Having completed my career as a family physician January 1, 2020, I have been enjoying turning my attention towards workshop creation and facilitation, life coaching, teaching Nia classes, and to writing. Of course, the onset of COVID meant that until recently all workshops, life coaching and Nia classes had to be offered online.

I self-published my fourth book, We Are Already Whole: A Book of Reflections and Invitations, in February 2021. This book was designed to help us get to know our True Self. It has been good to see this little book make its way, slowly but surely, into the world. I enjoyed teaching an online companion workshop, which gave time and space to delve more deeply into the book via discussion and journaling.

I self-published my fifth book, Fully Connected: How to Live A More Contented and Free Life, in October 2023. This book explains how, having discovered one’s True Self, we can remain, as much as possible, aware of our connection with our True Self, during the course of living our lives. This involves learning how to deal with the distractions that keep us from feeling our connection, as well as learning how to deepen our connection.This book is also a book of reflections, accompanied by a series of invitations.

I recently completed a year-long course called Journey of the Soul offered by Ontario Jubilee. It was a rich journey of self-discovery, as I learned more tools and practices that help me offer techniques that can help people with their spiritual development.

In April 2022, I began a year of training to become a Certified Sage-ing Leader (CSL) for Sage-ing International. In 2015 I took their weekend workshop called Deepening the Sage Within. I knew right away that someday, I would like to be able to lead workshops that help us grow gracefully into becoming elders and sages. Finally, the time is here! Graduation day was March 26,2023!

I discovered retirement coaching in summer 2022. Indeed, it was challenging to retire just before COVID began, and I was interested in digging more deeply into the information that is available about Baby Boomer retirement. I completed the certified retirement coach training program in September 2022, and since then, I have been enjoying serving people going through their retirement transition, one on one, and via offering Transitioning into Retirement day- long workshops.

The first few years post-retirement from medicine have been amazingly rich, despite COVID putting a serious damper on in-person engagement. I used the time primarily for study and writing and presenting workshops on Zoom. Now, as we begin to emerge from the pandemic, it is my joy to be able to offer in person events again.