Best ReThreading Madness Radio Podcasts (2025)

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Mad Pride Art Café 2025 with Richard Lett, CR Avery, and Lea Taranto 1:00:00

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Mad Pride Art Café 2025 with Richard Lett, CR Avery, and Lea Taranto Trigger Warning: some of the language used in creative material may be offensive to some people. These three artists performed live at the Mad Pride Art Café at the Gathering Place in downtown Vancouver, BC. Richard brought his particular form of comedy and spoken word. CR perform…

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Living Your Truth w Tavares and Bernadine 36:12

1M ago36:12

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By Bernadine Fox

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Building Self-Worth with Tavares Garrett 1:00:01

2M ago1:00:01

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Building Self-Worth with Tavares Garrett Tavares A. Garrett CNC, CPT, BCS is a “Health & Transformation Educator, Motivational Speaker, Mentor, Author, Servant Leader, Energy Giver/Healer, Podcast and TV Host. He's certified by NASM (National Academy Of Sports Medicine) and is the owner of The Body Synthesis.” As you listen you will recognize that …

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Raising Drug-Resistant Kids with Elisa Fortes Christiansen 1:00:40

2M ago1:00:40

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Raising Drug Resistant Kids with Elisa Fortise Christiansen Elisa Fortise Christensen joins RTM to discuss her 30-year history of addiction with prescription drugs which she developed after a back injury. She has been clean for many years but that addiction spurred her on to examine how to protect her kids from the same fate. Elisa is an American a…

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Judy and I on Dissociative Identities 1:00:01

2M ago1:00:01

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Judy and I on Dissociative Identities This program comes out of seeing one more untrained therapist postulate that folks with dissociative identities (formerly known as multiple personalities) are rare and dysfunctional or simply do not exist. Judy and I are here to push back against this assumption that couldn’t be farther from the truth. If you a…

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ADHD, PTSD, and Autism with Randi-Lee Bowslaugh 1:00:01

3M ago1:00:01

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ADHD, PTSD, and Autism with Randi-Lee Bowslaugh Randi-Lee Bowslaugh is a fellow warrior out there around the issue of mental health awareness fighting the inappropriate stigma we face as folks who live with mental health challenges. Randi-Lee is an author and outspoken advocate for mental health. She has lived with depression from the age of 14 yea…

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Connection Salon & Gathering Place, Crisis Centre of BC & Kagan Goh 1:00:00

3M ago1:00:00

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Connection Salon & Gathering Place, Crisis Centre of BC & Kagan Goh In today’s program we speak with Pierre Leichner from the Connection Salon here in Vancouver BC and Carrie Campbell from the Gathering Place about their collaboration to ensure that art comes to those who live with mental health challenges. We also speak with Mark Sheehan, Program …

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What does Mental Health, Psychiatry, and the Ouija Board have in Common? 1:00:01

3M ago1:00:01

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What does Mental Health, Psychiatry, and the Ouija Board have in Common? Dan Nelson, is the author of Ouija Board and the Skeptic (Mad In America) and holds a BA in Philosophy, MA in Human Resources and Industrial Relations. Through twenty years of working in management systems, he knows that systems are designed to output a particular product or s…

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Spotting a Coaching Scam with youtube creator Danielle Ryan 1:00:11

3M ago1:00:11

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Spotting a Coaching Scam with youtube creator Danielle Ryan Danielle Ryan describes herself as a youtube channel creator and “just a troll on the internet covering topics related to the business & life coaching industry.” As she says, part of the problem is lack of regulation and then what happens when coaches coaches to become coaches. She spends …

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How Past Lives and Spiritual Experiences Impact our Mental Health with Kerie Logan 1:00:01

4M ago1:00:01

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How Past Lives and Spiritual Experiences Impact our Mental Health with Kerie Logan While there doesn’t seem to be any scientific consensus of past lives, the correlation between them, present-day conflicts, and/or emotional baggage is significant. And the anecdotal stories include resolving problematic patterns that one has around behaviors, phobia…

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With Matt Sandoval from FreeArts AZ and Kagan Goh producer/director of Common Law 1:03:52

4M ago1:03:52

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With Matt Sandoval from FreeArts AZ and Kagan Goh producer/director of Common Law Matt Sandoval, is the new Executive Director for FreeArts in Arizona. FreeArts AZ provides traumatized children and their families with a means of creative expression and as means of establishing resilience and offering mentorship. And Kagan Goh talks with ReThreading…

