My home town is Vancouver B.C and I graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in 1971.
I was raised by my wonderful “Positive Thinking” mom and had a younger sister of whom we are best friends to this day.
I worked in the Corporate World in downtown Vancouver at Weir-Jones Engineering; National Harbors Board; The Board of Professional Engineers of BC in various senior level administration and accounting duties.
I attended many night time courses at BCIT College and Langara College in Accounting; Word Processing; Psychology and Sociology.
I wanted a change from the corporate world and when a school friend asked me if I would be the deckhand on his commercial salmon fishing boat traveling from Vancouver to Prince Rupert I said yes. For 5 years I had the Best Job Ever!
I decided to move to Vancouver Island and get away from some of the “Big City” noise and met my wonderful husband of 36 years. We had a daughter who is married now with 4 children ages 2 to 12 and they live down the road… love being a grandparent!
As it was hard to find work in a resort area when I first moved here and my husband was working in mining camps or travelling, I wanted Tiffany to have some stability of one parent home so I decided to start my own business “Union Bay Business Services” of which I taught bookkeeping, set up computer systems and did Income Taxes for 15 years.
I was in town getting groceries with my daughter and I saw a car on fire on the far side of the road… the man was waving and we stopped to give him ride to safety as it seemed it was going to explode. A van behind us saw this too and didn’t see us parked on the side of the road and hit our car and sent us turning over and over down the ditch.
My husband was out of work at the time and I was told I would never be able to sit and do my Accounting work again because of my back… and having no income I was losing our home, my business and my health. I am 90% of the time very positive and happy but I could feel myself going into another realm… depression.
Well, you know how life goes… I saw an ad in the newspaper about “Power Coaching with Mind Kinetics” Life Coaching to promote “Positive thinking” and learning healing tools to help myself and others and I thought I sure could use this right now… So I remortgaged our home and here I am 21 years later.
I studied and wrote many examinations for 3 years from Coaching and Leadership and have achieved my Senior Certified Power Coach, Certified Group Coach and Mentor designations.
I am creating workshops now for family units designed to support Healthy and Happy Home Environments.
I was the Founder of “Valley Youth Project Assoc. (VYPA)” which was one of the youngest incorporated charities in Canada. We operated for 5 years until the members got older and had their own families and jobs to attend to. Our intention was to “Educate Hearts and Minds”. These wonderful young people I taught Self Coaching Tools that we all participated in at the beginning of each meeting to bring a sense of calm and for their personal use in their personal space when not together.
I am also taking a course in “Therapeutic Painting for Coaching Clients” and soon I will be offering this service too.
HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY ON PURPOSE!