*Meant to post this Passover ❤️

God wants you to get over your OCD. With Passover and Easter coming up, I see how much anxiety people carry into their faith during this time.

As a therapist and a rabbi, I’ll say it simply. OCD is not aligned with what God wants from you. Even when it sounds religious, even when it tells you to repeat, to check, to be perfect, that is not your true voice.

Your real self is about living with meaning, presence, and freedom. OCD pulls you away from that.

The more you recognize that, the more you can start to choose differently. God wants you to heal. God wants you to live fully and not let OCD take over your life.

Wishing you strength and real freedom this season. Happy holidays.

#OCDRecovery #AnxietyHelp #MentalHealth #ERP #Faith

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ERP is not the whole story in overcoming OCD. It’s crucial, it’s foundational to face your fears and stop avoiding your life through exposures, daily exposures, lifestyle exposures, all of it.

But the real ingredient is one word, commitment. Doing what you say you’re going to do, even when it’s uncomfortable, in service of getting better.

That’s where change starts. Not in perfect exposures, but in small, consistent follow through. When you build commitment, you start to believe you can actually change.

ERP is a tool, but commitment is the foundation. Start small today and keep your word to yourself. That’s how you take your life back.

#OCDRecovery #ERP #MentalHealth #Anxiety #SelfDiscipline

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Dear OCD community:

Just one thing today.

One place. One conversation. One moment of courage.

Face it. Don’t wait.

I believe in you.

#OCD #ExposureTherapy #AnxietyRecovery #ERP #MentalHealth

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Exposure therapy does not need to drag on.

Yes, sometimes we move gradually, and not everyone is ready for big exposures right away. But moving too slowly can accidentally reinforce the idea that bigger exposures are dangerous.

The goal isn’t just comfort. The goal is learning that you can handle discomfort.

With the right support and skills, people can often do much more than they think. You can take bigger steps. You can move forward faster than you might expect.

This is a reminder that growth doesn’t always have to happen at a snail’s pace.

#OCD #ERPtherapy #MentalHealth #Anxiety #OCDrecovery

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OCD can make you feel like you’re the exception. Like your thoughts are different, more real, more true.

But if someone else came to you with the exact same fear, you wouldn’t trust it. You’d call it OCD. You wouldn’t bet your life on it.

That’s the trap. In the moment, it feels uniquely convincing. But everyone with OCD feels that same “this time it’s different.”

Getting better starts with recognizing that you’re not the exception. Your mind is doing what OCD minds do.

The real you is the part that can step back, notice it, and say “this is OCD.” That voice isn’t dramatic, but it’s grounded and true.

You are unique as a person. Just not uniquely exempt from OCD.

#OCD #OCDRecovery #ERP #IntrusiveThoughts #Anxiety

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Here’s a natural support for OCD that people underestimate: go outside and walk.

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When you’re stuck in rumination, tracking, and mental loops, your world shrinks to your thoughts. Walking helps you re-engage your body, your senses, and the actual world around you.

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This isn’t avoidance and it’s not a replacement for ERP or medication. Keep doing your real OCD work. But also give your mind somewhere healthy to land.

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OCD pulls you inward. Movement brings you back outward. That shift matters.

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Let your body move, let your senses wake up, let your mind get a bit of rest. Especially now. It’s spring.

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Step outside. Keep walking.

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#OCD #OCDRecovery #ExposureAndResponsePrevention #IntrusiveThoughts #Rumination

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OCD treatment needs great organization.

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If you’re struggling to follow through with exposures, or you’re a therapist trying to build accountability with clients, this matters.

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Exposures don’t happen “sometime today.” They need to be scheduled precisely and tied to real routines.

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Just like building any habit, this takes structure, reminders, and consistency. The harder the task, the more intentional the system needs to be.

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Clean up your reminders. Get specific about timing. Build it into your day.

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This is often the breakthrough.

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Giving you strength to keep going.

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#OCD #ERPtherapy #MentalHealth #Habits #ExecutiveFunction

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Exposure therapy needs a rebrand. A lot of people hear “exposure therapy” and think it means forcing yourself to suffer or “torture” yourself in order to eventually get better. That framing is not only inaccurate, it actually pushes people away from something that can really help.

A better way to understand it is courage therapy. The goal isn’t to hurt yourself — it’s to strengthen your ability to live in alignment with what is real, true, and meaningful to you. Yes, there is fear involved, and I don’t want to minimize that. But every time you choose not to listen to the OCD voice, you’re strengthening a deeper, wiser voice inside of you that knows how you actually want to live.

If you’re doing ERP, you’re not torturing yourself — you’re building courage. And that gets stronger over time.

#ocd #erptherapy #exposuretherapy #anxiety #ocdrecovery

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Internet compulsions are one of the hardest parts of OCD today.

Research compulsions are everywhere. Reddit threads. Google searches. AI chats. Endless “just one more check” loops looking for certainty or reassurance.

And there’s an added difficulty. The internet itself is highly addictive and difficult to regulate even without OCD.

That’s why response prevention here sometimes needs more than willpower.

Assistive technologies that block apps or websites on schedules can give people real space to build skills and break compulsive habits. Just like glasses help someone see, tools can help people practice the inner work of resisting compulsions.

Therapists should be talking about this more and even learning these tools themselves.

Curious what people think.

#OCD #ERPtherapy #MentalHealth #OCDrecovery #AnxietySupport

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Internet compulsions are one of the hardest parts of OCD today.

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Research compulsions are everywhere. Reddit threads. Google searches. AI chats. Endless “just one more check” loops looking for certainty or reassurance.

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And there’s an added difficulty. The internet itself is highly addictive and difficult to regulate even without OCD.

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That’s why response prevention here sometimes needs more than willpower.

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Assistive technologies that block apps or websites on schedules can give people real space to build skills and break compulsive habits. Just like glasses help someone see, tools can help people practice the inner work of resisting compulsions.

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Therapists should be talking about this more and even learning these tools themselves.

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Curious what people think.

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Does your OCD theme keep changing?

A lot of people worry about this. They start working on one theme in therapy and wonder if OCD will just move somewhere else. The classic “whack-a-mole” fear.

Theme switching can happen. But when you look closely at OCD, the themes are less important than they seem. The details change, but the structure stays the same. Triggers. Intrusive thoughts or images. Anxiety. Then rituals or avoidance.

It’s the same mechanism.

So when you really learn how to work with one theme, you are building skills that apply everywhere. Learning to tolerate the discomfort of intrusive thoughts. Learning not to engage in compulsions. Learning to move forward even when uncertainty is present.

Those abilities travel with you. Even if the theme changes, the way through it is the same.

#OCD #OCDRecovery #ERP #MentalHealth #Anxiety

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Is “trust your gut” good advice for OCD?

In general culture people say trust your instincts. Trust that inner feeling that tells you what’s safe and what’s not.

But with OCD, that instinct system often gets hijacked.

