Nancy Regan Videos

“Open up my soul and let the sun shine in…”🎶 That’s a lyric from Bruce Guthro’s song Walk This Road, and it really landed for me as I was driving along the road on my way home from Cape Breton this morning…with a BG playlist turned up loud. ❤ It was raining, but it took me back to the magical glow of the Celtic Colours concert I got to host last night in Inverness. I don’t have onstage shots or video of the performers (‘cause none were allowed) but I do have this snippet of the backstage warmup before the show. (and I could’ve gone home happy after just that!) I will report that during the actual performance, the phenomenally talented Mary Frances Leahey practically lit the venue on fire with her fiddle - and her feet - while Natalie MacMaster shone in the role of Stage-Mom. In fact, the only time Natalie joined me on stage was to quickly hand me her cell phone so I could do an impromptu long-distance interview with the winner of the big draw (who had already returned to Alberta) 😂 Talk about resourceful! Sitting in the crowd, Natalie heard me call out the name and phone number from the ticket a couple of times (while we waited for a winner to present themselves) so she took it upon herself to dial him. 🤓 The other act of the night was 6 Hearts - an astounding amalgam of the powerhouse bands, The East Pointers and Vishten - formed after both groups suffered tragic losses. As their bio says, “four hearts converging in mesmerizing contemporary traditional music, strengthened by the two hearts that remain with them in spirit.” They were utterly enchanting. ✨ Next year, do yourself a favour and seriously consider making your way to Cape Breton for the Celtic Colours International Festival and…open up your soul and let the love shine in. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ PS. Because this FB page won't let me add videos & photos together in one post, I'll add some pictures in the comments section. (tricky, eh? :

Too often in this world, we honour accomplishment and neglect to celebrate humanity. I had the privilege this evening to attend an event at which both were on full display. Donna Morrissey was interviewed by her friend (& mine) Mary Lynk for an episode of Ideas on CBC Radio. They were talking about Donna's exciting new novel "Rage the Night" - a riveting work of fiction based on an historic Newfoundland tragedy. Donna started the evening by Showing UP fully, sharing with the audience the brutal decision she'd had to make about whether to go ahead with the evening. You see, Donna's husband Rick died just three weeks ago, and she had to choose whether to honour her role as "newly minted widow" or embrace the opportunity to mark the launch of her latest passion project. She did both - magnificently. At one point, Donna described some characters in her book as "strong, fierce, honourable, and true". All those adjectives describe her as well. Thanks Mary, for holding space so powerfully for a truly rich conversation, and thank you Donna for the gift of your pure presence and grace. ❤ #buythebook Penguin Books #newfoundlandandlabrador #booklover

Are you ready to be a WISH-MAKER ?! :)🎉🧚✨⭐️ Our roster is filling up fast, so this is a final call for teams (or individuals) to register now ! Women FORE Wishes is October 12, 2023 at the Chester Golf Club. Cost is $210 per person or $840 per team of four -and that fee can be fundraised or paid outright 🙂 After August 31st, there will be a waitlist for wish-makers, so ACT NOW !! and help us make WISHES COME TRUE ! ❤ To find out more, contact Tammy at [email protected] or pick up the phone and call this delightful human at 902-809-1313. If you can't make it to this fun event, you can still be a Wish-Maker by SHARING this post ! ❤

The ECMA festivities wrapped up today, and what an EPIC 35th anniversary celebration it was! I had the privilege of being treated to a slew of private performances because I spent two full days taping interviews for an ECMA Artist Spotlight series for Rogers TV. The episodes will air in the coming months, and I'll keep you posted! HUGE thanks to all the artists for SHOWING UP. 🙂 Here's just a taste of the talent being showcased... Hearts of Kin Gearl Robert Joseph FrancisFrancis Abby McCartney Owen O'Sound Lee @umbrellaboygram Adyn Townes @analuisaramosofficial City Natives Logan Richard Allen Snow & The Quorum Reggie Morales Jason Benoit #ECMA35 #ecma2023 #ECMA See less

When you work with people you love, it's not really work. Alyse Hand and I are co-hosting this event next week, but we're clearly already having fun! (be sure to watch until the blooper at the end! 😂) THE LADY BALL happily returns to the runway in Halifax on Thursday, May 11 at Pier 21. As always, it will include top notch entertainment, a fashion show featuring local "role-models" dressed in local designs, a brilliant line-up of auction items to bid on, special guests and so much more. Most importantly though...this is a major fundraiser for Ovarian Cancer Canada to support those living with ovarian cancer today, and the 3000 Canadians who will be diagnosed this year. Tickets are selling out fast, get them while you can: http://noca.convio.net/site/Calendar?id=101523&view=Detail&s_locale=en_CA&fbclid=IwAR1E_ziZcjXUUUmTSYOvkfy73vHadWzxZhlUHrueeplM4U7V6I4DMq3KT_s Hope to see you there! ❤️ Please consider sharing this promo…and TAG a friend who needs to know about it! 🤓 #ovariancancer #ovariancancerawareness #ovariancancermonth

