in our communities focalize on skills that increase cooperation without highlighting what key factors creates high-impact and high value collaboration. If everyone shows up ready to follow someone else's lead, then the lack of directive and guidance can easily create stagnation and frustration.Everyone needs to feel equipped and empowered to show up ready to exercise their personal agency. Make the choices that can drive the change and innovation that many are looking to extract from collaborative and individual works.It's not enough to want to do good, it's important that we recognize that personal agency is a skill we hone with practice, intention, guidance and support.The more we allow others to make those hard choices for us, the less we'll be equipped to make the critical life choices we need to make for ourselves.#criticalthinking #personalagency #autonomy #decisionmaking0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 10:30 Personal Agency10:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

Evaluating Your Relationships and Cutting Out the Frenemies in Your Life for GoodWhat's the quality of your closest friendships?It's a question we forget to ask ourselves, which leads to normalizing behaviours that would be otherwise deemed harmful, toxic, or completely out of bounds.As everything in life, there are stages and phases that impact the relationships around us. Sometimes the phase and stage are the wakeup call you didn't know you needed.Insight that gives you the clarity of mind to recognize what friendships no longer serve you and rather than suffer through the relationships, you take the stand and walk away.If you have the kind of friends that make it seem pointless to also have enemies, then maybe it's time to reconsider where you're investing your energy in 2026.#relationships #toxicrelationships #cuttingties #growth #clarity0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 16:30 Evaluating Your Relationships16:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

How to Change Our Relationship with Fear and Step outside of Our Comfort ZoneContrary to what some people believe, fear has great utility in life.Much of the decisions we make have an element of fear that fuelled the course of action we have chosen.Whether it's fear of the unknown, or fear of something tangible in your space, it's the kind of motivator that keeps you moving, pushing, and can be the catalyst to so much change in your life.All good things in moderation, although.It's important that we cultivate self-mastery around our fear, so that we don't inadvertently find ourselves in a situation where our fear is ruling over us and our decisions#fightingfear #mindset #relatable #storytime 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 16:30 Changing my Relationship with Fear16:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

What I Learned the Hard Way by Surviving Narcissistic Abuse and Focusing on HealingThe bitter pill about abuse is that it doesn't happen in a vacuum.Chances are, if you grew up normalizing abusive behaviour you will attract this behaviour in the relationships and friendships that you have, as well. Mostly because we normalize and are desensitized to the cues that signal abusive behaviour or bad intentions, given the environments we are familiar with. This was the case for me, as I dealt with breaking ties not only with my family, but in my personal and professional network as well.Healing enables us to break the patterns and the cycles of abusive, if we focus on doing better when we know better, and prioritize our own healing.Do you have any questions? Send us an email: [email protected]#narcissisticabuse #healing #breakthecycle #breakthesilence 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 15:30 What I Learned the Hard Way15:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

Breaking Free: My No Contact Journey After 5 Years of Cutting Toxic Family TiesExactly 5.5 years ago, I went no contact and cut all ties with my immediate and extended family.It was a hard choice but ultimately, the best choice I could have made to support not only my mental well-being but also mitigate and manage the increasing threat I felt to my physical safety. Rather than treat the subject as taboo, I want to really be transparent about the process. There are a lot of people (women, children, and men alike), who suffer abuse that becomes increasingly violent because the complicit silence from their communities means there is no consequence or accountability for the abuse and mistreatment. In Canada, there are approximately 100 to 187 victims of intimate partner homicide and 187 victims of family homicide each year, according to recent data (Statistics Canada), the majority being women and children. My story not only involved family abuse but also translated as abusive treatment from the mentor that I had at the time.Given my career path and academic background, I had the privilege that many women do not and I was able to start from scratch and build a life that I love, abroad. But there were some challenging years, first... and a lot of inner conflict. So I would like to take the opportunity and speak to those who are going through their own storms... in hopes that they have the courage to maintain alignment, and not go back to abusive and unsafe situations... or to take that leap, and leave them once and for all.Do you have any questions? Send us an email: [email protected]#familyabuse #domesticviolenceawareness #innerconflict #healing 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 16:30 5 Years of Going No Contact16:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