You might walk into a room and suddenly feel a strong sense that something is wrong. That feeling can seem like intuition. But very often it is the OCD process reacting to a trigger. A person, a smell, an image, a thought. OCD sends a danger signal even when there is no real danger.

So “trust your gut” is not always helpful advice for someone dealing with OCD.

A better question is: what does my wise mind say?

Wise mind is the place where logic, emotion, experience, and values come together. In spiritual language, you might call it the voice of the soul. It is wider than instinct and calmer than fear.

Sometimes instinct and wise mind agree. But many times with OCD they do not. In those moments the goal is not to follow the gut reaction, but to follow the wiser voice that knows the direction you actually want your life to go.

#OCD #OCDRecovery #ERP #MentalHealth #Anxiety

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OCD thrives in the darkness.

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It grows when the stories stay hidden in the mind. OCD can build incredibly elaborate structures of meaning, beliefs, and fears that nobody else ever sees.

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But the moment you let someone into that world, things can begin to improve.

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Whether it’s a therapist, a friend, or family, speaking about OCD out loud changes something. With love, compassion, and sometimes even humor, the logic of OCD starts to show its cracks. I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had where we end up laughing together at the strange logic OCD creates. The pain is still real, but the spell breaks for a moment.

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And in that moment a person can step back and say, “Wait… is this really true?”

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Getting OCD into the light is often the beginning of getting better.

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#OCD #OCDRecovery #ERP #MentalHealth #Anxiety

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Language matters in OCD.

In everyday culture people say “I’m obsessing about this.” But in OCD that’s not really what’s happening. Obsessions are intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that show up without permission. They are not a choice. What we do have agency over is the response. That’s where compulsions come in.

So instead of saying “I’m obsessing,” it can sometimes be more accurate to say “I’m compulsing.” The obsession arrived on its own. The compulsion is the behavior or mental action we take in response to it.

I also think the word “compulsion” doesn’t always capture the full picture. Because OCD is not only about what people do. It’s also about what people don’t do. The places they avoid. The conversations they don’t have. The risks they don’t take.

That’s why I sometimes like the word “rituals.” Rituals include both the actions we perform and the avoidances that quietly shape a person’s life. Seeing both helps people understand how OCD operates and where recovery work actually happens.

When the language becomes clearer, the path forward often becomes clearer too.

#OCD #OCDRecovery #ERP #MentalHealth #Anxiety

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OCD is a family affair.

If someone you love is struggling, the first step is suppot. Learn about OCD. Help them find good therapy. Encourage treatment.

But if things feel stuck, know this. You are not powerless.

Families can unintentionally keep OCD running. Reassurance. Adjusting routines. Doing things for them. Avoiding triggers together. It comes from love. But sometimes love needs structure.

You can get your own guidance. You can learn what not to enable. You can learn where to set boundaries. You can change the system around the OCD. And when the system changes, the OCD often loses strength.

It is not your fault. But you do have influence.

OCD recovery is not just individual work. It is family work.

#OCD #OCDRecovery #ERP #FamilySupport #MentalHealth

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If you’re in OCD therapy right now, just keep going.

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Every exposure matters. Every time you resist a compulsion matters. Every small decision to move toward the life you want matters. You are building strength whether you feel it yet or not. It does get easier. Not magically. But because you are rewiring your courage.

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Your therapists believe in you. I believe in you. Now it’s time for you to start believing in yourself too.

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#OCD #OCDRecovery #ERP #ExposureTherapy #AnxietyRecovery

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If you want recovery to go faster and deeper, you have to gently admit something uncomfortable: sometimes OCD feels like it serves you. Not because it’s good. Not because you want it. But because in certain moments it gives you something — a sense of control, a burst of relief, reassurance, certainty. Even if it only lasts a few seconds.

Real change begins when you can acknowledge that without shame. When you say, “I see what this has been giving me — and I’m ready to get those needs met in a healthier way.” That’s where motivation gets stronger. That’s where courage deepens. And that’s when recovery becomes real.

Keep going.

#OCD #OCDRecovery #ERP #Anxiety#MentalHealth

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Rumination is almost universal in OCD. Different themes, same loop. The mind grabs a question and refuses to let go.

One thing I often recommend is building the skill of directing your thinking. Not controlling thoughts. Directing thinking. Most of the day we’re flooded with input — screens, noise, information. We rarely practice choosing what to think about. Go somewhere quiet. Leave your phone. Pick a topic on purpose. Someone you love. A project you care about. A memory. Stay with it. When other thoughts pop up, let them be there and gently return to what you chose.

You’re training attention. You’re strengthening the muscle of choosing where your mind goes. That way, when rumination starts, you recognize it and say, I’m not engaging this right now. I can focus elsewhere. It’s a simple practice, but it builds real freedom.

#OCD #Rumination #ERP #MentalHealth #Mindfulness

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This is a message for every incredible human being in OCD therapy right now.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, of blessed memory, once said that faith is not certainty, but the courage to live with uncertainty. That’s what you’re doing. Every time you resist a compulsion. Every time you choose not to check, not to wash, not to seek reassurance. You are choosing faith over certainty.

The greatest leap of faith you can take right now is to stop listening to OCD and start listening to your deeper self. Your values. Your soul. You are not your fear. You are someone brave enough to face it. And that courage is already proof of who you really are.

#OCD #ERP #MentalHealth #Therapy #OCDawareness

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Here’s why virtual OCD therapy works so well.

When we’re online, I’m not limited to an office. I can meet clients where their fears actually live — in their homes, on the bus, near work, in real life. We don’t just plan exposures and hope they’ll do them later. We do them together, in real time. I’m in their ear while they face the fear.

There’s something powerful about that. Less travel, less friction, more creativity, more immediacy. I’ve had clients step away mid-session to do a shower exposure and come back stronger. Virtual therapy isn’t a compromise. For OCD work, it can be an advantage.

Therapists, clinicians, clients — curious what your experience has been.

#OCD #ERP #VirtualTherapy #Psychotherapy #MentalHealth

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Facing your fear and not doing the compulsion. Walking into the room with a child. Not washing your hands again. Sitting with uncertainty. That’s not surface-level work. That’s putting your deepest beliefs on the line and challenging them through action.

Insight matters. Understanding matters. But when you move differently, when you act against fear, when you step into the fire, that becomes transformation. Real change happens in behavior. And the clarity that comes after courage is deeper than analysis alone.

#OCD #ERP #BehavioralTherapy #MentalHealth #OCDawareness

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This is a message to every single person in OCD therapy right now.

As a therapist, and just as a human being, I want you to know how deeply I admire you. The courage it takes to face what terrifies you, to sit with uncertainty, to resist compulsions, to walk straight into the discomfort instead of running from it — that is not small. It is heroic.

Your OCD points to what you care about. The harm you’re afraid of causing, the wrong you’re terrified of doing, the responsibility you feel — it all reflects a sensitive, soulful heart. You are not broken. You are someone who cares deeply.

