It’s official — I am now a holistic health coach, also certified in HeartMath after completing a training on stress, anxiety, and self‑regulation offered by HeartMath, Inc.!

There are moments when something inside me — a quiet inner strength, an intuition — urges me to be bold and speak about delicate topics… has that ever happened to you?

Exactly two weeks ago, my partner and I left Montréal for Gaspésie, where work was calling him.

But Gaspésie… is far! It took us the whole day to get there (with a few stops along the way, of course, to stretch our legs!).

After a personal realization about the breadth and meaning of art for each of us — sparked during a conversation about activity ideas with colleagues — I had the chance to lead a group coaching session on the topic yesterday!

How about a 30-day challenge to refocus on the positive in our lives? 

With all the conflicts, differing opinions, and negative discourse circulating around us these days, I felt like launching an activity that would bring us together rather than divide us — something that would unite us instead of separating us… no matter the physical distance between us.

When we feel overwhelmed by life and can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, we tend to fall into a bottomless pit of negativity… has that ever happened to you? How do we get out of that dead end?

As conflicts and differing opinions erupt from all sides, deepening an already‑present sense of separation, we often forget that we are, first and foremost, social beings — community beings.

Since the beginning of 2025, I’ve felt a strong urge to clean things out! And that’s exactly what I started doing in early January. But my need still hasn’t fully settled!

When I talk about cleaning, I’m referring not only to the physical need to create space in my home, but also...

Often, our perceptions color our judgment and influence how we act toward a person or a situation — without taking the time to validate those perceptions.

As part of my end‑of‑year reflections, I prepared a small summary of the accomplishments my partner and I achieved through our dance school during 2024. While digging through our videos to put this recap together, I stumbled upon our very first demos* from late 2022 — the moment when we had just launched our Brazilian zouk school.

How do we change course when we're in the heat of the moment and demands, both personal and professional, are coming from every direction?  What if you took a step back to analyze the situation? After all, yin energy invites us to introspection. 

Yesterday’s word, Imagine, made me dream — and imagine a world that brings together all the reflections from this Advent calendar. So on this Christmas Day, I’d like to offer all of us the permission to imagine a world where:

Have you ever heard of the five love languages, a concept developed by Dr. Gary Chapman? According to him, we all have preferences in how we express love, both in how we offer it and how we receive it. 

I don't know about you, but my body has been telling me for the past few weeks that I'm sleep-deprived! So what do I do? I try to reorganize my days to prioritize my sleep! But why? Studies show that a lack of sleep is associated with...

As the days grow shorter and darkness settles in earlier and earlier, I can’t help but notice our tendency (and I’m absolutely including myself!) to retreat indoors sooner into our warm, cozy homes — and, as a result, to expose ourselves much more to artificial lighting. Of course, artificial light has its advantages… but it also has real impacts on our sleep. But what's the link between artificial lighting and our sleep?

Since this topic keeps coming up in my conversations lately, why not explore it a little more! So here I go, with a few questions to spark reflection (and there are no right or wrong answers... simply an invitation to explore with me!):

• Do you adapt your eating habits to the seasons? 

• How do your meals differ between winter and summer?

When was the last time you had an appointment with yourself? Simply to take the pulse of your situation, your inner state? We often run from one place to another, from one meeting to another, from one day to another... without really taking the time to find out how our body and mind are doing. Life often has its own way of moving us forward, putting little clues in our path which, if we pay attention to them, open up new horizons for us!...

Although I've never really celebrated Thanksgiving in my family, the day remains for me a beautiful invitation to recognize our close relationship with nature and to reconnect with it.

How many times have you refused to do something new and/or uncomfortable in the past year? And why didn't you dare try it those times? Often (and I totally include myself in this), we're afraid of ridicule, of being looked down upon or judged by others, of not measuring up... but measuring up to who and what, anyway?

On this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, I can't help but note, with a certain sadness, how history tends to repeat itself... And I'm not trying here to diminish the importance of this day and the victims it highlights - quite the contrary. Rather, I'm trying to see how we can learn from the past to reduce the chances of such events happening again.