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As a social worker of twelve years, Colleen has worked with individuals and families helping them to develop healthier living skills and teaching them to improve their parenting and communication skills. Colleen has specific work experience in the areas of domestic violence, crisis intervention and parenting education. She is a certified instructor for the Active Parenting programs and has instructed the How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Siblings Without Rivalry parenting programs in her local community.
Colleen holds a particular passion for helping others to recognize the importance of creating and maintaining a well balanced self-care program that addresses the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of healthy living. Currently a stay at home mom of three school aged children, she is also familiar with the challenges stay at home parents face with respect to finding ways to integrate their own self-care plan with their parenting responsibilities.
Eager to turn her lifelong passion for writing into a career, Colleen has completed college extension courses on Memoir Writing, Personal Essay Writing and Personal Journaling. She has been maintaining personal journals for 25 years and attributes her love of writing to the support and encouragement she received from high school English teachers to submit her work to young authors conferences. She was selected to attend her first Young Authors Conference in Whitehorse Yukon in 1985 based on a collection of poetry works she had composed throughout her high school years.
Intent on following in her parents' military footsteps, Colleens junior and senior high school extra cirricular activities focused on participating in local Cadet Unit training. She spent six years with the Royal Canadian Army Cadets and Air Cadets as a youth, and continued her military involvement with the Canadian Cadet Organization by becoming an Officer with the Cadet Instructors Cadre of the Canadian Reserve Force. She received her Queen's Commission in 1987. Colleen has since served in Supply, Administrative and Training positions in both Northern Area and Prairie Region, has been employed at Cadet Summer Training Centers and has served as the Commanding Officer in two Air Cadet Squadrons and one Army Cadet Corps.
Colleen spent her formative years living in the Yukon Territory and remained there until her first marriage. She has since lived in a variety of cities across western Canada, including military bases and small northern communities. Although she currently lives in the northern prairies, she remains passionate abut the Yukon and yearns to permanently relocate to her hometown one day.