Protecting Your Peace During the Holidays | Make Space for Healthy & New
Peace comes at a cost. For most of us this translates as a loss, or an ending, of something familiar. I will always gladly defend peace.
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Rachelle Innocent
Nov 43 min read
Empowerment Through Choice: Navigating Identity and Alignment Within Ourselves
It is an interesting dichotomy to reflect on… the idea that how we choose, is the clearest reflection of the person we have chosen to become
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Rachelle Innocent
Oct 212 min read
Life is a Flow of Forward Momentum - Keep Pushing Onward.
I have taken wrong turns, I have been impulsive, careless, and dangerously oblivious to the relay between my responses and relationships.
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Rachelle Innocent
Aug 263 min read
There is Purpose in our Pain | Leaning into Growth & Transformation when we Heal
We knew how to heal our mental, psychological and emotional states long before psychology became a serious school of study. We need to feel.
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Rachelle Innocent
Aug 123 min read
Defining Identity as a Product of a Million and One Day-by-Day Choices
We can lay blame, or take blame… shrug our shoulders and call it a day. Or we can take the responsibility of the ways we chose to show up...
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Rachelle Innocent
Jul 152 min read
How Intentionality and Accountability Transform Your Life: The Power of Mindset
However innocent our intentions might be, or not, life holds each one of us accountable to our actions.
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Rachelle Innocent
Jun 178 min read
Changing A Culture of Violence in Environments of Excellence | A Call for Radical Change
The women who participate, and have participated, in the Rotman’s School of Management program who experience violence and are silenced.
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Rachelle Innocent
Jun 22 min read
Why I Will Always Choose the Bear: Man vs Bear Debate
Life has demonstrated that there are worst forms of violence than that which instinct elicits. There is violence that aims to kill for sport
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Rachelle Innocent
May 62 min read
The Inertia isn't Complacency - It's Misplaced Hope
Uncertainty causes us to cling to known pain, rather than embrace an unknown potential for relief. The injury is familiar, cause to hold on.
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Rachelle Innocent
Nov 19, 20232 min read
The Value of History When Creating Anew
Change never occurs in isoLife events that we celebrated in the past, play a role in the life events that we celebrate and denounce now.
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Rachelle Innocent
Oct 22, 20233 min read
Beyond Biology: Rethinking Life and the Meaning of Being Alive
Becoming is delicate. She is the tide born of the decisions we make, the choices we take, the promises we break, and the people we forsake.
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Rachelle Innocent
Aug 27, 20232 min read
When Someone Tells You Who They Are, Believe Them
I choose to believe. I do not feel inclined to challenge, comfort, or offer an alternative perspective. When people tell me who they are...
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Rachelle Innocent
Aug 13, 20232 min read
Reclaiming Our Individuality in the Pain We Endure, Alone
Individuality, the portrayal of identity that we spend too much time denying to meet the standard of “sameness.” Placing value on personal.
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Rachelle Innocent
Jun 5, 20232 min read
Pain as the Intermediary to Growth - Claiming the Beauty in Survivorship
Pain is an intermediary that transports us towards our becoming, all the while exposing the harshness of this world.
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Rachelle Innocent
May 21, 20233 min read
Kill the dreamer, bury the dream. The milestones of a visionary.
The laughter rings with unspoken discomfort. Unsettled with the possibility of an alternate reality within reach, that has no room for them.
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Rachelle Innocent
Apr 10, 20232 min read
Reclaiming the Beauty in Difficulty: Finding Purpose in our Pain
I dare not desire that my life would be any different, then I would be made of something less than what my experiences have developed in me.
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Rachelle Innocent
Mar 26, 20232 min read
"The Path Least Travelled:" Going Against the Grain of Convention
Aligning ourselves to security, stability, or safety… All in the name of responsibility.
When really, we’re selling ourselves short.
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Rachelle Innocent
Mar 12, 20232 min read
All that Glitters… Is Not Gold: Taking the Unchartered Path
Pursuing ones calling requires no standing ovation, or external recognition, to feel rewarded by the experiences that the journey provides.
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Rachelle Innocent
Feb 26, 20232 min read
Establishing Boundaries - There's Only So Much One Should Take
To anyone who predicts that you will submit and to allow them to extract value from you while devaluing you - bring them down to earth.
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Rachelle Innocent
Jan 15, 20232 min read
The talents and gifts we bury. Making our peace with reality.
Sacrificing our dreams was always too high a price to pay, but indeed we paid in full. So take the cautionary tale.
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