Blogs

Reframing Our Story  Over the past few weeks, I've shared a lot with you on this blog, more than I've ever shared about myself or my journey in a public setting. I'm hoping that my thoughts have shown you that even though life can dish out some, well, let's not...

Your Mind is a Badass Too!A few years ago, it occurred to me that as humans, we all experience low periods, times when we feel broken down and neglected, and these thoughts have the power to derail progress, love, goals, and pretty much anything we hold dear. You...

My Friend Fear Fear is a mind-blowing entity that has the power to derail or promote progress. It has the potential to take you on a journey, but it's up to you whether that path is one that you learn from or succumb to. I believe it's all about the relationship that...

Kimberley Rivando-Robb Series #3Lately, I've been thinking about what it means to be successful. What does it mean to get to the point in life when you can look around and feel in your gut that you have made it across the finish line and can sit back to relax. If I'm...

A moment in timeI’ll never forget that moment on the beach when I discovered the warrior that lived inside me. The moment when I let my pain truly wash over me and accepted that I was different, my heart was a shattered mess, but I was free. I was a troubled woman in...

Feeling The Love After Trauma Ok, let's talk about something that we haven't talked about on this blog and that is intimacy. I have a very skewed relationship with sex and intamacy. When I think about the lessons I learned or didn't learn about this important topic I...

Kimberly Rivando-Robb Series #1Wow! It has been a very long time since a blog has gone up. This past few months has been busy with a lot of changes and exciting projects. I will share those soon but in the meantime, I am so excited to be sharing this guest blog post...

Poetry?I often share many of my lessons from healing and for years, therapy was the only safe place for me to engage in healing. When you have complex trauma it is difficult to feel safe in most spaces. For me having that layered with the work I do in community I...

Sorry Not SorryYears ago I had a wonderful clinical supervisor who would mention every time I said “sorry”. I remember being trained at the Niagara Sexual Assault Centre about how often women apologies for simply existing but it wasn’t until the supervisor pointed it...