SHE is loved by fans all over the world, but HE loved her first! Tune in this week’s episode of the Canadian Love Map podcast to hear Mary Janet MacDonald & Cecil MacDonald’s epic and old-fashioned love story. It’s a conversation full of fun, laughter, and love. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Listen anywhere, but here’s the Apple link to make it easy! 🙂 https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/canadian-love-map/id1533294517?i=1000602440792 Tunes and Wooden Spoons #lovestory #CharmDiamond #podcast

“12 Days: The Belated Conclusion” 🤓 DAY 12- Festive Freedom I love the holidays (holidaze) but as a high-strung human, I can be prone to overwhelm in the festive season. This is a pattern I’ve been working on for almost a decade; learning to catch my fluster as it arises…and calmly breathing it away! Inherent in this practice is giving myself permission to be imperfect! This - along with my mild case of laryngitis and a hockey injury incurred by my 18 year old husband (okay, he only THINKS he’s 18 😂) - derailed my 12 Day series of excerpts. And ya know what…? I’m proud to say I ALLOWED it to. But it was important to me to finish the project…partly to thank YOU for coming along for the ride! #staytuned So, here's the question: How are you going to show yourself more compassion in 2023…?! ❤️❤️❤️ From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and from Nimbus.ca. 🎉 For those in the US, the release date is early in 2023. And that’s true for the audio version of the book as well! #imshowingup #showingup #bookclub #bookstagram #books #love #selfacceptance #selfcompassion #authenticity #meditation #vitaminsea #breathe Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press #FestiveSeason

“12 Days of Why You Should Consider Giving My Book as a Gift for Christmas”...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) 🤓. DAY 11 - Nearly Silent NightThis “excerpt” is actually a quick (and quiet 😂) explanation of my book title. Please tell me if you can relate. From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and from Nimbus.ca. 🎉For those in the US, the release date is early in 2023. And that’s true for the audio version of the book as well! #imshowingup #showingup #bookclub #bookstagram #books #love #selfacceptance #selfcompassion #authenticity #meditation #breathe Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press

“12 Days of Why You Should Consider Giving My Book as a Gift for Christmas”...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) 🤓 DAY 10 - Vitamin Sea I’m doing a little something different with this excerpt - partly because my evening went off the rails when a family member landed in the ER with a dislocated shoulder. All is well now…but I figured this might be an appropriate time for a mini meditation. This little poem is in my book, and comes straight from my heart. Peace everybody. ❤️ #serenitynow From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and from Nimbus.ca. 🎉 For those in the US, the release date is early in 2023. And that’s true for the audio version of the book as well! #imshowingup #showingup #bookclub #bookstagram #books #love #selfacceptance #selfcompassion #authenticity #meditation #vitaminsea #breathe

“12 Days of Why You Should Consider Giving My Book as a Gift for Christmas”...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) 🤓 DAY 9 - Wayne Dyer I was fortunate to have worked with Wayne Dyer on his Eastern Canadian tour just a few months before his untimely death. He made a big impression on me (as I explain in my book) but this is just a snippet of a story that he told on stage… The holiday season tends to “squeeze” a lot of us - particularly perfectionists. I used to fall into this trap every Christmas…but the practice of presence saved me from myself! 🤓 (hence my subtitle: “An Impostor’s Journey from Perfect to Present“) ❤️ From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and from Nimbus.ca. 🎉 For those in the US, the release date is early in 2023. And that’s true for the audio version of the book as well! #imshowingup #showingup #bookclub #bookstagram #books #love #selfacceptance #selfcompassion #Oprah #oprahwinfrey #oprahinterview #authenticity Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press #waynedyer #IAM

“12 Days of Why You Should Consider Giving My Book as a Gift for Christmas”...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) 🤓 DAY 8 - From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and from Nimbus.ca. 🎉For those in the US, the release date is early in 2023. And that’s true for the audio version of the book as well! #imshowingup #showingup #bookclub #bookstagram #books #love #selfacceptance #selfcompassion #authenticity Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press