Keep going. Stop avoiding. Resist the compulsion. Get back to your values. Your life is bigger than OCD. And I promise you, your therapist believes in you more than you know.

#OCD #MentalHealth #ERP #psychotherapy #Therapist

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This week, we provide tips for managing hyperactivity symptoms in ADHD.

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This week we discuss how to make effective New Year's Resolutions.

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This week we talk strategies for adult ADHD.

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This week, we discuss intrusive thoughts and the best ways to manage them.

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This week, we discuss Containation OCD.

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This week's blog provides resources for finding free therapy in Ontario.

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This week's blog discusses the difference between mental health professionals and how to choose the right one.

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This week, we discuss ego-dystonic thoughts in OCD, why they're distressing, and how therapy can help people manage these thoughts.

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This week we discuss why it can take several months to get an appointment with a psychiatrist and whether it's possible to speed up the process.

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This week, we discuss dissociation - the signs and symptoms, and how we can treat it.

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This week, we touch on "Pure O" OCD and how it is different from other subtypes.

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This week, we discuss strategies for time management in ADHD.

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This week's blog discusses intrusive thoughts in OCD.

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This week's blog discusses the pros and cons of online vs in-person therapy.

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This week's blog discusses the common types of anxiety disorders.

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This week's blog explains the three different types of ADHD.

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In this week's blog, we talk about the different ways that ADHD can affect romantic relationships.

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This week, we talk about medications for OCD on the blog.

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This week's podcast discusses the ways that OCD affects relationships.

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This week's blog discusses how often you will need to see a therapist.

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This week, we share some tips on how to stay focused and improve your concentration.

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This week's blog discusses the common subtypes of OCD.

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This week, we discuss five common reasons that people make people give up on New Year's Resolutions.

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This week, we discuss some of the benefits of working with a student intern therapist.

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This week, we discuss what neuroscientists understand about how therapy can change the brain.

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This week's blog focuses on burnout - what it is and how to deal with the symptoms.

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This week's blog discusses the many potential causes and contributors to OCD.

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This week, we discuss student insurance coverage. Find out if you're covered by your insurance plan at www.resolvve.ca/insurance.

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This week, we share some tips for making new friends.

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In the season finale for Braving the Waves, Mikaela reads a poem about the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 method, which is a grounding technique meant to support you through stress, anxiety, and panic.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

I see a pair of eyes—one gold & one white— among a blue field of birds & unharvestable cotton. I stretch & slip between two bolls until my stem is parallel; until I can bend it like a back & let them stitch to it, helping me fly as if my leaves were feathers.

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In this week's blog, we provide a primer to setting healthy boundaries.

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This week's poem and episode explore a story—one of a young person navigating the grief of losing both their mother and their dog. But there is much more to this story, as there are always many layers of grief. This story brings us alongside someone re-writing what love’s residue is and how forgiveness isn’t linear.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

Love can’t burn—burn away, that is— there’s always something left at the end to remind you that death isn’t your fault.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog explains how social workers can provide therapy. Listen to learn what differentiates them from other mental health practitioners.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a Villanelle, which is a French form of poetry alternating two repeating lines. This episode is inspired by the famous poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night”, by Dylan Thomas.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

So hungry, I leave just a sliver of white and feed every memory of when  I’d never been outside at night.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves

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This week, our blog discusses some strategies you can use to stop being a people pleaser and become more assertive.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem about someone who has recently experienced sexual assault or violence. When they encounter a kind person in a coffee shop the morning after—who treats them very differently—they wrestle with the many emotions, feelings, and memories that arise.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

But the boy brought my coffee and held it out with both hands until I took it with both hands And he spoke, “You’re b…” He looked down,  breathed out,  and said, “I love your style”  with the kindest furrowed brow smile I’d felt loved by in a long while.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog post discusses what you can do to make the most out of therapy.

Read here: www.resolvve.ca/blog/6-tips-to-get-the-most-out-of-therapy

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This week's poem and episode use a Tanka, a Japanese form of poetry usually a single unbroken sentence with 31 syllables. The number of lines (when these poems are translated into English) is typically 3-5 to spotlight the twist or turn in the last third or so of the poem. With the beginning of a new school year and the approach of fall, I wanted to create an episode that can serve as a sort of reminder/mantra to love and fill ourselves abundantly from the inside out, which, of course, allows us to offer rich and colourful love to others.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

I offer you as many arms as a tree and I pray you believe in enough  to fill them with your leaves instead of paper…

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog delves into common misconceptions about therapy.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer’s poem explores a student’s experience of feeling overwhelmed nearing back-to-school season. Sometimes, though the best preparation is soaking up every last ounce of summer, we forget that this includes rest (the same way an extra few hours of sleep before an exam will often be more beneficial than a few more hours of late-night studying).

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

We’ll wander around our house thinking about preparing while really, unable to think.

We’ll stand in our shower trying to scrub & rinse away overwhelm by scribbling those three words across the flexible fibreglass in the milky soap-ink of shampoo,  conditioner, hot water & cold: back to school.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog discusses how to overcome driving OCD.

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On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that explores the painful experiences some people have around their birthdays. As with any milestone, birthdays can be marked and haunted by emptiness and feelings that we haven’t accomplished or fulfilled our purpose enough (among other things). This poem attempts to reframe birthdays in a supportive way.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

And I wondered, what if birthdays were every day rather than once a year?

If every day were one of birth?

Because more days for birth means more soil space for seasonal joy and the way it changes & charges us.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem about someone who didn’t know how to help a struggling parent/guardian who offered abundant love, imagination, and play while they were alive.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

I knew what I needed to do the moment the headlights came on, after which, it gets to be  later & later— bluer & bluer— reminding me that all windows close & this one especially fast.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer explores the moment we recognize that someone loves us, whether this is a family member, partner, friend, etc.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

My first time feeling alive, if for a moment in time,

was because this baby breathed with what was inside me:

the honour & privilege of looking at someone

& being able to say that which rips our breath away

without it being a question: my stars, you love me.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog explains ego-dystonic thoughts and how to treat them with exposure and response prevention therapy.

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On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that explores how to create a safe space in your mind—a place only for you.

It also discusses how difficult this can be among so many other thoughts, distractions, and constant content consumption. The poem in the episode is a sestina, which includes a repetitive echo by using the same six end words in different combinations and orders. Our thoughts also create echoes/repetition, so this episode can help us reclaim and create a healthy echo chamber in our minds. The poem allows us to unpack society’s sometimes invasive definition of safety and potentially brainstorm a new one.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

Where can we be safe when ceilings & walls won’t share? Those in our own brain—not the boundaries of shelter but the exponentially spreading Rubik's cube boxes— apartments plugged with everything but joy. Could we keep just one free? For love? Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's podcast discusses therapist confidentiality and the extreme cases in which a therapist is legally obligated to break confidentiality. We also discuss how therapists navigate suicidal ideation, and whether these thoughts are also reported.

