Event for WIN and NIM!!

Topic: Celebrating the end of an amazing year!! By getting together and enjoy this day and being surrounded by good friends and foods that will make you happy and warm your heart, Bring a wrap gift of a $5.00 minimum to deposit on Santa’s bag so he will be distributing them to everyone. Oups… you might end up with your own gift…HA! HA!

Bring a non wrap gift or a money donation to help the WIN Foundation to our yearly distribution before Christmas to give to a shelter and don’t forget that we are raising money trough the sale of the new recipe cook book "A Gift from the Stars" by Daniel Ravine. Proceeds go to the Daily Bread Food Bank for Christmas meals.

Your Host: Nikole Bélanger, WIN Founder; Special Guests and surprise Santa Claus will be with us! Gift will be distribute and many Door Prizes!! 

Cost: Brunch and Coctail $50.00. Young participants - brunch only (18 and less / students) $40.00. Cash or Cheque. Send your payment before November 30th. At 4-70 Upper Canada Dr. Toronto, On. M2P 2A3

Brunch & Cocktail:  Mimosa cocktail or Morning Glory (Champagne & Orange Juice) will be served and coffee or tea (vegetarian choice available).

Display table: $25.00 for members & $35.00 for non-members.

Cancellations: will not be accepted. Full charge will apply with no exceptions.. However; substitutions for registrants can be made at any time. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding in this regard.

Door prizes! If you want to contribute to a door prize, let us know. You give....you receive.. That's what it's all about!! Please don't forget to bring your business cards with you!

R.S.V.P (please type Christmas Party with Santa on subject line) by email at: meetings@winwithresults.ca or (416) 226.3288





Final Thoughts: from Nikole with LUV...

Legacy of Love

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in it’s own way. _ Leo Tolstoy

Most people assume that Christmas is hardest for children who’ve stopped believing in Santa Claus. But I think the holidays are the most difficult for those who experienced a recent loss, or are going true a difficult time, through death, divorce or illness, particularly if this is the first holiday that their world has been torn asunder.

Many single mothers often feel uncomfortable at Christmas and unconsciously convey this discomfort to their children. One way this is done is by putting off holiday preparations until the very last moment, then throwing everything together in a halfhearted frenzy. Perhaps one of the reasons single women and single mothers experience difficulty during Christmastime is because, deep in their hearts, they think holiday traditions belong only to perfect Norman Rockwell families. The first time a women newly on her own opens the ornament box alone(if she even bothers to pull it out), she experiences such a sense of loss she may decide not to continue the holiday rituals she once treasured because the comparison of Christmas Past with Christmas Present is too painful.

“What’s the point?” she says.

The point is that we all need the reassuring and healing messages that treasured rituals provide. ”One of the most important aspects about family traditions – rituals that families continue to do year after year- is that traditions have symbols and families need symbols, “Dr. Steven J. Wolin, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical School, explains: “You bring out the old glass, you sing the old songs, you say the same prayer, you wear a certain outfit, you set the table in a certain way “. These are the unconscious moments of family ritual that become emotional security blankets to be tugged on in times of stress.

Cherished customs are just as important for grown up as they are for children. When I first began updating Victorian traditions for modern families, I thought the reason I delighted in doing them was so that I could create happy memories for my daughter. But after a few years, I realized that our rituals brought me comfort and joy. I longed for the reassuring rhythm of marking the seasons just as much as my daughter did. We need to trim the tree, light the menorah, make the Valentines, dye The Easter eggs, and attend the Passover seder just as much as our children do. Our souls can never outgrow the yearning for luminous and liminal moments of Wholeness.

So unpack those beloved holiday traditions. Create new ones that express your authenticity, just as you create a new lifestyle. “Traditions are the guideposts driven deep into our subconscious minds,” Ellen Goodman tells us. “The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of.”

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