Healing Brown Bear

08/22/2025

That’s right- this week we’ve unveiled three brand new offerings from HBB ✨

I want to help you find your small business success. 🫶

Together, let’s discover new ways to make your brand stand out with our Brand Development offerings that include custom marketing material development, such as business card design, to effectively reflect your business identity. ✨

We’ll also discuss your web presence & how effective e-commerce sites that take into account the user experience can optimize your revenue growth with our Web Design service. 💻
We can build a brand toolkit that gives you access to templates, fonts, & colours that allow you more freedom in how you promote your social media presence with Custom Social Media Packages. 📱

Whatever your small business graphic design needs are, HBB has got you covered. ✨

Book your complimentary consult today 🫶

08/20/2025

Oh hey ✨

After over 10+ years of retail management experience, 7 of which were spent as the brand & product trainer for a luxury skincare brand, I am happy to announce that I am officially taking Small Business Consultation clients. 🫶

Want to explore how your brand can increase visibility across platforms? 👀

Or how about understanding your consumer habits to better direct your business expansion goals? 📈

Or delve into the world of effective pricing models that reflect both your hard work & the demand found in your market? 💰

If any of the above sound like you- we should talk. ✨

Book your free Small Business Consultation to learn more how HBB can help you grow. 🐻

08/18/2025

After many, many requests over the past couple of years I am excited to announce that as I move into a new stage of self employment with HBB I am now offering commission availability ✨

Do you have a vision you want to see come to life in my style? Let’s talk about it during a complimentary consultation. 🫶

Together we’ll create masterpieces 🎨

PS: You may think it’s earlier- but if you’re looking for Christmas gift commission work now is the time to start getting your requests in 🤫

08/02/2025

Ending off talking about my people with my literal soul sister, Siu. 🌈

Siu is without a doubt the most magical being I know. Period.

When she came up to Sarnia to visit us a few weeks because she was in London I was so excited I almost couldn’t sleep the night before. 🫶

Siu is the friend that really encapsulates adult friendship for me.

As our friendship grew I learned so much about myself. I learned how to be gentle, how to take up space, as well as how to better hold it for others, and I learned that I didn’t need to ache for kinship, I could forge it.

The amount of self-love this person has brought into my life is… unbelievable. For that I am beyond grateful.

In October of 2024 I performed Siu & her Ocean Heart’s hand-fasting ceremony. Under the Full Moon Clover & I wove the rope to be used, and thought about how lucky we were to be partaking in such an important event.

What ensued was a weekend of seeing just how large Siu’s heart is. I think there are some people who would be faced by this & would feel a certain level of possessiveness over this sort of friendship.

But I didn’t.

I simply stood in awe at how much love, community, & kinship this one human had made for themselves just by being a kind & true being.

What a beautiful thing to witness.

Because of Siu I left that weekend with even more lifelong friends. We laughed. We went on mini little field trips. My wife felt comfy being my wife that entire trip.

That was because of Siu.

I just simply adore them.

I am beyond thankful for a friend that showed me how easy adult friendships are meant to be. That listens & holds space, that sends songs that remind them of me, that draws original artwork for me & my home.

When Siu stopped by a few weeks ago, it was like no time had passed. Distance & adult life makes connecting as frequently as we like difficult, but that doesn’t change the strength of our bond.

Ultimately, Siu is a friend that makes me a better friend to everyone else I love & care for. I doubt I would believe myself even half as cool as I do now without Siu.

& that’s really, really cool to me. 🫶

07/31/2025

Oh did you not think I was going talk about more people that I love & that made me, me this week? 🤔

This is Ruth, when she came down last October to visit us here in Sarnia. ✨

Ruth is a chaotic little Pisces & is exactly why the Astro Bird for Pisces is a Piping Plover.

What is more Pisces coded than a cute, small bird running around & screaming repeatedly? 🤣🫶

But for real- Ruth is one of the few friends I have from my good ol’ soap cult days, & let me just say: she made working in the Eaton Centre a whole lot more bearable.

In fact, one time, while closing, I dropped a box of shampoo bars. The shampoo bars exploded into soap noodles & as I laughed at the bars and said “same” my laughter turned to real tears.

It was rough going my guys. The Eaton Centre is not for the weak of heart.

As I stood there with tears streaming down my face, Ruth quickly scurried up the ladder to comfort me…

By licking the tears off my face. 🤣

& I can’t even fault the method, because it worked.

Ruth is the only person who could do that to me & make me burst out laughing. To be fair, I think Ruth is the only person I know that would jump to that for comforting someone.

Truthfully, Ruth is one of those friends who actually can get away with a lot more than I would normally let anyone get away with, and that’s simply because I adore her.

In short: the soap cult definitely gave us our fair share of brain worms, but we’re still here, & for that I am so thankful.

Especially because there really is no one I love to see winning quite like I love to see Ruth winning.

There’s something special about getting to know someone when they’re in the trenches & then getting to see them put the work in to dig themselves out.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Ruth lately, to tell you the truth. Mostly because I keep thinking of a particular text convo we had after a really rough close, while on the Go Bus back to Brampton.

A bit of manic rambling about how we deserved better, & what exactly I was going to do to get there. I

t’s funny how the outcome looks so different know, but the dream is still the same.

& of course I had to put Chiquitita as the song, Ruth’s FL bop. 🫶

07/29/2025

07/29/2025

Ok but who made Kyraith into the Kyraith you see today?

Let’s talk about it. ✨

Meet Keely or as I affectionately refer to her as, Keeks. 👌

Part of the inspo behind Virgo Astro Bird ♍️

I say part because we both do be September Virgo Queens 👸🏻

Keeks, or as Anubis calls her, Aunt Keeks, is a real one & a day one. My ride or die since pretty well the very first day of elementary school in Sarnia.

We grew up together, and I mean literally, grew up together. From trick or treating every year with one another, to Canada Day spent altogether, to birthday parties spent snacking on our fave foods. Keeks was there through it all.

That’s really important- because as I noted a couple weeks back now… my childhood was a lot, like… a lot, a lot. But through it all one thing remained consistent, and that was my day one bestie.

I’ll say it plainly, proudly, & with my full chest:

I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Keeks & her family. Period.

My parents used to say to me growing up “it’s a very thing to find a lifelong friend so young, stay close to her, it’s a blessing to have this.”

And though adulthood, as it often does with childhood besties, has us living on opposite ends of Southern Ontario, we still know that when we do see one another again, it’ll be like no time passed at all.

Knowing in our heart of hearts we’ll always be those same two girlhood best friends that scream cried Cross My Heart when Mariana’s Trench rocked Bayfest. 🤣🫶

07/24/2025

There was always an expectation of greatness for me, and while I could easily understand how or why that could easily be crushing for some people. But for me, it simply wasn’t.

It’s funny because when I say I know I deserve to do great things, it’s never from a place of entitlement. Simply put, it’s just a fact to me.

All this to say- my whole life has been motivated by this fundamental truth. But especially this past month WHEW. When I say big, huge MOUNTAINS are have been being moved behind the scenes.

& while I’m not ready to drop the big surprise just quite yet I can say with all my heart that when I do… it may just be the greatest thing I’ve done so far. 🫶