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Helena Kaufman actively shares secrets of messaging that sells, persuades, influences and connects people in person, online and in text.

Can Routine Bolster Our Productivity and Boost Our Mood?

January 29, 2023 By Helena Kaufman

Effect small but successful changes through routines to add productivity and to boost your mood daily

"Seek community and routine." This is the calm counsel I got during some challenging times after I moved, alone, to my current stomping grounds - Vancouver, Canada. That advice came from a military member. He was expected to move as seamlessly as possible every few years into a new physical and … [Read more...]

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Father’s Day Happy and Fraught

June 19, 2022 By Helena Kaufman

It's an odd time for me to start my year of 'reactive blogging'. On Father's Day of all moments. Daily, I am triggered to memory lane. It happens with the news, my own mind, social media posts, and random sights and sounds. Finally, I begin to write about any and all triggers that assail me without … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Father's Day, memoirs of a writer, triggered memories

Go for the whole magilla on Purim & listen to the “Megilla” aka Book of Esther

March 14, 2022 By Helena Kaufman

Mmmm cookies for Purim called Hamentaschen

Iran, Jews and deadly decrees are commemorated in an upbeat way this week. Coming early at us in this Jewish Year of 5782, Purim arrives the night of March 16 and lasts with laughter and celebration well into March 17. Even as tensions continue in the Middle East and are heightened now with what … [Read more...]

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Contact lens use in the time of COVID-Part 3 of 3 on eye care

March 22, 2021 By Helena Kaufman

On behalf of contact lens wearers, I had one final question for my Vancouver-based optometrist, Dr. Janey Yee. I do not wear contacts myself.  I've given birth, considered the challenge of walking on coals, and did successfully certify as a scuba diver. Putting a little disc into my eye area, … [Read more...]

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When you can’t escape the blue light -Part 2 of 3 on eye care – the Boost Zone edition

March 19, 2021 By Helena Kaufman

Finally, we can see light at the end of the tunnel out of our COVID-created caves. Restrictions are being lifted in British Columbia. Vaccines are en route. We can look forward - that is if we can see past the blue light emanating from our ubiquitous screens. After months in front of my work, my … [Read more...]

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Vancouver optometrist’s top eye care tips for our continuously connected selves – Part I

March 17, 2021 By Helena Kaufman

Care of our eyes and preservation of our sight is essential if we wish to live and work well in our current tech-connected world. Plus, our year in the safety of our COVID caves, called on our eyes to perform to the max as we all huddled around any number of blue light-emitting screens. Combined, … [Read more...]

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Mouthing Holiday Greetings from Behind Your Mask Hesitatingly? Tis The Season!

December 12, 2020 By Helena Kaufman

Nutcracker Soldiers stand up for holiday greetings

  Happy Holidays. Happy Hanukkah, however you spell it. Merry Christmas although my older British friends prefer Happy Christmas. How do I best greet a Kwanzaa celebrant??  I think I got the season's first festival of lights right, Diwali, or is it Deepavali?  Solstice anyone??  Oy vey. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: happy holiday greetings, season's greetings, sensitive in the season

Simply start now whether you count up, count down or count on a better year

December 2, 2020 By Helena Kaufman

This isn't a blog about resolutions, or grand visions or a post on lists of lists. It's a start. That's the best you can do on any intention or mission. It's a conversation with myself and I'm sharing, But hey, YOU might find practical tips embedded in the posts. After all, I am a writer by … [Read more...]

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Coming out of our COVID created caves-healthier-chat with a chiropractor

June 23, 2020 By Helena Kaufman

Coming out of our Covid created caves means movement and attention to posture

I sat a bit higher in my office chair and felt a flow of energy for a better business day as I spoke with Vancouver chiropractor, Dr. Matt Nelson. In the early weeks of the pandemic when we were asked to shelter in place, in-office visits to our daily healthcare providers stopped. Collectively, we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Caring for yourself while sheltering in place in your Covid created cave, Covid time self care, Posture

Today I budge from Before COVID19 (BCV) to Post COVID19 (PCV)

April 11, 2020 By Helena Kaufman

April 11 seems to be the day. I didn't pick it or plan for it. Today is the day my life moved from BCV (Before Covid19) to beginning to piece together my PCV  (Post Covid19) future forward self. But first a moment on what budged me, at last. … [Read more...]

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ABOUT ME

Vancouver-based storyteller Helena Kaufman helps professionals, entrepreneurs and companies discover the narratives that make them memorable. An award-winning communicator with over 25 years experience, Helena uses her writing and marketing skills to plan, produce and promote her clients’ projects.
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  • Can Routine Bolster Our Productivity and Boost Our Mood?
  • Father’s Day Happy and Fraught
  • Go for the whole magilla on Purim & listen to the “Megilla” aka Book of Esther
  • Contact lens use in the time of COVID-Part 3 of 3 on eye care
  • When you can’t escape the blue light -Part 2 of 3 on eye care – the Boost Zone edition
  • Vancouver optometrist’s top eye care tips for our continuously connected selves – Part I
  • Mouthing Holiday Greetings from Behind Your Mask Hesitatingly? Tis The Season!

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