{"id":47653,"date":"2025-01-23T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkinson.ca\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=47653"},"modified":"2025-02-12T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:35:14","slug":"caroline-thornton","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/profile\/caroline-thornton\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Caroline was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s in 2021 when she and her husband were living out their dream of owning an equine facility dedicated to breeding and raising racehorses in rural Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before her time as a horse breeder, she spent 20 years leading a company specializing in facilitation. She has experience working with people from all walks of life and all levels of business, organization, and levels of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caroline is most interested in assisting with communications and advocacy through her role as a PAC member. She feels passionate about helping the Parkinson\u2019s community discover ways to replenish, rejuvenate, and heal the soul. For Caroline, a sense of recovery comes when she explores the outdoors with her horse. She hopes to help others discover their own sources of spiritual replenishment through their own individual means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through her work with the Syrian Women\u2019s Network, and the Newcomers Network, Caroline has learned that barriers often impact how people can adjust and settle into new life circumstances. In this, she finds countless similarities and learnings between people coming into a new culture and people learning to manage a chronic disease. Caroline\u2019s perspective will help Parkinson Canada\u2019s EDIJ initiative as it will help to identify barriers and lead to strategizing to alleviate them through our advocacy efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer is-style-responsive-xsmall\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer is-style-responsive-xsmall\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Caroline a \u00e9t\u00e9 diagnostiqu\u00e9e avec la maladie de Parkinson en 2021, alors qu&rsquo;elle et son mari r\u00e9alisaient leur r\u00eave de poss\u00e9der un centre \u00e9questre d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 la reproduction et \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9levage de chevaux de course dans l&rsquo;Ontario rural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avant d&rsquo;\u00eatre \u00e9leveuse de chevaux, elle a pass\u00e9 20 ans \u00e0 la t\u00eate d&rsquo;une entreprise sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9e dans la facilitation. Elle a acquis de l&rsquo;exp\u00e9rience en travaillant avec des personnes de tous les horizons et de tous les niveaux d&rsquo;entreprise, d&rsquo;organisation et de gouvernement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caroline est particuli\u00e8rement int\u00e9ress\u00e9e par l&rsquo;aide \u00e0 la communication et \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans le cadre de son r\u00f4le de membre du CCP. Elle se passionne pour aider la communaut\u00e9 de la maladie de Parkinson \u00e0 d\u00e9couvrir des moyens de se ressourcer, de rajeunir et de gu\u00e9rir l&rsquo;\u00e2me. Pour Caroline, un sentiment de gu\u00e9rison se manifeste lorsqu&rsquo;elle explore la nature avec son cheval. Elle esp\u00e8re aider les autres \u00e0 d\u00e9couvrir leurs propres sources de ressourcement spirituel par leurs propres moyens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 son travail avec le r\u00e9seau des femmes syriennes et le r\u00e9seau des nouveaux arrivants, Caroline a appris que les barri\u00e8res ont souvent un impact sur la fa\u00e7on dont les gens s&rsquo;adaptent et s&rsquo;installent dans de nouvelles circonstances de vie. Elle trouve ainsi d&rsquo;innombrables similitudes et enseignements entre les personnes qui s&rsquo;int\u00e8grent dans une nouvelle culture et celles qui apprennent \u00e0 g\u00e9rer une maladie chronique. Le point de vue de Caroline sera utile \u00e0 l&rsquo;initiative EDIJ de Parkinson Canada, car il permettra d&rsquo;identifier les obstacles et d&rsquo;\u00e9laborer des strat\u00e9gies pour les att\u00e9nuer dans le cadre de nos efforts de d\u00e9fense des int\u00e9r\u00eats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"template":"","class_list":["post-47653","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/47653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/47653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48727,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/47653\/revisions\/48727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}