“12 Days of Why You Should Consider Giving My Book as a Gift for Christmas”...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) 🤓 DAY 7 - Upstaged by one of my dogs - who SHOWED UP and insisted on being included. LOL From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and from Nimbus.ca. 🎉 For those in the US, the release date is early in 2023. And that’s true for the audio version of the book as well! #imshowingup #showingup #bookclub #bookstagram #books #love #selfacceptance #selfcompassion #authenticity Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press

“12 Days of Why You Should Consider Giving My Book as a Gift for Christmas”...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) 🤓 DAY 6 - Short and sweet (or at least heartfelt!) in my cozies on a stormy night. No makeup, no hair-do, no filter. Just Showing UP. This is another of my poems that I included in the book, and there’s a beautiful story about it. A reader (who I don’t know) reached out through FB Messenger to share with me a photo of a tattoo she had just gotten. It was a simple star, and it was inspired by her response to this simple poem. As you can imagine, I was deeply touched… These are the sorts of connections I’ve been privileged enough to experience through this book journey. Here’s to unconditional love…! ❤️ From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and from Nimbus.ca. 🎉 For those in the US, the release date is early in 2023. And that’s true for the audio version of the book as well! #imshowingup #showingup #bookstagram #books #unconditionallove #love #poetry #perfectionism Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press #impostersyndrome

This poem was inspired by a brilliant woman by the name of Dr. Edith Eva Eger. She is a Holocaust survivor who became a psychologist after she escaped from Auschwitz. In her book The Choice, she talks about the fact that the opposite of depression is not happiness; the opposite of depression is expression. As she says “What comes out of us doesn’t make us sick; what stays in does.” When we are babies and toddlers, we express ourselves freely…but then the world turns down our light by telling us “Behave, be good, be quiet”. We’re rarely told “Just BE. Be everything you are.” From Showing Off to Showing UP is available at local bookstores (either on the shelf or by order), at Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, or Nimbus.ca. For those in the US, the book comes out in early 2023, as does the audio book! #imshowingup #showingup #books #depressionawareness #depression #expressyourself

“12 Days of Why You Should Consider Giving My Book as a Gift for Christmas”...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) DAY 4 - in the dark, for a reason. This is a highly imperfect video, but I felt like I needed to post the first take. Take care of yourself. ❤️❤️❤️ (And be sure to watch “I Had A Black Dog” on You tube. You or someone you love will benefit from it.💙 From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and from Nimbus.ca. 🎉 For those in the US, the release date is early in 2023. And that’s true for the audio version of the book as well! #imshowingup #showingup #bookstagram #books #depressionawareness #depression #perfectionism Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press #impostersyndrome

“12 Days of Why You Should Consider Giving My Book as a Gift for Christmas”...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) 🤓 I'll be posting excerpts every day until the 23rd. This is the third one - done LATE in the day…and I decided to try out a teleprompter app. Please let me know if anything in this passage resonates with you. What I’ve discovered through feedback from people who’ve read my story is that -basically- we’re all in this together! From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Chapters.ca, and from Nimbus.ca. And…the good news I got today is that Amazon.ca is restocked and can deliver before Christmas!🎉 For those in the US, the release date is early in 2023. And that’s true for the audio version of the book as well! Thanks for humouring me. 🤓 Stay tuned for more! ❤️ #imshowingup #showingup #bookstagram #books #procrastination #perfectionism #impostorsyndrome Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press

“12 Days of Why You Should Consider Giving My Book as a Gift for Christmas”...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) 🤓 I'll be posting excerpts every day until the 23rd. This is the second one - from my introduction. Stay tuned for more! ❤️ From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Chapters.ca, or from Nimbus.ca (Amazon is sold out right now -though you can buy the kindle version there) #imshowingup #showingup

12 Days of Why You Should Give My Book as a Gift for Christmas...(or any holiday you might be celebrating!) 🤓 I'll be posting excerpts every day until the 23rd. This first one was recorded when I was working on my Audio book (which comes out early in 2023) Hope you enjoy it! ❤️❤️❤️ From Showing Off to Showing UP is available in local bookstores, from Chapters.ca, or from Nimbus.ca (Amazon is sold out right now!) #imshowingup #showingup

Happy 104 years of JOY! This is my birthday present to the most amazing human I know…reminding you of HER favourite cause! Please feel free to leave a message (including photo or video!) for Joy Saunders in the Comments section below. I’ll make sure she sees them all. ❤️ Victorian Order of Nurses - VON VON Greater Halifax VON Lunenburg County #centenarians #strongwomen #StrongerTogether #imshowingup