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I "Married" My Therapist: Ken Schultz talks about the damage he suffered 1:00:00

4M ago1:00:00

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Trigger Warnng: This episode includes information about therapy abuse and may be triggering for some folks. I Married my Therapist: Ken Schultz is an advocate for mental health reform and a survivor of therapy abuse and exploitation. He is using his personal experience of harm to raise awareness about unethical therapeutic relationships and their l…

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It's a New Year 1:00:01

5M ago1:00:01

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It’s a New Year Today’s program is a slightly different structure. As we walk into the next year, several people came to share their hopes for themselves, their family and friends - with all of you. It is an uplifting show that demonstrates the amount of care and generosity that exists all around us. The program is our personal thank you to all who…

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Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackman 1:00:01

5M ago1:00:01

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Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackman Matthew Jackman has an intense conversation with Bernadine about the importance of the recognizing the immense value of those with lived experience as we examine mental health challenges. Matthew Jackman is a mental health advocate promoting human rights, so…

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Getting Over the Wrong Relationship with Sean Bridges 1:00:01

6M ago1:00:01

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Sean Bridges, award-winning screenwriter and author, had never been married until at the age of 55, he found, what he described as, the love of his life. He was about to be married. He was her fourth husband (to-be). Then something in his gut started shaking him awake to the realization that his life and his own personage had morphed into something…

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A Conversation on grief... that morphs into one about death 1:00:01

6M ago1:00:01

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A Chat about Grief… that Morphs into one about Death Rebecca Coleman joins Bernadine to chat about grief. Layers of grief the represent what she is experiencing currently in her life. However, as these things go, one conversation morphs into another and by the end of this program they are looking at the issue of death: facing it, planning for it. I…

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Theatre for Living with David Diamond 1:00:01

7M ago1:00:01

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Theatre for Living with David Diamond David Diamond joins Bernadine on ReThreading Madness to discuss his Theatre for Living Workshops. TFL, as the website states, is about empowerment. Taking the living organism, which is a community, and providing a platform for its expression to create “creative, community-based dialogue.” It sounds esoteric unt…

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Post Traumatic Growth with Joanne R. Green 1:00:01

7M ago1:00:01

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Post Traumatic Growth: Joanne Green Style Joanne R. Green joins Bernadine on ReThreading Madness to talk about what inspired her book: By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go. Joanne shares her journey through a variety of personal losses: mom, sister, father, brother and struggles like anorexia and cancer. In the midst of all that it was a car sliding…

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Tools for Change and Employing Forgiveness 1:00:01

8M ago1:00:01

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Tools for Change and Employing Forgiveness Rhonda Parker Taylor talks about how she learned how to support herself and cultivate meaning in the relationship she had with herself after the murder of her son. In that she used writing as a tool for change. Rhonda tells us about her journey and her fictional book Crossroads and her workbook coming out …

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Art and Peer Support at the Coast Mental Health Resource Centre 1:00:01

8M ago1:00:01

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Art and Peer Support at the Coast Mental Health Resource Centre. Bernadine heads down to Coast Mental Health Resource Centre on Seymour St in downtown Vancouver and speaks with folks about the Art Studio which is open to anyone with a mental health challenge. Betty Yan tells us about the Peer SupportTraining Program that Coast Mental Health has dev…

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Pathologizing Trauma 1:00:01

9M ago1:00:01

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Pathologizing Trauma Trigger Warning: Description of sexual assaults. Andrea takes us on a journey through what her childhood, in the 60s and 70s, was like coping with sexual assaults from several males around her from a very young age both in and outside her family. Like other women growing up in this era, she was assaulted, blamed for it, and the…

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Coping with Mental Health Challenges with JaneA Kelley 1:00:01

9M ago1:00:01

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Coping with Mental Health Challenges with JaneA Kelley JaneA Kelley has throughout her life gathered mental health diagnoses. She has Bipolar 2, PTSD, and ADHD. JaneA candidly talks about these diagnoses; what they mean to her; how they complicate or add to her life; and how she copes with them. She talks about finding herself at rock bottom and th…

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Can't Eat Love with Leslie Davis 1:00:01

9M ago1:00:01

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Can't Eat Love with Leslie Davis Leslie Davis’ life moved through a haze that didn’t include her own feelings. After what she has deemed an Emotional Tsuunami, she developed a means of accessing her feelings, sorting through them, and then accepting them. For decades now, this process has proven to be a powerful healing tool. Join us as Leslie desc…

