Episodes

  • Forced Commitals with Barbara Phillips

    Forced Commitals with Barbara Phillips
    May 21 2024
    Forced Committals with Barbara Phillips

    Barbara has had several forced commitals and a long history of taking psychiatric meds. She opens up with Bernadine about those commitals what worked, what didn't, what left lasting scars and physical impairments.
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    1 hr
  • The Correlation between Weight and Child Sexual Abuse with Patty Cabot

    The Correlation between Weight and Child Sexual Abuse with Patty Cabot
    Feb 6 2024
    The Correlation between Weight and Child Sexual Abuse with Patty Cabot

    Patty Cabot joins us to talk about her experience of weight loss via coming to terms with the sexual abuse in her childhood. She is the author of "Not That Girl".

    Music by DG Adams, Robbie Robertson, Meaghan Trainer, and Shari Ulrich
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    1 hr
  • Coping with Grief during the Holidays and Anniversaries

    Coping with Grief during the Holidays and Anniversaries
    Jan 24 2024
    Coping with Grief during the Holidays and Anniversaries

    Jennifer O’Brien is grief-experienced. What does that mean? For starters, she has experienced several of her immediate family, including parents, siblings, and husband dying. In working through her grief she created a journal. That journal was published: The Hospice Drs Widow and won numerous prestigious awards. She speaks with Bernadine about grief. Especially grief around holidays and anniversary dates. And she shares what her tools for getting through those dates.

    Music by David Laronde, Edith Wallace, and Shari Ulrich
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    1 hr
  • Gifts of Madness, David Granirer and Katharine Giovanni

    Gifts of Madness, David Granirer and Katharine Giovanni
    Jan 17 2024
    Gifts of Madness with Kagan Goh, Stand Up for Mental Health with David Granirer, and Forgiveness with Katharine Giovanni

    Today’s program includes interviews with Kagan Goh about a multi-media exhibition he is curating called the Gifts of Madness. As the Penticton Art Gallery states, "Gifts of Madness" is an upcoming mental-health themed exhibition at the gallery run by Ignite the Arts, part of a powerful collaboration with Tempest Theatre & Film Society, Voices with Impact, Connection Salon, Gallery Cachet, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver and Workman Arts' "Rendezvous with Madness" Festival. The exhibit's goal is to celebrate "Mad Pride," a movement that embraces the challenges and experiences of mental health and its multifaceted natures, from negative to positive.

    David Granirer talks about his upcoming performance at the Lightness of Being on Jan 24th and his program Stand Up For Mental Health™ gives programs and classes throughout North America and Australia, everywhere but the Vancouver, B.C. area. And as he says “Our shows look at the stand up comedy side of mental health, mental illness, recovery, and surviving the mental health system.”

    Katharine Giovanni talks about her new book, “The Ultimate Path to Forgiveness: Unlocking Your Power “ giving us insight into the process of forgiveness and why it might be important for some of us to look at it.
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    1 hr
  • Haida Storytelling with Giihlgiigaa

    Haida Storytelling with Giihlgiigaa
    Jan 2 2024
    Haida Storytelling with Giihlgiigaa.

    Todd DeVries, Giihlgiigaa, invites us in to hear about indigenous storytelling: how and where it is told, how it is learned and passed on, and its importance in the Haida culture. He tells us about the Raven, in the beginning and gives us a Haida Prayer. He explains the Haida concept of time and the seven time periods that are referenced that reach from the present time to the past that goes back thousands upon thousands of years.
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    1 hr
  • Consent: Its Misuse as a Weapon and a Shield in Therapy Abuse

    Consent: Its Misuse as a Weapon and a Shield in Therapy Abuse
    Dec 19 2023
    Consent: Its Misuse as a Weapon and a Shield in Therapy Abuse

    TRIGGER WARNING: Talk about Therapy Abuse, Sexual assault, and what is consent. Some of this material may be very difficult and we ask that you do what you need to take care of yourself in this hours.

    RTM discusses consent between adults around therapy abuse where and, in particular, when is a “yes” not a “yes”? It feels like we just got it settled that “no means no”. In this program we ask that you to stretch your cognitive thinking to consider when a yes is not a yes. It may seem too much to ask – but it will make sense by the end of this program why it is important for us to do this. We also discuss BCs new Health Professional and Occupation act regulating our Drs and other health professionals and it’s last revision which seems to provide some protection for victims of therapy abuse but still is questionable along with the problems that can occur with the 2-3 year interval between termination and initiating an intimate relationship with a former client that has been adopted by several association and societies offering professional memberships to therapists.
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    1 hr
  • Rape Culture and the Long Road to Healing with Lenny Gagnon

    Rape Culture and the Long Road to Healing with Lenny Gagnon
    Dec 12 2023
    Rape Culture and the Long Road to Healing

    Trigger Warning: This hour includes descriptions of sexual assault, rape, and victim-blaming.

    Lenny Gagnon’s whole world turned up-side-down when her father died in a mill accident when she was 6 years old. At 7 she was groomed and then sexually assaulted by the neighborhood pedophile. And she was raped again at 15. When she reported the last one, the cop who interviewed her also assaulted her. At the hearing, she was grilled and shredded about her character (swearing and sexual history [ie rape]) and based on that the judge refused to go ahead with charging her rapist because he didn’t believe she was of chaste character. Second wave feminists had yet to fight to ensure that victims of sexual assault were treated with care and dignity at police stations and in courtrooms. The trauma Lenny experienced caused depression which ultimately led to her being given anti-depressants and then eventually one that caused her to experience mania. Because of the mania, she was put on neuroleptics or anti-psychotics which caused other debilitating side effects. After decades of being on these medications she finally found a psychiatrist who would wean her off these drugs and help her as she transitioned to CBD oil with THC. Today, Lenny is healthy, living her best life with her loving partner Tom. Lenny is a story of survival and victory.

    Music by Shari Ulrich and Lyndsey Ell
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    1 hr
  • 988 Forced Committals and Suicide Assessment Toola

    988 Forced Committals and Suicide Assessment Toola
    Dec 6 2023
    988, Forced Committals, and Suicide assessments

    With the new 988 suicide hotline being launched, Rob Wipond cautions us on some of the pitfalls that can occur with traumatizing impacts on people. Barbara Phillips talks with us about her experience of being forceably committed and then Bernadine Fox walks us through the usual type of Suicide Assessment Questions that mental health professionals and crisis lines use to assess whether or not someone is suicidal and in need to being detained.

    Music by Shari Ulrich
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    54 mins