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This week on Braving the Waves, Mikaela reads a poem about a long, brimming conversation between strangers on a long flight.

Near the end of the exchange, someone speaks the phrase, “stay with us,” which, out of context, can be interpreted many ways. In most, it’s an offer of comfort and hospitality, such as, “stay with us when/if you visit, stay at our hotel, or stay the night when there’s is a storm that makes driving dangerous. But in this episode, the poem’s narrator unwinds the words a bit further. As someone struggling with suicidal thoughts, they wonder if the extension of “stay with us” is an offering of safety—what’s requested is not only to stay, but to stay with us.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

and so I gathered, if anything, that they’d heard, seen, felt, or breathed, 

something in my voice or speech or careful anecdotes breaking, which made them repeat:

stay with us

(please don’t leave this world yet)

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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In this week's blog post, we wrote about the mental health meds that might make it harder for you to tolerate hot weather.

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Mikaela's poem this week brings us alongside someone going for a walk after a harmful argument. As they process, they find themselves questioning the balance between necessary solitude and approaching apology with vulnerability and openness.

There is something to be said for needing alone time and space after a disagreement, especially in reaching the conclusion that we’re the ones who need to apologize, but there is also vitality in re-entering a space with someone heart-first or spirit-first post-argument, even if you don’t have perfectly rehearsed words. Words do matter. Harm matters. Intent does matter (though not to gaslight harm). Love—how we balance these in space and community with others—needs imperfect willingness and courage, keeping in mind that imperfect is not synonymous with flawed, damaged, or defective.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

& I know that if I hug my body into a curly coil where I can only see myself, I might find solitude but also dark stillness.

If I open my chest & unfurl, I will see light in daring to cross the sidewalk bridge, moving from stillness to slowness.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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Mikaela Brewer’s poem and episode this week are a bit of a mantra/reminder to carry in your pocket, especially as things feel heavy. The month of June is celebratory in many ways, including Pride, Juneteenth, Indigenous History Month, and Men’s Mental Health Month, among many more. And we know it’s important for joy and advocacy to coexist, especially in our student communities.

With this, comes many emotions, and right now, to put it in the simplest terms: things are hard for all of us, and in many ways, feel like they won’t ever change. This poem doesn’t say “It’s going to be okay” but my hope is that it offers you hope, and a new way to imagine/dream—our most powerful skill.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

Don’t let anyone tell you that imagining &  dreaming is only for children— these are perhaps most powerful when we remember how to wield them as young adults.

The greatest gift you can receive or bestow (upon anyone or anything) is to be believed in.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog introduces the concept of neurodiversity.

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This week’s Braving the Waves poem and episode explore the feelings associated with reconnecting with a mentor, friend, coach, teacher, or anyone who offered guidance to you as a kid or teenager.

The poem takes place after lost contact and many years have passed between these two people, which I think happens more often than we admit. This episode conveys what it means to reach out again (if appropriate and safe, of course), and specifically that remembering doesn’t just mean “not forgetting”—it means saying “thank you” wherever and however we can.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

What does it mean to remember someone? Not someone who’s passed away, but someone we haven’t spoken to in years who was once a reason we survived? Of course, it means to not forget them, which is to say ‘thank you’ fiercely. Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog discusses some ways that you can help support loved ones with OCD.

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This week's poem from our sister podcast, Braving the Waves explores memory, especially those valuable to recall as we approach graduation (which I know many of us are at this time), well before the tasks, lists, and thoughts surrounding moving, university, or a first full-time job set in. Think of these tasks, lists, and thoughts as the vertebrae while the potent memories are the spine that allows you movement, feeling, and a rooted way forward.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

Please, let me back you up a little bit because you’ll need to pack for graduation first, either in a notebook or a branch of your brain,  and on the other  bough-like bookshelves of your mind, you’ll find these the way you might shop from memory & association when  you not only forget the list but forget just how many things you’ve remembered…

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog explains what it means when a psychotherapist is "qualifying".

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This week's poem and episode discuss climate change anxiety, grief, outrage, sadness, frustration, and the myriad of emotions that come up when we’re worried about our planet.

Most importantly, my hope for this episode is that it conveys the message that making space to feel nature’s pain is love, and love is the prerequisite for just about anything. Feeling this openly and outwardly is necessary—in witnessing climate change or any other loss of life—and not a sign that you’re not doing enough, fighting hard enough, or coping well enough. It’s a sign that you’re willing to be changed. And our willingness to be moved and changed is a powerful catalyst.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

and what that makes you feel, even if just recognition of their will to turn toward light, is love. And it's always the first step anyway. So feel it. Weep. It's okay.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's episode discusses the mental health benefits of journaling.

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This week's poem and episode dive into the common phrase “hindsight is twenty-twenty,” asking us to think about looking back with a bit more nuance.

For example, seeing an experience more clearly in retrospect shouldn’t diminish how it was felt at the time, particularly how these feelings are remembered in the body and soul (when our mind tends to intellectualize memory). The poem is written with a sonnet in mind, which usually follows fourteen lines (three stanzas of four and one of two), ten syllables per line, abab rhyme, and iambic pentameter (da-DUM, da-DUM).

Our poem includes fourteen lines with ten syllables each, but doesn’t rhyme or include a clear meter. Sonnets are often love poems about desire, but here, it’s about the desire to see that looking back at anything thoughtfully is messier than twenty-twenty, while no less meaningful.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

Nearly always, we see things more clearly after they’ve happened. But why do we see  best when looking behind us, each other? Backward in time? Never ahead, forward?

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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In this audio blog, we discuss some ways that you can support a friend or loved one struggling with mental health.

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In this week's audio blog, we answer a question that are therapists get frequently: "How often do I need to go to therapy?"

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This week’s poem and episode discuss the painful feeling of longing to be like someone else, which can often be confused with both looking up to someone and idolizing them. Of course, these are very different things! It’s a wonderful thing to be inspired by someone’s vibe or style, but this can easily trickle into self-worth/esteem/confidence and comparison traps.

Through a more storytelling-focused poem, this episode breaks down what separates us in these ways, specifically how longing to be like someone else (as a tendril of not feeling like we’re enough) is a reflection of both the need to look inward and acknowledging that the other person perhaps needs to do the same (and inviting them to do this with you, if possible).

The poem is about seeing ourselves in others, others in ourselves, and knowing where and how old the walls, buildings, and boxes of comparison truly are.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

But then, I imagine plucking a brick from the old building like a book from a shelf. What story would each hold & tell? There are thousands of brick books per building, so says the internet, gaps to grasp them sealed with mortar until the grains of stories and truths finally break their bonds free, crumbling the building to bits under their new gas-phase weight because the more brick books you free from their shelves, the faster the building falls. Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's audio blog is about panic disorder.

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This week, Mikaela reads a poem about coming home from college/university for the spring and summer (though it can absolutely apply to returning home after having been away a long time, too).

