That has a multi-layered answer. To start, when I was retiring, I wasn't ready to retire. I did not want to be out of the forces, but I was being released. I didn't have a choice.
In 2018, my spouse and I purchased a farm in a little hamlet in Nova Scotia called Sweets Corner. I don't know why we purchased it, but we did, and I knew it needed to be a space for healing. You can't describe the feeling of connecting with nature and the healing properties of feeling the earth.
I may not be an officer at the highest ranks, nor have I served in the RCMP, but I work day in and day out with women who have been traumatized and with families facing crises who are one problem away from becoming homeless or going hungry.
The Veteran Farm Project has been incredibly successful. We have managed to find a missing part in our community of Nova Scotia, and we feel we are filling that now. This program has been going on for seven years, and we don't see ourselves stopping anytime soon.