Entries by David Irvine

Trauma leaves traces on our minds and bodies.

It leaves an imprint on everything we touch, the way we think, the way we feel, the way we interact with those around us, and the way we live. Join me this Friday, April 25th for a webinar focused on Trauma, Loss & Recovery. Leave with a greater understanding of trauma, its impact on our […]

SHATTERED OPEN – How Tragedies Can Help Us Grow

In the summer of 2024 approximately thirty percent of the beautiful townsite of Jasper, Alberta was destroyed in a fire that swept through that community. Of the 1,113 structures in the town, 358 of them burned. The wildfire covered an estimated 33,000 hectares, the largest wildfire recorded in the park in a century. A mass […]

Decisions change your life

There’s a story about a man waiting in an airport who sees another man returning home from a business trip, enthusiastically greeted by his wife and three children. The joy, love, and caring was so obvious that the first man asked how long they had been married. When told they were married for twenty years, […]

I love books.

I particularly love sitting down each night with a real book. Some of the books I’ve read so far this year: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted. By Suleika Jaouad. This is a deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry […]