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Reina Starke
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You don't need someone else to confirm that
you're worthy or lovable or enough.
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Health & Wellness
Reina Starke is a Métis woman from Vancouver Island. She has a
background in Child and Youth Care, and is a self-esteem and confidence-
building facilitator focused on self-love and connection. She uses the
Medicine Wheel as a tool to guide most of her workshop activities and
exercises.
eina Starke is a Vancouver-based Métis woman
who hosts retreats and events for women
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collaborate and share. She also hosts workshops
through Connected North. "My passion is creating safe
spaces for women. That's really what I think my gift is,
being able to set up the stage for women to be able to
feel vulnerable."
With a degree in Child and Youth Care, Starke started
out doing family support work and working in housing
with younger moms and youth. After taking a break
from that work, she had her own kids and started
envisioning what she could do as an entrepreneur.
where they can gather, be themselves authentically,
She hosted self esteem workshops for girls that moms
would drop their kids off to attend. Those moms
longed for a space of their own, which evolved in
Starke's basement. Over time these events grew to
include dozens of women.
"It's been a slow progression but I would say divinely
guided. It's been perfect timing, even though it may
feel like a slow exhale and inhale. It feels like a very
natural unfolding," Starke muses. While she loves the
work she does, it can be heavy as everyone shares their
challenges and wounds in an intense experience as
Starke navigates her own difficulties....
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