I met my wife and we lived a good life filling our time with fun and social activities (snowboarding, Wakeboarding, travel). We were overjoyed when we found out my wife was pregnant. Then the wheels started to come off the happy bus. We took an opportunity to buy into a boardshop only to get into the partnership from hell. In the two years we were involved with the boardshop we had our daughter and our relationship struggled greatly because of the business stress. Getting away from the boardshop was a huge relief for us and we felt like we had a new beginning. Unfortunatly that new begining took a turn for the worse when we lent one of my best friends almost $50,000 and he killed himself shortly after, taking our money to the grave with him. We lost one of our best friends and our life savings all in one shot. All the while my wife was pregnant with our second child, our son. Not wanting to go back to working for someone else I started a landscape construction business with my father. The business has been doing well but money is always tight, and time with my family is always short. My relationship with my wife has suffered greatly over the hard years we have had and I am on tools to try and gain some prospective and get my priorities back in line.  

I grew up in a small city in southern B.C. I started smoking pot at a young age to escape from the stress at home due to my parents unstable relationship. Proceeded to get very good at drinking and consuming any other drugs I could get my hands on. I always told myself, my friends and family that I was going to be an artist. After bouncing around playing the starving artist for a number of years I fell back on a career in construction.

I would like to get my life back on track, enjoy the things that really matter. I want to improve (save) my relationship with my wife and build a better relationship with my kids. I would also like to find the time to get back to painting, drawing, snowboarding and traveling, all the things that are inspiring to me.