The poem and episode look at the possible tension between the comforts/familiarity of a childhood home and the newfound freedom/independence we seek as young adults, perhaps realizing for the first time that we aren’t merely extensions of our parents or guardians. It’s strange returning to a place that hasn’t changed when we have.

The poem is written in a loose sapphic ode (four-stanza sections called quatrains—the first three lines of each have 11 syllables and the fourth has five). This form is usually formal, lyric, and ceremonious, written and recited to celebrate ideas, people, places, etc.

Though I’ve stretched the stitching of the form, I hope it fits as a way to reflect on (and inherently honour) one of the deepest moments of knowing in our lives.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

Where & when are my parents not part of me? In different things, I now see and believe.  I want to feel I’m nearly twenty. Yet, in loving, always we?

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's audio blog explores whether social media is the cause of the youth mental health crisis.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that explores parenthood, but in the voice of a toddler who has a new little sibling. Being a parent is a beautiful experience, but it is also exhausting (and equally so at different points while a child grows up). And, perhaps especially when children are very young, it may feel like your physical, mental, emotional, and spirtual work to care for them isn’t quite understood or noticed. This poem seeks to reimagine this, offering a way in which toddlers and infants may communicate how much they love those who care for them during the most vulnerable years of their lives. 

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

What I mean is,  sometimes no smile means you’ve caught humans  loving the very very most that they can. And, I wish Mama & Dada knew that we knew. We see when they don’t smile— out of breath but not of love—trying to balance feeding us, changing us,  watching us, holding up our heads, hearts, souls (and eating, maybe, sleeping, occasionally).

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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In this week's audio blog we discuss where you can find free therapy and counselling services in Toronto, Ottawa, and beyond.

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The poem & episode this week presented by Mikaela Brewer are special birthday editions for Unsinkable’s 5th anniversary.

Please be sure to check out the resources, programs, partnerships, and action items Mikaela has shared in this episode. Thank you so much to our podcast guests from season 1 for lending their voices & words to this poem. You can re-listen to their episodes below!

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

Because we’ve braided this  woven raft of 4.1 million people, strong and vast, limbs linked,  lying on our backs and having practiced our breathing in sync, above the waves we float, steer, expand always and all ways.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog discusses cognitive processing therapy for PTSD and other conditions caused by trauma.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem and explores fears around trying therapy for the first time, juxtaposed with the experience of telling someone you love them.

We step into a stream of consciousness as someone journals their thoughts, navigating hesitancies around how therapy may or may not help them. It’s easy to feel like you have to fit into a box of what’s ‘normal’ or ‘acceptable’ to struggle with (and how this is at odds with what you may actually need to bring to therapy). Woven into our poem is an example of how to show we love someone without ever having said the words.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

I’m sure my best friend knows I might even bring this moment to therapy, yet they never swayed. Tucking my toes into my boots (and stomping my heel in) I know  I still need therapy and  I’m loved, too.

If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head totinyurl.com/bravingthewaves

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This week, we discuss issues around career anxiety on our blog. Read more at resolvve.ca/blog.

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This week, Mikaela reads a poem about bedtime procrastination.

The poem and discussion challenge the colloquial understanding of this experience alongside its common coping mechanisms, questioning the environments that create such behaviour—beyond our intentions and self-regulation. The poem asks us to consider: is this a lack of self-control or am I trying to meet a need the only way I can in my present circumstances and environment?

The full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com.

No, I haven’t looked at my screens for over thirty minutes. I read a magazine. I stretched muscles I only found ten minutes ago. I meditated. But for some reason, I’m still holding the closing loop of the box breath (and no, I don’t have hiccups). Rather, I’m stuck on the inhale of an extra cycle and can’t let it go. My body bursts with uncracked glowsticks that could build a seven-eleven and perch it along a deserted two-lane backstretch at midnight.

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This week we dive into the cost of accessing therapy in Ontario. Read more on our blog at www.resolvve.ca/blog.

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This week's blog discusses how a therapist can help you cope with the stress of the job search. Read more at resolvve.ca/blog.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that explores the relationship between mental health and money. Perhaps especially right now, many of us are feeling pinched by rising costs among much else. In particular, this episode unpacks the complicated common phrase and belief that “money isn’t everything.”

Though it might not be, we need livable wages of it to survive. Within this dynamic (and for the sake of our mental health and well-being), we can still challenge how we think about money, how society worships it, and how not to let it consume our spirit; intentionally disconnecting it from all that truly makes us feel most alive. 

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

Why do we swim, glide, and slide across the Earth? Because we real rich first.  and still are and that is where our fight is when we don’t have responses or answers like right now as you and I see that this poem didn’t and can’t fix any of the empties. But, it can dream, forcing us to ask where  we will break even, crooked, or fully? But you see,  the greatest power we have is the soul and  heart of each other—where the words of a poem break; cracking the dam to let a river run  right through it. Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog post introduces post-traumatic stress disorder, its symptoms, its treatment and provides a list of resources for more information. You can find the full post on resolvve.ca/blog.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer reads her poem about living "the best life" and the mucky parts of being people that we sometimes hide.

This poem and episode rips off the bandaid of a few good examples of these (which in truth, make us more human. It’s amusing how desperately we try to conceal bodily functions so deeply out of our control). 

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

But these are life. And perhaps our souls or minds are that thick, soft fog of ripe water  droplets suspended in the air. Or, as the frozen lake-like lagoon begins its March melt, our souls are the ice crystals—shards of the swamp’s frayed bedsheet at the edges of wet sandy shore— tinkling & twinkling together to make music,  welcoming the rebirth of vivacious life beneath the toy waves and their frosty icing.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog discusses impostor syndrome. Read more at resolvve.ca/blog.

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Mikaela Brewer reads a poem this week for International Women's Day on March 8th, inspired by America Ferrera’s speech in the Barbie movie.

In the format of a pantoum poetic form, which repeats lines in succeeding stanzas, the contradictions women face are perpetually repeated and in conversation with each other—overlapping and taking on new meanings that simultaneously clarify and confuse, similar to how finding an answer/response to our questions opens the door of further questions.

The purpose of this is to create a safe container for the cyclical feelings of overwhelm and exhaustion to be seen, heard, and shared. 

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

and don’t wait to grow old with a little selfish fear and peel back layers of beefy mould soup

and shave it shiny when you fall down & fail rudely because today we will snip the feeding tube Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog discusses the reasons that people might want to go to therapy. As always, you can read more at resolvve.ca/blog.

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This week Mikaela Brewer reads a poem centered around words for our sister podcast, Braving the Waves.

The poem and episode today explore longing for words when we don’t have any. One of our deepest aches, especially while navigating the depth of pain or peak of joy, is to have words at our disposal to give shape and meaning to these experiences—for ourselves, our notebooks, our poems, and our explanations to someone who hasn’t experienced what we’re trying to communicate, but is offering support.

