I met Evan AuCoin at HMCS Quadra, a Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Camp, in the summer of 2005. He's one of the biggest teddy bears that I've ever met, and his weight loss journey below is truly inspiring! Why I Lift First off, my name is Evan AuCoin. I’m a 28 year old musician and… Continue reading Motivational Weight Loss Story: Evan AuCoin the Power Lifter
Read Chapter 10 here Well, That’s pretty much my DV story. As I’ve written chapters, I realised just how much I’ve left out, like when he ruined my 21st birthday, or a family trip to Sydney, or about the letter that I wrote to my local Member of Parliament because the police weren’t doing… Continue reading Domestic Violence Stats and How it Affected Me
Read Chapter 7 here It was a Tuesday, and I was originally driving to work, on two hours of sleep after staying up all night when Mike* threatened to kill himself. I spoke to my Mom on the phone and told her that he’d hit me the week before. I told her I was… Continue reading My DV Story Chapter 8
Read Chapter 3 here I moved jobs. This was due to a number of things, my boss was horribly sexist, I could see that I wasn’t being taken seriously, I wasn’t going to progress where I was, and the strain of my site work on my relationship with Mike was terrible. Mike* was still out… Continue reading My DV Story Chapter 4
Laura the Working Mom 