{"id":4713,"date":"2022-03-15T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T17:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluedoor.ca\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2023-08-03T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:05:44","slug":"frustration-and-anxiety-threatened-to-eat-me-alive-newmarket-women-share-grief-humour-resiliency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluedoor.ca\/frustration-and-anxiety-threatened-to-eat-me-alive-newmarket-women-share-grief-humour-resiliency\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Frustration and anxiety threatened to eat me alive’: Newmarket women share grief, humour, resiliency"},"content":{"rendered":"
March 15th, 2022. By: Lisa Queen, thestar.com, Original Article.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Tough times don\u2019t last but tough teams do’ is vision of Blue Door winner of Women of Excellence award<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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From the resilience of forging a meaningful life following the death of a spouse, to the highs and lows of keeping a new business going during the COVID-19 pandemic while dealing with struggles of infertility, to the announcement of this year\u2019s winner of the Women of Excellence award, Newmarket\u2019s NewRoads Performing Arts Centre was the venue of stories of strong local women this month.<\/p>\n

The Newmarket Chamber of Commerce held its annual Celebration of Women at the theatre March 9, as part of the observance of International Women\u2019s Day the day before.<\/p>\n

Emmy Kelly, the chief operating officer of Blue Door Shelters, the largest provider of emergency housing in York Region, was the winner of the 2022 Women of Excellence award, sponsored by the NewRoads Automotive Group.<\/p>\n

Kelly, who accepted the award in a pre-recorded video, was recognized for vastly expanding the organization\u2019s programming and services and for developing a trades-based employment social enterprise called Construct.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the peak of the pandemic, Emmy helped plan, launch and operationalize a merger between Blue Door and Mosaic Interfaith Out of the Cold, the upcoming opening of Blue Door\u2019s new Health Hub and three supportive housing programs called Abode, Forward and INNclusion,\u201d an event statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe supportive housing programs are the first of their kind in York Region, offering population-specific support for three highly vulnerable and underserviced populations, including senior men, families and 2SLGBTQ+ youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s vision is \u201ctough times don\u2019t last but tough teams do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Before the award was announced, the audience heard guest speakers Julie Cryns, a grief coach and end-of-life doula, and Shabi Monzavi, founder and CEO of Market Candle Company, who shared her company\u2019s beginnings and her treatments for infertility.<\/p>\n

Cryns spoke of husband Mark\u2019s diagnosis of leukemia in 2006 and gruelling treatments before his death in 2011.<\/p>\n

During his illness, Cryns focused on her husband while also caring for their two young children.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy frustration and anxiety threatened to eat me alive,\u201d she said, saying she searched for something good to come out of the painful experience.<\/p>\n

She and Mark created the Mad Hatter\u2019s Walk for leukemia research, an annual Newmarket event launched in 2007 that would go on to raise $120,000 over three years.<\/p>\n

Following Mark\u2019s death and the death of her father 14 months later, Cryns would later become a volunteer at Newmarket\u2019s Margaret Bahen Hospice and then a grief coach and end-of-life doula to help others dealing with the loss of a loved one.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are surrounded by loss,\u201d said Cryns, who married her second husband, also named Mark, eight years after Mark died.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt any given moment, there will be someone in your life who is struggling with loss. It\u2019s part of life and it does not discriminate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worthy of a standup comedy routine, Monzavi spoke of her ongoing attempts to settle on a career and her unsatisfying time in the corporate world before she launched Market Candle Company in May 2019 from her home.<\/p>\n

Throughout the pandemic, she grew her business and now has a store at 1100 Gorham St.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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