Pianist for 20+ years, piano teacher for 10+ years. I specialize in teaching tactile learners, highly sensitive people, and trauma survivors.

Calgary
Joined July 2023
You’re not the one person out of 9 billion on this earth who’s too broken to grow. You are a human being. And humans were designed to overcome. Even if your struggle feels like too much to bear, Choosing to bear it is what will build you into the kind of person who can handle it.
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His voice got better with age. Absolutely incredible ❤️
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I usually ask ChatGPT to help me sort out health issues, but I tried @grok today instead and wow. Way better informed, works inside the tight source parameters I asked for, doesn’t give me disclaimers and warnings at every turn, straight to the point. Love it.
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🚨 BREAKING: There’s a MASSIVE Alberta Independence rally being planned for October 25th at the Legislature. This could easily be the largest rally in Alberta's history. Will you be there? Location: Alberta Legislature, Edmonton Date: October 25th Time: 4–6 PM
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Sleep is an underrated key for learning.
"Sleeping on it" is scientifically proven: People solving hidden-rule puzzles had 59% insight after sleep vs 23% staying awake the same duration. Sleep reorganizes information, revealing hidden patterns your waking brain missed.
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Working on an online course for beginner pianists lately. The first 3 modules are about 90% complete, and I hope to release them by the end of September, but realistically they will be ready in November. My target dates continue to shift, but that’s alright. Nobody tells you how much work it takes to produce a thorough educational product as one woman with multiple responsibilities. I know that I’m giving it the best I have, and that will have to be good enough… Just like practicing piano.
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For everyone else who’s grieving today.
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You don’t find your passion. You cultivate it by doing something with enthusiasm for a long enough time until you discover the depth of that craft, leading to a burning passion for it. You generate passion in the pursuit of a goal you may not have wanted to pursue, but you saw it as necessary to reach the life you want, so you shut your mind off and did it anyway.
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These stats are insane.
'The economy is worse, crime is worse, public services are worse, affordability is worse — and there’s a whole galaxy of niche indicators, such as firearms incidents, refugee backlogs, even life expectancy, that are worse than they’ve ever been' nationalpost.com/opinion/ins…
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The internet has made humans lose the lost art of trying stuff, reflecting, course correcting, journaling, writing plans, or getting actual books to get deeper information than a quick Google answer. Try stuff. Find out.
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All ground is enemy ground except the ground you occupy. If you do not occupy your mind, the enemy occupies your mind. If you do not occupy your choices, the enemy occupies your choices. When I don’t occupy my mind, it goes where I don’t want it to. …just like a little kid. If you don’t watch them, they WILL get in trouble. Then before you know it your house is on fire.
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How can you apply this to your piano practice? 💀 When you hear a discouraging voice 🧡 Encourage yourself 💀 When you feel like you’re working hard for nothing 🧡 Celebrate your success 💀 When you don’t have time 🧡 Improve what you do with the time that you have
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What other ways can you think of, To occupy your territory?
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At his request, I met with Prime Minister Mark Carney @MarkJCarney today. We had a very frank discussion in which I made it clear that Albertans will no longer tolerate the way we've been treated by the federal Liberals over the past 10 years. I provided a specific list of demands the next Prime Minister, regardless of who that is, must address within the first six months of their term to avoid an unprecedented national unity crisis. This includes: • Guaranteeing Alberta full access to oil and gas corridors to the north, east, and west • Repealing Bill C-69 (aka. “no new pipelines act”) • Lifting the tanker ban off the BC coast • Eliminating the oil and gas emissions cap, which is a production cap • Scrapping the so-called Clean Electricity Regulations • Ending the prohibition on single use plastics • Abandoning the net-zero car mandate • Returning oversight of the industrial carbon tax to the provinces • Halting the federal censorship of energy companies I also made it clear that Alberta, as owner of the resource, will not accept an export tax or restriction of Alberta’s oil and gas to the United States, and that our province is no longer agreeable to subsidizing other large provinces who are fully capable of funding themselves. Lastly, I made it clear that federal mismanagement of Jasper and Banff national parks resulted in last year’s tragic wildfire in Jasper and is endangering Banff, and the situation must be rectified immediately.   With the federal election about to be called, I encourage all Albertans to get involved in what is likely one of the most pivotal and important elections in our nation’s history, and to support the party and candidates that have consistently advocated for freeing Alberta from federal overreach and the repeated economic attacks our province has faced from Ottawa over the past 10 years.
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This is the key to increasing your practice time.
Consistency before intensity. Start small and become the kind of person who shows up every day. Build a new identity. Then increase the intensity.
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If you do not stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
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