I started my website, Speaking Up BC, focused on disability and schools, in July 2021. Speaking Up BC is my first website. I wrote over 200 blogs from July 2021-Dec 2025. At a time when I was so angry, all I wanted to do was scream from a mountain top. The fact that the school district was in liability cover up mode, put me into fight mode.
Speaking Up BC was born out of desperation.
Out of pure desperation for saving my sanity and soul, I started this website. I had no idea what was going to come of it. I just knew that I wanted to take all of the secret parts of education advocacy and expose them. To help other parents. To hopefully give them information and spare them learning things the hard way, so they can elevate what they need to do and get their kids’ support needs faster and be less traumatized by the path.
There are certain harsh realities of the education system that are actually pretty unbelievable. If I didn’t witness this stuff with my own eyes, I would have some doubts if someone else told me this.
However, my fight is now complete. I actually have felt physical withdrawal symptoms. The adrenaline and all of the other chemicals that put my body into fight mode are no longer needed. I feel like I am floating back to Earth with my feet on the ground. I am moving from being a wild fire triggered by a storm to more of a controlled burn.
I am still passionate about education equity. I still FEEL for all of the kids and parents/caregivers out there on a cellular level. But my rage is melting. My energy is becoming more strategic, focused and sustainable. Less reactive. Less wild. I understand how things work. I don’t like it. But, there is an awareness that resonates within me that doesn’t tear me apart anymore. It just informs me of what I need to do next. I am in the phase of being a lighthouse.
I have transferred the pages I want to keep onto my PATH website. That is my future. I love helping people. I look forward to sitting in front of all of the parents and students who contact me, providing them all of the information that I wish someone had told me.
I am not quite sure what I am going to do with my current blogs….I might make a digital book out of them and you can just download the book for free. I still haven’t figured it out yet, but all of the legal blogs for sure I am keeping available. Blogs in the future will be coming from my PATH website and will be focused on the written authority pieces of school advocacy. That includes external complaint systems information, orders, decisions, consent resolutions, policy changes, systemic change pieces, etc.
Speaking Up BC will be removed. I will only be managing and updating one website, not two.
Healing is a choice. It’s not an easy path. It’s one I am choosing to take. It’s time to move to the next stepping stone.
From wildfire to lighthouse.
