Thank you for visiting my blog.  I hope you find my musings interesting if not perhaps a bit insightful!

My name is Drea Wonnacott, although in another time and place, my name was Andrea Cullen. I mention this only because our lives are full of transformations, some big, some small, some very public, others more private.  A name change, a new address or perhaps a new career. Some transformations are easy, others hard, while some seem to slip by almost imperceptibly. For many reasons, I’ve decided to make this latest transformation as public as possible. In fact, the further into this transformation I find myself, the more public I feel its meant to be! But before I head too far down that path, let me tell you a bit about myself.  

I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada near the North Saskatchewan River. I feel blessed and deeply grateful to find myself living so near such a constant source of peace and inspiration. My immediate family is two beautiful children, an amazing husband and an ever loving dog. I am a recovering public servant who, at times misses the perceived importance I felt while working for the provincial government, but on my more enlightened days know I am still in fact a public servant just moved to serve in a new and different way.  

In October 2014 my life and that of my family was forever changed.  I was diagnosed with breast cancer.  I tell  you this not because my blog will focus on cancer survival tips and resources, although some of that information will be available, but so you know what triggered my transformation.  Cancer is not the end of me.  Cancer was my new beginning.  I am transforming through cancer.  In fact most days, cancer is the furtherest thing from my mind and I know in the not too distant future cancer will be nothing more than the catalyst that triggered my all too necessary re-boot.

Again, I thank you for finding your way here.  I look forward to sharing my thoughts on a transformative life with you and I encourage you to contact me with whatever, whenever – as long as it comes from a curious mind.

In love,

Drea