Ripple Effect

A very Sackville edition! All roads lead to Open Sky Co-operative. Co-founder Margaret Tusz-King shares her Ripple Effect: how a family history of autism, a background in health care, social activism, and returning to university as an adult to complete post-graduate work in Adult Education came together over dinner to create what is now a sustainable farm with a mission to to fill a gap in support services for adults who experience barriers due to social disabilities or mental health challenges.

Many of us are stress eating, which can lead to a rabbit hole of feelings. ICYMI: Dr. Jennifer Salib Huber - RD ND talks about what led to her passion for helping people overcome diet culture programming and embrace body acceptance and a healthier relationship with food. Her Facebook page Everyday Intuitive Eating is a supportive community for people looking to change their relationship with food. Have a listen: https://podcast.anointment.ca//diet-culture-is-a-life-thi/ or subscribe on iTunes/Spotify/Stitcher/GooglePlay. Share your thoughts in the comments below!

EPISODE 11 HAS DROPPED! This one hits close to home for me as someone who has experienced 3 C-section births. I'm joined by Katie Kelly PT who developed a passion for educating women on how to prepare for and treat those who have experienced C-section birth including scar treatment and massage. Bonus: listen for a special discount offer for virtual birth preparation courses at Motherhood Link.... https://podcast.anointment.ca//recovering-from-c-section-/ and on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, GooglePlay.

A new episode of Ripple Effect drops tomorrow. If youre at home for two weeks, nows a great time to catch up on past episodes! Find Ripple Effect on iTunes, GooglePlay, Spotify and Stitcher and at podcast.anointment.ca. If youve enjoyed the episodes I would love it and appreciate it SO much if you would leave a review on iTunes and share the podcast - help us reach more people! Which episode was your favourite? What topics would you like to see covered?

Episode 10: How the Podcast Was Born is LIVE! There were times I wasn't sure from concept to reality that I'd make it this far! In celebration, I thought I would tell you the story behind the inspiration for the this podcast and a little about me. https://podcast.anointment.ca/ and all major podcast platforms including iTunes, GooglePlay, Spotify and Stitcher.

Episode 9: We Are How We Define Ourselves is LIVE! Rug hooking artist, author and small business owner Deanne Fitzpatrick describes her journey from professional therapist to embracing her identity as an artist. At the heart of it all how living authentically has shaped a successful career, but even more so, a life of creating beauty every day. https://podcast.anointment.ca/ and all major podcast platforms including iTunes, GooglePlay, Spotify and Stitcher.

Episode 8: Hypopressives for Pelvic Floor Health is LIVE! Hypopressives instructor, yoga teacher, and doula Christina De Haas describes the practice of hypopressives and how this European postpartum standard of care using breath and posture can improve the strength of your pelvic floor, your abdominals and diaphragm, allow you to be better connected to your body, and contribute to your overall wellness in a way that you can control with a daily (or several days weekly) 10 min...ute practice. Bonus: I started practicing the techniques, find out what I learned! https://podcast.anointment.ca/ and all major podcast platforms including iTunes, GooglePlay, Spotify and Stitcher.

Episode 7: Unsticking From Story is LIVE! Katharina Reed has been supporting women for over 35 years. Having experienced a transformative event with the birth of her granddaughter, Katharina is filled with a renewed mission to work with women interested in lifting themselves up, shed self-limiting beliefs and inter-generational stories to live their potential. Using archetypes to identify her story, Katharina shares what led her here, how it has shaped her work and inspired a new business, Unsticking from Story. https://podcast.anointment.ca/ or on your favourite media platform (iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher).

Episode 6: Things We Don't Talk About is LIVE! Serial entrepreneur Renée Warren candidly tells her story of becoming a mother - twice - in 11 months while building a business, and in an incredibly busy season of life. She found herself caught in what she came to understand was an undiagnosed postpartum mood disorder. Renee shares her experience, the moment she realized she needed to take steps to achieve better balance, and how that has shaped her life and led to a business ...helping entrepreneurial families achieve balance of their own. https://podcast.anointment.ca/

Merry Christmas! Ripple Effect has a new episode to contemplate while you prepare dinner, all about gratitude! <3 Designer Janet Murphy describes her path to embracing progress not perfection through gratitude journaling. Sharing her journey from burn out to conscious living, Janet tells us step by step how to cultivate gratitude daily and project gratitude to build joy into every day living as we approach a new year. https://podcast.anointment.ca/

Epsiode 4 is LIVE! How Is Your Heart Today? Dr. Sarah Hardy Walsh, ND, IBCLC shares how she helps women cultivate resilience during their transition to motherhood through community based drop-in sessions, group programs and private house call consultations in South Eastern New Brunswick. She shares her thoughts and experience on providing compassionate care for women and babies, advice for how to connect with your inner wisdom to determine your core values as a parent, and he...r wishes for changes to how women are supported in their early days of mothering. Find the latest episode at https://podcast.anointment.ca/ and on all major media platforms (iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play)

Episode 3 is live! Share Your Spare, the story of Anointment's own Lindsay Murray, who is a living kidney donor! Listen to her story of intuition, the donation process, and how living life with one kidney hasn't slowed her down at all! https://podcast.anointment.ca/ or on all major podcast platforms!

Episode 2 is LIVE! Find it at podcast.anointment.ca, iTunes, Google, Spotify and Stitcher. ***** How often have you heard conversations between girlfriends joking about peeing themselves if they laugh too hard as though it is a fact of aging or a consequence of having children? Pelvic floor physiotherapist Ramona Kieser, PT discusses pelvic floor health, how peeing when you sneeze is NOT inevitable, and how common pelvic floor issues can be professionally evaluated and treated

Episode 1 is LIVE! Find it at podcast.anointment.ca, iTunes, Google, Spotify and Stitcher. ***** When diet and exercise dont give you the results you had achieved in the past, youre a health care professional AND you connect your own experience to that of your patients, you begin to see our societys relationship with eating from a whole new perspective. That was the pivotal moment that led Dr. Jennifer Salib-Huber to a renewed passion for nutrition, body image, and our daily relationship with food. She began a Facebook group called Everyday Intuitive Eating, dedicated to the Intuitive Eating philosophy and unraveling the mindset of diet culture. She also began witnessing the personal growth that can happen when we unpack the baggage we have been carrying around body image, diet, and exercise.

Welcome to Ripple Effect Podcast by April MacKinnon: Diving into how re-framing our self-limiting beliefs and behaviours and bravely chasing our dreams ripple out to change the world, one action at a time. And how, sometimes, it is the small moments in life that lead to a complete pivot in perspective, only to be found in hindsight.