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Accessible Triathlon: A How-To Guide

One of the things we’ve found challenging about doing this triathlon is how little information there is out there in terms of the how-to’s. … So our plan is to try to change that! Continue reading
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Why Triathlon? (Or ‘How Disability Helps Me Tap Into the Essence of my Humanity’)

If you’ve been following along this week, you may be wondering why we would go to so much effort to do something so few people even attempt? Continue reading
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Triathlon: Accommodations

So what exactly does it mean for us to compete in a race like this? Continue reading
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Triathlon: Goals

There are actually very few athletes out there competing in tandem triathlon of this nature. … There isn’t even a category for this type of triathlon racing because there are so few of us. Continue reading
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Triathlon Here We Come!

So we’ve been gearing up for a while now, but the big day is now just one week away! Continue reading
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“Not Lying” vs. “Telling the Truth”

Learning to tell the truth means getting honest about our emotions and about our motivations. Learning to tell the truth means getting honest about our pain and our limitations, about our hopes and our dreams. Learning to tell the truth means learning how to tell those things to other people, yes, but possibly more important… Continue reading
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Human Bill of Rights

A few weeks’ back I discovered an incredible resource by Peter Walker. Okay, it was actually just a simple list, but as I read it through I realized that even though I loved all of the things on this list, I had never accepted that they were true for me. Which was brain-boggling for me. How… Continue reading
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I Always Wished …

Disability is a tricky thing. No one would say that there was a hierarchy – we would say that everyone was equally valuable. But the truth of the matter is that some conditions are sexy – they get money and press and attention and extra resources and walks and big, multi-million-dollar foundations. And other conditions… Continue reading
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Canada Day 10K Race Report

It’s becoming a bit of a tradition for us to do the Barrie Canada Day race. It’s easily accessible right down at Heritage Park, it’s not too expensive (especially if you sign up early, which this year we did not), it’s full of lots of friendly faces we know and love, and it’s a great… Continue reading
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MEC Race 3 10K: Race Report

Saturday we woke to a beautiful (if slightly overcast and a little bit chilly) day. We packed the chairs up in the car and headed down to Earl Rowe Provincial Park for the MEC Race Series’ third race of the season. Continue reading
About the program
In 2017 I was newly self-diagnosed with atypical autism, struggling with burnout, and striking out when it came to therapists who could address the issues I was facing. At the same time, I was building skills around life coaching, shame reduction, and trauma-informed therapy for work. Gradually I realized that what I needed – an embodied, autonomous, agency-driven coaching approach to unmasking – was not something I was going to find “out there”, but something I was going to need to create if I wanted to recover my life. This was the moment the Values Based Integration Process was born.
Having developed the program for myself – and having seen the incredible results it brought in my own life – I began to use it with coaching clients. The results were out of this world!
After conversations with Dr. Devon Price, the technique was featured in his book Unmasking Autism. With it, came interest in the technique and the decision was made to begin training coaches and therapists to help make this toolkit more readily available.
