About Yvonne Racine

Yvonne Racine, Life Celebrant and Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, is passionately committed to teaching people how to move through the changes of life so they can be free to live fully and enjoy life again. With 25 years of experience working with people in the transformation of their lives, Yvonne not only has the training to be a Grief Recovery Specialist but also has the experience necessary to see them through.

Opposites

The idea I’ve been playing with the last couple of days and especially in this morning’s journaling is the pairs of opposites. It came up in two different books I’m reading, and the idea certainly

By |2021-11-30T23:38:11+00:00November 30th, 2021|Blog|

Differing Ideas and Opinions

Powerful reminder today about listening and asking open, honest questions instead of discounting and shutting out when something is said that I don’t agree with. I know I have done this many times in my

By |2021-11-26T20:33:23+00:00November 26th, 2021|Blog|

Slowing Down

And the wondering goes on. I’m so grateful for having slowed down in the way a process life. Rather than being in a big hurry to get through questions and feelings and problems and confusion,

By |2021-11-25T21:53:32+00:00November 25th, 2021|Blog|

My Heavy Heart

I was quite disturbed yesterday when I read about what David Suzuki had said about climate change. While he did not overtly sanction or call for terrorist acts, in our current volatile climate it sure

By |2021-11-23T22:20:58+00:00November 23rd, 2021|Blog|

Rest

What a difference a day makes, or rather a good night’s sleep. Sleep was very elusive for me Friday night, so I was barely able to function on Saturday after only 3 hours sleep. I

By |2021-11-21T22:50:04+00:00November 21st, 2021|Blog|

Gratitude

Feeling so blessed today. We had our final class for this spiritual direction training session last night and all my work is in and graded and life is good. Our next session starts in mid-January

By |2021-11-19T22:40:36+00:00November 19th, 2021|Blog|

Personal Credo

Today I share with you my final homework assignment for the first series of classes in Spiritual Direction. It has been the most amazing 8 weeks and I am grateful for every assignment and

By |2021-11-19T16:12:29+00:00November 17th, 2021|Blog|

Reverence and Wonder

Welcome to our winter wonderland. John and I went for our walk this afternoon and found ourselves slogging through a foot of snow and more on our usual trail before finally coming to some cleared

By |2021-11-16T22:55:38+00:00November 16th, 2021|Blog|

Gifts

Just home from our daily walk in the snow today. It is absolutely beautiful out there! I love this time of year. We’re also noticing that this year there are an inordinate number of people

By |2021-11-15T22:49:57+00:00November 15th, 2021|Blog|

Beauty and Grace

Looks like wintery weather is making its first appearance here in Edmonton with a little snow today and the promise of more. I love the changing seasons and the inherent beauty in whatever season we

By |2021-11-14T23:15:45+00:00November 14th, 2021|Blog|
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