Donna brings to you:
 
Over twenty years working in the mental health field. It is this experience with working and journey with people through life altering circumstances that gives Donna the perspective that life is rich and that people have an indomitable spirit that becomes awake during the most tragic time of our lives. Donna often refers to this as the Gift of a Thistle. Yet, she believes you don’t have to experience life altering tragic circumstance to reap the benefits of a life really brimming instead of skimming. We have this tendency to go through life on auto pilot, usually hectic and stress filled that we seldom pause and appreciate the very breath we take and the things that take our breath away.
 
Through this privilege of traveling with others during their most difficult times there is a gift to be shared and yearned for and that is of Reflection: Reflections of light is a natural, active, illuminating, conscious, transformative, replenishing process involving perspective and knowledge. It is about, creating the type of life we want to live with awareness, joy and compassion for oneself and others. It all starts with acknowledging where we are at and not pretending, coasting, sleeping, just existing through life; Its about life’s breadth and living a life brimming with passion, purpose and possibilities.

Donna has been interviewed on national television, radio and newspaper and published a manual on disaster response used nation wide. She has been nominated for an international Human Interaction Best Practice - Spirit of Caring Award.

I was born in rural Manitoba and I am the sometimes good daughter of Wilfred and Dora Helgason, sometime exasperating sister to David and Jona, naughty niece to nine Aunts and Uncles, wonderful Wife of Kent, amazing Mother of Brenna, Calum and Rhett and the super Aunt to nine and a friend to many.

I am refueled by time spent in nature, riding the black horse Rava, sitting on the shores of Lake Winnipeg in the summer, yoga and being the most extraordinary fan for our three kids.

My passion is people and the human spirit.

I am also a Registered Psychiatric Nurse, Mental Health Consultant with an Baccalaureate Degree in General Studies from the University of Calgary. I am an educator and consultant to the Calgary Health Region and McInnis & Holloway Funeral Homes.

For the past 15 years I have had the privilege of living in the Alberta Rocky Mountain Foothills with my husband, three children, two dogs, five horses, three cats and three goldfish.