Here's an excerpt of the poem:

The language I need is nearly extinct. Because you, body-brain, gave me my firsts— like language long before words— is it you who offers sounds, words, and sentences, and then clicks them together like looping linked lights swooping across lampposts like jungle vines?

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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On this week's blog (resolvve.ca/blog) is all about Depression 101. What is it? What are the symptoms? And how do we treat it?

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On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem about love.

How far outside the box can we take the concept of love, especially on the heels of Valentine’s Day and Family Day? Since love is such a critical element of our well-being and mental health, this poem offers a few of my thoughts on what love means, to both broaden and deepen how we think about it—namely as a central current in our lives. 

Here's an excerpt of the poem:

Yet, the question of our lives is always with us: unlike gravity, can we choose to break this law of love? Do we have the choice not to follow it?

Perhaps the true form of loving is agility: never forgetting to ask those two questions and tallying how many times we’ve answered, “Yes, but here’s how many times we haven’t.”

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog (resolvve.ca/blog) discusses how cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is used to treat ADHD.

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On this week's podcast, Mikaela Brewer looks at the acronym HALT through a poem. HALT stands for “hunger, anger, lonely, tired,” and it is often used as a method for checking in with yourself. For example, when you’re feeling activated or dysregulated, stop (halt) and ask yourself if one of these categories is suffering.

The intention is to support folks in getting to the root of what they’re feeling, alleviating any urge to rely on substances to cope. Though this is a helpful framework, sometimes the boundaries we draw between hunger, anger, loneliness, and being tired either have deeper roots or are a bit blurry.

They consistently overlay and can mean something different to each of our mind, body, and soul. Hunger, anger, loneliness, and being tired can also look different through time, such as throughout moments, hours, days, weeks, or years. This week’s poem seeks to explore this nuance, depth, and overlap. 

Here's an excerpt of the poem:

It’s a carpet, you see. Where do my hunger, anger, loneliness, and tiredness live? In my mind, body, and/or soul hungering for earth’s food while on fire with anger, feeling lonely among water life, yet tired of flying through empty airspace crammed with interference.  Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog (resolvve.ca/blog) discusses executive dysfunction and how it relates to ADHD and other mental illnesses.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that looks at a moment of recognition that a familiar, intimate pain is coming—one that can make us more vulnerable to various forms of relapse.

Through the personification of January and March, this episode is a personal one from me, exploring the pain of remembering a bone-deep pain and what it’s like to prepare for it, such as the anniversary of a loss, birthday, death, suicide attempt, or the beginning of a sobriety journey.

My hope is that the poem allows us to think about the question: “Why wade through the ache and loneliness every year?” Perhaps we were never alone, to begin with. Perhaps we wouldn’t be stronger if we didn’t have to remember. Perhaps we’re stronger if we do remember, together, and fumble forward in a way we wouldn’t have been able to if we didn’t feel.

Here's an excerpt of the poem: > I, March, nod. > “January, I know your waiting > isn’t the same as > November’s waiting— > where the joy is in the waiting > rather than the waiting for joy > to return. If it was ever there.” > > “But don’t forget that > memory doesn’t stop > for death. Nor does the life > of relationship, as known > by looking into a face > and seeing the layering > of ancestral features > that built it.”

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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On this week's blog we discuss psychiatry wait times across Canada. To learn more, visit our blog at www.resolvve.ca/blog.

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Mikaela Brewer's reading this week focuses on the feelings of anxiety that aren't frequently spoken about. February 1st/2nd also marked the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, which is celebrated through many different cultural traditions.

This episode discusses how even with seasonal shifts—especially the long-awaited ones between winter and spring—anxiety doesn’t always dissipate. Further, I’ve stretched and re-shaped the old villanelle poetic form for this poem.

The villanelle, traditionally, offers a frame for struggling with establishing conversational tone and narrative possibility, reading in non-linear circles that resist telling a complete story. This form sounds and feels a lot like the experience of anxiety, and I hope the structure and words capture the mood, emotion, and memory, too. 

Here's an excerpt of the poem:

We talk about aching waking up, but without breathless sensitivity, tents pitched for toilets,  and angry skin, soul, and stomach, unable to speak.

The eye of the storm must be halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox. Headache and dizziness. We don’t talk about aching with each type of waking. Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog provides tips and tricks for finding affordable therapy in Ontario. Read more at www.resolvve.ca/blog.

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This time, our blog discusses the different kinds of mental illness and how they're treated. You can read more at resolvve.ca/blog/.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem about memory and how it changes as we grow.

This episode and poem explore how easy it is to construct caricatures or imaginary people from our surroundings who are either better or less than ourselves (particularly the former). There is a delicate balance here between imagining (and moving toward) the life you want to live and romanticizing a perfect version that may never exist. This dynamic can further trap us into a pit of forgetting to be grateful for what’s in front of us, alongside recognizing those things we and others truly don’t have access to (due to financial reasons, discrimination, or other). This is a rich, deep topic and we hope you enjoy the episode! 

Here's an excerpt of the poem:

Crack open your eyes now. Taste lingonberry-soaked soft serve cupped by cold fingers. Argumentative. Drowsy eyes. Stooped, sore neck. Gaze down. Notice the arrows shiver. Blink. You’ve been asleep for a long time.

They’re not real. They’re cast from a projector concealed in the ceiling. Wander to display windows. They’re balconies of pale brick walls closer than any house is allowed to be built. Silly. The pre-constructed persona people with matching puppies from 101 Dalmatians live here, in Ikea.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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On this week's blog, we discuss exposure and response prevention therapy - a first line treatment for OCD. You can find the full written version posted on our blog at www.resolvve.ca/blog.

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Our sister podcast, hosted by Mikaela Brewer is back. This week, she's excited to share the first poem of 2024 with you.

In the setting of a cozy kitchen, this poem captures our moments on social media with a twist. It explores the “Favourites” feature on Instagram, namely one way in which to use it mindfully: curating your relationship with social media.

For example, carefully choosing a recipe of art, music, joy, passion, humour, social justice, activism, news, media, and environmental advocacy accounts (from diverse voices) for your 50 favourites, and returning to these for most of your daily social media allotment. Of course, this list is not exhaustive but hopefully is inspiring.

Here's an excerpt of the poem: Pluck a slice—a leaf—of mint to nibble,

and climb the creaky ladder to the pantry of cookbooks above the table, stools, and stove. It’s the laminated one— glossy and slick with clear plastic coils

when peeled from its silicone case. Flip to chapter 20, part 24: Infinite Instant Grams Description: a nutritional 50-fragment finger food favourite Prep & cook time: 20-30 minutes.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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On this week's blog, we help you figure out whether your college or university insurance will cover the cost of therapy. Learn more at resolvve.ca/blog.

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This week, our blog touches on everything related to family therapy - from discussing who can benefit to talking about the different types of family therapy.

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This week, we talk about seasonal affective disorder. To learn more, visit our blog at resolvve.ca/blog.