3 Ways to Feel More Creative and Think More Creatively to find Inner BalanceCreativity is something we all have in common.Maybe not to the same extent, as not everyone holds creativity to an equal standing. Finding a creative outlet, regardless of what you typically do professionally or even personally, can be a great way to find balance, grounding and maintain a sense of personal wellness.Exercising that creativity muscle is beneficial, whether you're the next Picasso in the making, or good at making stick figures. In 2026, prioritize finding that creative outlet that gives you that sense of balance and recharge.Do you have any questions? Send us an email: [email protected]#creativity #creator #balance #wellness 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 11:30 3 Ways to Feel More Creative11:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

3 Red Flags You Should Never Ignore When Someone Reacts to Your Boundaries In Every Stage & PhaseHealing has no age limit. It's something we can start to do, regardless of the stage and phase we find ourselves in life.When we begin to heal, one of the natural effects of the process is becoming more in tune with our own sense of values, beliefs and convictions. As we discover our voice and what we believe in, we begin to find the language to articulate our thoughts, needs and desires. More importantly, we start to develop the confidence, and sometimes courage, to communicate our boundaries. How people respond and react to your boundaries tells you everything you need to know about how to position those people in your life.Here are 3 red flags you should never ignore when communicating your boundaries. In the most extreme of cases, paying attention to them can save your life.Do you have any questions? Send us an email: [email protected]#healing #growth #courage #boundaries 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 11:30 3 Red Flags You Should Never Ignore11:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

Learning to Appreciate Those We Love by Matching their Energy and Showing UpAs we all are getting ready for the Christmas season, however that translates for each of us, it's an important opportunity to talk about reciprocity.When we think about the holidays, we think about taking the time to show gratitude and thankfulness. It's an opportunity to reconnect and spend time with the people that we love.It's important to recognize that reciprocity is the single best way to ensure that the people you care about, feel care about by you. We can appreciate the things people say and do for us, but taking the time to reciprocate, to match their energy, is the only way to ensure they feel that appreciation and feel equally valued.Rather than approach the holiday season with entitlement or expectancy, let's focus on matching the energy of the people we want in our lives for the long haul.Do you have any questions? Send us an email: [email protected]#reflection #growth #holidays #reciprocal 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 11:30 Why Relationships Require Reciprocity11:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE

Protect Your Mental Health During Holiday Stress with these 3 Tips!This the season to be... your choice!It's a toss up lately. This is a time of year people either love or hate, or have a love-hate relationship with. But the holidays isn't just for gingerbread house competitions and mistletoe, it's a great time to reflect on the that's past and think about how you've shown up.Specifically, how you've shown up in ways that make you feel proud, feel purposeful and feel prepared for how you plan on making the best of 2026.Christmas isn't just about the hustle and bustle. It's about presence and taking the time to show yourself grace, and recognition for all that 2025 has done to propel your growth.So if you want some tips on how to support your mental health over the holidays, I have three reflections that might just do the trick!Do you have any questions? Send us an email: [email protected]#holidays #recognition #reward #christmas 0:00 - 1:30 - Introduction1:30 - 9:30 3 Mental Health Hacks9:30 - Wrap Up*RESOURCES*For all topics related to renewing and rebuilding family, communities and relationships, check out our blogs! We post bi-weekly:https://www.spe-projectpurpose.com/blogsMake sure to come visit us, subscribe to the website, and join our Member's Area for more valuable content:*SOCIALS*Website: www.spe-projectpurpose.com Facebook Page: @ProjectPurposeSPEInstagram: @ProjectPurposeSPE or my personal account @realistraeTwitter: @Purpose_SPEPinterest: @ProjectPurposeSPE