Learning to Exhale: A Leader’s Journey
Discover practical tips, insights and strategies to help you connect more deeply to your heart and breath so that you can transform your life creating space for more peace, joy and clarity to emerge.

Strong on the Outside. Fried on the Inside.
On the surface, my life looked pretty put together. Behind the scenes, I was falling apart. My career grew as I intended. I went from bedside nurse to public servant in re-establishing quarantine during SARS in 2003, to running the National Stockpile for Canada to...
Reset Your Rhythm: A 3-Day Recharge Plan
Have you been waking up exhausted, relying on caffeine to make it through the day, or feeling wired and restless at night? You're not alone. And it's not a sign that you're broken or failing. It's a sign that your circadian rhythm, also known as your body's natural...
The Myth of Heart-Centered Leadership: Empathy is your edge.
Let's be honest: somewhere along the way, we were taught that heart and leadership don't mix, that empathy makes you weak, that if you show too much humanity, you'll lose credibility, and that leadership is about grit, logic, and results, not about feelings.I know...
How Art Journaling Unlocks Hidden Insights and Helps Us Navigate Change
Just like my guest this week, I, too, had told myself a story that I needed to stay. I was at a certain stage in my career, making six figures, and I had a plan: I'll just spend X more years at my job because I liked the people, because it was a good fit, and because...
How I Keep Going When Overwhelm Stops Me in My Tracks
There are days when I sit down to work, ready to move forward, and instead, I feel frozen. I stare at my to-do list, knowing exactly what needs to get done, but something inside me refuses to move. The weight of everything happening in the world from the state of...
5 Signs It’s Time to Leave Your Executive Role
Being an executive comes with its unique blend of rewards and challenges. You have influence, make big decisions, and lead teams toward success. What happens when the success of external wins no longer ‘fills’ you, and you begin to feel a shift or lack of alignment to...
Tammy Delaney-Plugowsky
Your Leadership Wellness Coach
Driven by my passion for enabling healing and growth in others, I have dedicated myself to helping leaders reconnect with their true selves and find holistic solutions to life’s challenges.
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