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Door knobber Diagnosis: Misdiagnosed Borderline Personality 1:00:02

10M ago1:00:02

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Door knobber Diagnosis: Misdiagnosed Borderline Personality When a client drops a therapeutic bombshell as they are leaving a session, counselors call this a “door knobber”. Lynn came to talk with Bernadine about her experience with the Borderline Personality and the door knobber that her therapist laid on her at the tail end of a phone conversatio…

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Dispelling Myths about BC Mental Health Ace with Rob Wipond 1:00:01

10M ago1:00:01

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Dispelling Myths about the BC Mental Health Act with Rob Wipond It is so very often that we hear misinformation about the BC Mental Health Act. It is so widely held and believed in some of our BC communities, that if you check yourself into a psych ward voluntarily you can leave when you want and you can refused any treatment that you feel won’t wo…

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Mad Pride Cabaret Vancouver 2024 1:00:01

10M ago1:00:01

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Mad Pride Cabaret Vancouver 2024 Have you ever stepped into a room and had a bunch of mad people celebrating the chance to freely be who they are? Well that is what Mad Pride is. In 2024, Vancouver celebrated Mad Pride through the Connection Salon at the Gathering Place downtown. And this program not only talks with three of the performers at Mad P…

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Randy Tait on Recovery and Ceremony 1:00:01

11M ago1:00:01

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Randy Tait on Recovery and Ceremony If you had gone to the 33rd Annual Women’s March it would have been hard for you to miss Randy Tait in his red jacket with matching red John Fluevog shoes. He circled the crowd bestowing eagle down on the heads of elders, guardians, and organizers. Randy is from the Nisga’a / Gitksan Nation. He has made Vancouver…

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When it is a Therapist who Experiences Therapy Abuse and Exploitation 1:00:01

11M ago1:00:01

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When it is a Therapist who Experiences Therapy Abuse and Exploitation She came on RTM to talk about her own experience of therapy abuse and exploitation at the hands of her psychologist. But she is unable yet to do so using her name. Why? Because she is also a psychologist who fears retribution for speaking out. She chats with Bernadine about her e…

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Decolonizing mental health: What is it? 1:00:01

11M ago1:00:01

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Decolonizing mental health: What is it? Norman Leech, is currently the Executive Director for the Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, and was the Executive Director for Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre from 2016-2023. He still works to change the fact that Indigenous people are “over-represented in most negative social health indicators,…

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Retiring Well with Jake 1:00:01

12M ago1:00:01

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Retirement with Jake Jake is 64 years old. He is retiring in one month. As he is reaching what is what some called the golden age, his life blows up. He is evicted from an affordable residences so that his landlord’s parents can move in. He is in the middle of moving from a disability pension to a regular pension and is not really sure what his inc…

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Jason Fareas on Addiction and Recovery 1:00:01

12M ago1:00:01

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Jason Fareas on Addiction and Recovery From his website, Jason describes himself as having an unstable childhood although he is very clear that he was a loved child by the adults in his life. He talks about the development of his addiction and then his involvement in the drug trade. On his podcast, he shares his "journey from addiction to recovery"…

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Forced Committals with Barbara Phillips 1:00:02

12M ago1:00:02

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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.By Bernadine Fox

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The Correlation between Weight and Child Sexual Abuse with Patty Cabot 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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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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Coping with Grief during the Holidays and Anniversaries 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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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 …

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Gifts of Madness, David Granirer and Katharine Giovanni 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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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 …

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Haida Storytelling with Giihlgiigaa 1:00:07

1+ y ago1:00:07

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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 p…

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Consent: Its Misuse as a Weapon and a Shield in Therapy Abuse 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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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, whe…

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Rape Culture and the Long Road to Healing with Lenny Gagnon 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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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 aga…

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988 Forced Committals and Suicide Assessment Toola 53:43

1+ y ago53:43

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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 Assessm…

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Charlene Hellson/Unpacking the Backpack, Stacy Ashton with Crisis & Suicide Prevention & Fraser McKenzie from Coast Mental Health 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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Charlene Hellson/Unpacking the Backpack, Stacy Ashton from Crisis Intervention, and Fraser McKenzie from Coast Mental Health. Bernadine brings you information on several opportunities for education and support. Grandmother, performer, writer, and Indigenous Mental Health Advocate, Charlene Hellson from the Siksika Nation (Blackfoot Confederacy) tal…