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On this week's blog, we discuss how social media can cause issues with your body image.

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Mikaela Brewer brings home the last poem of the year.

Many of us are venturing into and/or celebrating various holidays, and this poem offers a reminder—for you and me—that whatever we feel amid this season, is well within its right to need space. The season is rich, but not just with joy. Here's the full poem, because it's quite short:

Be still love, I’ll say. When we listen, all will be felt and is okay.

Now feel dearest one, exactly where you are now. Touch, taste, smell, see, hear.

Even rage, stress, hurt while the raw rye rises ripe. Even forlorn, lost.

Feel those energies within the bravest spirit. I believe it’s yours.

When you can’t believe, hear this spell spoken for two— faith held just for you.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the poem and some comforting notes. If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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On this week's blog we dive into teletherapy and discuss the advantages of speaking with a therapist online.

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This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem called "This is a Safe Space to Write."

Today’s poem brings us into a relationship between someone struggling and a friend they find support in speaking with. Because these two people don’t live close to one another—and haven’t met in person—the friend has offered their text chain as a space to write, share, be vulnerable, and journal, even if the friend isn’t always able to reply. This poem is in the voice of the person struggling, who shares their honest, co-existing gratitude for and complicated wrestle with this dynamic. 

Here's a snippet:

But the grass can’t be greener if I’ve never even known grass or green.

It’s in your holding of my hand without absorbing what it holds. In loving the hand itself.

Because all hands are a nebula moulding galactic weather patterns,

“Write here, anytime” is you saying: here is my open hand and though it will never be yours to use you can hold it with one hand while the other keeps writing.

Keeps fighting.

Listen to this week's episode to hear the rest of the poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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This week's blog looks at procrastination, why we procrastinate, and how we can work to beat it.

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Mikaela Brewer hosts another episode of our sister podcast, reading a poem called The Day the Sky Broke Open.

Today’s poem reflects something that’s been on my heart—the paradox between “tomorrow isn’t promised” and “there’s no rush.” As a young person with dreams, this is difficult to navigate at times, especially since I’ve personally experienced the deaths of several young people in my life, and we’re witnessing mass youth death across the globe.

With this in mind, I’ve caught myself asking: how dare I take my time with a project that might be needed yesterday. But I also know that intentionality, thoughtfulness, and patience are deeply essential responsibilities. And they require space and rest. This poem walks between these lines, even though I don’t have an explicit answer. I hope you enjoy it. Here's a snippet:

But I do know, at just 25, that chasing dreams demands delay if we rush— if we believe that we’re only worthy of them  if we witness their birthright inhale faster.

Listen in to this week's episode to hear the rest of the poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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On this week's blog, we talk about how you can go about getting a mental health diagnosis and weigh the potential pros and cons.

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Mikaela Brewer brings us another episode of the Braving the Waves Podcast with her latest reading. This week’s poem pilots us into an argument between a child and their father that has soured, where he has reverted to hurtful, personal attacks.

The voice in this poem carries us deeper into this instance—the child’s acknowledgement of overwhelm; a moment of mindful connecting to their five senses; and a deep compassion and awareness of the seed of their father’s hurt. At the end of the poem, there is a call—the narrator speaking to themselves—to understand the root of rot, boundaries, and capacity to both hold space and invite those who have caused harm into it—if they’re willing.

Here is a snippet of Drawing Lines:

There was a time I thought my own mental, spiritual, and physical shame needed forensics when there was no crime. They just needed love, breath, and space.

I cannot force you to change your mind, but I can offer safety for openness to having your mind changed.

Listen in to this week's episode to hear the rest of Drawing Lines. If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves!

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On this week's blog, we talk about how social media use can impact your mental health.

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Mikaela Brewer brings home another episode of Braving the Waves.

This week’s poem welcomes us into a family during the years-long process of writing a will, which in turn, requires a hovering awareness of death. This family’s experience asks us to redefine what hovering means, and how we choose to greet something that we’ve been taught to fear or feel uncomfortable about. It emphasizes the need to make space for conversations, thoughts, feelings, and emotions well in advance of death. 

Here is a snippet of My Family Writes a Will:

Though seemingly dark, body-shaped coffins, shadows are, rather, a place for life’s quiet, rebirth, rest, and growth because, if we love death thoroughly, they will say: by the love you’ve left, I’m deeply impressed, by not fearing me, I offer you the sea, or perhaps a tree, or anywhere else you wish to be free

Listen in to this week's episode to hear the rest of My Family Writes A Will. If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves

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On this week's blog, we talk about eating disorders and how they're treated.

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We bring you another episode of Braving the Waves, hosted by Mikaela Brewer, today.

This week’s poem excavates the complicated nature of receiving and replying to messages from someone who knows we're struggling and is lovingly checking in on us. It unpacks the nooks and crannies of this dynamic—such as the tension between gratitude and somatic reactions—and why responding is not as simple as it seems. 

Here is a snippet of Stuffed Silence:

I’m impotent. Can’t generate letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, but a bare-boned poem. Anxiety splashes and churns acid up the walls of my stomach reading your worry. Overwhelm casts cross, sweeping shadows against uncapacious chest walls writing a response. Panic squeezes breath & blood from my heartbeat—a bean crushed by knife face — tapping send. 

Listen in to this week's episode to hear the rest of Stuffed Silence! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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What is dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)? Our latest blog goes into depth about how long it might take for you to start to feel better and other things you can expect from therapy. Read more on our website's blog at www.resolvve.ca/blog

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We bring you the first episode of the new season of Braving the Waves hosted by Mikaela Brewer.

This week’s poem expands a simple moment—gathering breakfast early in the morning of October 28th—by juxtaposing it with deeper reflections. Listen in to this week's memory & moment poem: Morning Moons. If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves!

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How long does therapy take? Our latest blog goes into depth about how long it might take for you to start to feel better and other things you can expect from therapy. Read more on our website's blog at www.resolvve.ca/blog

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And now introducing the second season of our sister podcast, Braving the Waves.

To complement the storytelling program at Unsinkable and Resolvve's work with students, host Mikaela Brewer will be offering another way to Brave the Waves: crafting words for moments that feel like they don't have any, especially for those who don't feel comfortable writing, speaking, or publicly sharing. 

You'll have the opportunity to submit anonymous voice notes, memories, journal entries, photos, drawings, or anything that you feel captures a specific, meaningful moment in your life:

• They may reflect your most painful battle or bouquet of joy. 
• They can landscape profound memories: events, first dates, breakups, losses, weddings, birthdays, divorces, first therapy sessions, vacations, etc. 
• They could share simple moments: a walk between phone calls, pouring coffee (or spilling it), the first time a book spoke to you, or learning something new. 

