by Tambre Leighn | Mar 7, 2011 | Communications, High Performance
Remember that childhood tantrum where you scrunched down, knees to chin, fingers in your ears singing out loudly, “La, La, La…I’m not listening?!” I do. And on several recent occasions, I wanted to sink to the ground and do just that. Endless...
by Tambre Leighn | Mar 1, 2011 | High Performance
Just as with dance, the rhythms of life change. There is a shift in the timing, intensity, range of movement and style of expression depending on what music the DJ plays. Some dances are more slow, smooth and elegant while others are fast and exciting. A dance,...
by Tambre Leighn | Feb 28, 2011 | Cancer Survivorship, High Performance
There is nothing like a little gold statuette to change your life overnight. Yesterday morning, the nominees most likely woke up with butterflies, anticipating what was to come. There were hours ahead in the day before they finally learned the outcome. Then in an...
by Tambre Leighn | Feb 22, 2011 | Cancer Survivorship, Grief Recovery, High Performance
In Part 1 which began my journey toward letting go, I’d come to the realization that to move forward I would have to release some of the things from the past I was holding onto. When I finally landed in Kathmandu, the most foreign city I had ever visited, after...
by Tambre Leighn | Feb 21, 2011 | Grief Recovery, High Performance
It was February of 2007. Four years had passed since I ran from the wreckage of widowhood in Los Angeles. In my native Toronto, people knew the Tambre who loved life, not the Tambre who sometimes wished for the numbness of death. I’d left Los Angeles hoping to heal...
by Tambre Leighn | Feb 18, 2011 | Cancer Survivorship, High Performance
When I was a young girl, my grandmother used to make me soft boiled eggs. To get them just right, she would hand me an egg timer filled with blue sand. It was my job to turn it upside down and call out when the last grain passed through. As she cut my toast into...