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Taking Care of Each Other: The Morin Family Living with Alzheimers (with Peter, Cathleen & Janell Morin) 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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Peter, Cathleen, and Janell Morin, from the Tahltan nation, join Bernadine to chat about what happens when Alzheimers grabs hold of a family generation after generation, but mostly to describe their loving care of their mother as she makes this journey. So often we hear of older people with Alzheimers unable to care for themselves and/or plagued wi…

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Weetigo on Intergenerational Trauma, Epigenetic Memory, and Superpowers 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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Weetigo on Intergenerational Trauma, Epigenetic Memory, and Superpowers Weetigo is a brilliant 60s Scoop Survivor and band member of the Poundmaker Cree Nation. Bernadine met him through TikTok where he talks about intergenerational trauma and epigenetic memory from the perspective of indigeneity. His intriguing ideas are based on what we know abou…

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Outsider Arts Festival and Haida Storytelling with Giihlgiigaa Todd DeVries 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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Outsider Arts Festival and Haida Storytelling with Giihlgiigaa Todd DeVries On ReThreading Madness we chat with the organizers and one of the performers of the Outsider Arts Festival here in Vancouver BC. Kristin Cheung, Executive Director, and Rocky Riobo of Rocky and the Gems give us the inside goods on the what, where, how, and who of this years…

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More Than One: Dr. Colin Ross on Dissociative Identities 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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TRIGGER WARNING: Explicit descriptions of child sexual abuse More Than One: Dr. Colin Ross on Dissociative Identities Dr. Colin Ross, world renown expert of Dissociation, and Bernadine chat about Dissociative Identities: what is it, how to look at it, how the world copes with it, and how you can cope with it. In amongst there they compare DID to sc…

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A Glimmer of Hope around Recovery with Susi Milne 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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A Glimmer of Hope around Recovery wieth Susi Milne TRIGGER warning Talk about alcoholism and substance abuse along with sexual trauma as a young child. Some profanity during spoken word recital. Bernadine chats with the effervescent Susi Milne about their recovery from alcoholism and substance abuse (Oxycodone and Ativan). There is literally no one…

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Are We Old Yet? Women talking about Aging 1:00:01

1+ y ago1:00:01

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Are We Old Yet? Women talking about Aging. Today on RTM, I talk with three different women all of whom are over 60 years of age and all of whom would agree that our mental health as we age has nothing to do with fashion, interior design, beauty, cooking, or the health and wellbeing of our spouses or children. So, what does it have to do with? It is…

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Alex Sangha from Sher Vancouver and Isabella Mori on her book Believe Me about mental health and addiction 53:17

1+ y ago53:17

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Alex Sangha from Sher Vancouver and Isabella Mori on her book Believe Me about mental health and addiction Bernadine chats with Alex Sangha about Sher Vancouver Gala, Emergence, and IMigrant. Alex Sangha's birth name is Amar Singh Sangha. He was born in Gravesend, Kent, England and raised in Surrey and North Delta, British Columbia, Canada. His mot…

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A Renewed Call for a Mad Pride Revolution on the 20th Anniversary of Hunger Strike: with David Oaks and Debra Nunez from MindFreedom 57:47

1+ y ago57:47

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Note: Please access the transcript (see below) so that you can follow along with David as he speaks. A stroke has damaged his ability to talk and at times it is hard to understand his words A Renewed Call for a Mad Pride Revolution on the 20th Anniversary of Hunger Strike: with David Oaks and Debra Nunez from MindFreedom Bernadine chats with David …

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Certified with JD Derbyshire 50:05

2y ago50:05

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The incredible JD Derbyshire who is a writer, comedian, mad activist, performer, playwright, theatre maker, director, inclusive educator and innovator joins Bernadine in RTM. We talk about being mad and the need for individuals who live with mental health challenges to have agency in their lives and to consider coming out. And we laughed… we laughe…

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Interview with Linda Pevac author of A Fire Is Coming a memoir about Therapy Abuse 56:10

2y ago56:10

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Includes a Trigger Warning Bernadine speaks with Linda Peavac (also known as Emma Stevens) who spoke with us recently about the experience of being an adopted child. Today we are talking about her experience of being exploited by her therapist and her memoir which describes this experience A Fire Is Coming. Therapy Abuse is an under-acknowledged tr…

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