Each week, Mikaela will gather materials from each submission in the memory box (http://tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves). She will then allow them to inspire a poem, which she will write and read aloud on the podcast each week. Alternatively, you're welcome to share writing/audio files that you'd like used verbatim. For example: a written piece that you'd like Mikaela to read aloud as is, or an audio file that you'd like us to weave into an episode. 

As you listen to our weekly episode, listen carefully: one will feature the experiences you shared. We hope that this will craft a comforting way to pause in a moment, preserve a memory, and feel seen/heard in it as it's given words and read aloud. 

If you'd like to share, please head to http://tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves to read more & submit. :)

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Now we present the final episode of our sister podcast, Braving the Waves. We will be continuing onward with a new format very soon. But for now, it is back to your regularly scheduled show notes!

"See, I told you that you could do it."

This week, Mikaela speaks with Stephanie, an elementary school educator in Ontario. When not teaching, she enjoys cosplaying at conventions, watching shows and films with her husband, travelling the world, and attending theatre. She enjoys assisting others in the neurodivergent community and advocating for mental health.

In this episode, we reflect on music, magic, solo travel, the paradox of time travel, how to actually glow up, and water as a metaphor for nearly everything. Here are a few tidbits of our conversation:

• Being a role model and giving back to organizations & community create incredible connection points.
• Using and exploring water as a metaphor for everything, especially unpredictability in life, struggle, and triumph.
• Thinking about glowing up beyond the physical attributes—feeling better rather than looking better. We 'glow' differently when we're healthy & mentally well. This energy is transferred—others notice! Glowing up is not always something you see but something you feel.
• Pause to ask, find out, or think about if someone needs help, even if their behaviour makes us uncomfortable.

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Go to www.resolvve.ca or weareunsinkable.com to get the support you need. Mikaela offers 1:1 peer support here.

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This week, we discuss everything you need to know about cognitive behavioural therapy in our blog.

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Throughout the last few months, we've featured our sister podcast, Braving the Waves, which is hosted by Mikaela Brewer as part of Unsinkable. We're delighted to bring you back for the final two episodes of the season.

This week, Mikaela speaks with Arielle, a young woman who grew up in a small town and lived a fairly simple life until she reached adulthood. A mom, a wife and a Human Resources Specialist who has decided it's time to share her horrific story with the world. A loving mother who will do anything in her power to help end the stigma of mental health so that her children grow up in a world where people talk about their mental health and are not shamed or judged. A passionate writer who has been writing her novel for five years in hopes of making a difference in the world.

In this episode, we reflect on motherhood, finding the right medications, family support, postpartum depression, navigating psychosis, and completing your self-care puzzle. Here are a few tidbits of our conversation:

• Complete your self-care puzzle, with pieces like exercise & journaling.
• You can be a parent who lives their life and shares their dreams.
• Being mindful of our words and delivery is crucial, especially when discussing diagnoses & symptoms.
• Vulnerability & courage coexist—moving through fear is the ultimate bravery.
• Work towards understanding yourself, your warning signs, and your regulation. For ex: when are your medications needed vs. another form of support?
• Medications won't cure you, and they take time (not like Advil!). They're one piece of the equation and aren't a one-size-fits-all.
• There is often fear around making time back when you're struggling as a mother.
• Don't live in darkness alone—even if one person doesn't connect with you, others will. Don't feel embarrassed or ashamed—you didn't choose to struggle.
• When you're accountable for something, think about what you're going to do about it vs. how you're going to attack yourself about it.

Disclaimer: This Podcast, along with Resolvve’s, Unsinkable’s mental health learning, educational content, and storytelling is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Please seek professional help if needed.

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The latest Resolvve blog goes into depth on gaslighting. What is it? Where does the name come from? And how do you spot it?

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Our latest blog helps you figure out how to find the right therapist - including the difference between certifications and questions to ask during your first session.

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This week we wrote about OCD for the blog. You can also read and share on our blog at resolvve.ca/blog/.

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Kelli's six-word story: “Acceptance allows you to move forward.”

Listen in to hear more of Kelli’s story!

“Back then I asked “Why me? Why did this happen to me?” And now, it’s “Why not me?” How can I use my story and telling my story to others, in a way where they can take something away from my recovery, lessons, and insights.”

This week, Mikaela speaks with Kelli Chu, an Adversity & Resilience Keynote Speaker and a Mindset Coach with past clients like TEDx and San Diego State University. She brings her vulnerability, inspiration, and resilience strategies to create a safe and impactful space for listeners. Her motivating and empowering story is a transformative experience for audiences looking to navigate life’s unexpected challenges, improve self-esteem and purpose building, and adapt a more forward-thinking mindset.

In this episode, we reflect on acceptance, the connection between mental & physical healing, communication, owning your authentic self, and much more. Here are a few tidbits of our conversation:

• Dealing with what happens to us (and accepting it as it is) can be the most freeing thing—make space to feel while moving on in a way that helps you heal.
• Mental and physical healing are connected—recovery from a physical injury can take a mental toll (and vice versa).
• It’s easy to become trapped in the victim mentality, allowing anger & guilt to take control. Allow your feelings to evolve!
• Trauma can impact our support system in different ways—sometimes they’re more in the dark than we are. It can be more difficult to verbalize what you need when you’re struggling, and those who care about us the most often ask what we need the most frequently (and we don’t always have an answer). Communication is key, and support doesn’t need to be words!
• Journalling doesn’t need to fit pen & paper (or follow a specific format). It can be any way you move through & with your thoughts.
• Going back in time to an experience and finding ease in coming in and out of that place (seeing it from bird’s eye view rather than re-living it) is the ultimate sign of healing.
• Own your authentic self & your journey!

Connect with Kelli here!

• Instagram: @itskellichu
• Website: kellichu.com
• LinkedIn: @kelli-chu-speaker-coach

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Pamela's six-word story: "Peace. Courage. Proud. Independence. Support. Dream." Listen in to hear more of Pamela's story!

“The best part of our stories is that I tend to pull out stuff in an effort to relate to people close to me, people going through things, people sharing, or people I’m working with, and I think that’s the beautiful thing about life and keeping our stories nice and close to us, is it’s probably going to offer something to someone else, or an opportunity to connect with someone, help a community or help yourself.”

This week, Mikaela speaks with Pamela Fitzgerald. After 15 years in the fitness industry studying and teaching human anatomy, wellness and nutrition, Pamela left a life in the city to fully embrace nature and rediscover her childhood obsession with horses.

Her purpose in this space is to inspire each person to connect deeply to what makes you feel passionate, alive and joyful. She hosts retreats in Canada and Costa Rica so that you can step outside of what you "do" and take time to connect with who you are.

Pamela is a certified yoga instructor with very extensive knowledge of the human body and nervous system. She teaches regular classes and continually explores yoga philosophies to help her and her students live a mindful and joyful life.

Pamela offers experiential learning, wellness, mindfulness, and connection opportunities with our equine friends. Horses offer a very different lens with which to take in this world and she invites you to experience this magic.

In this episode, we reflect on re-defining exercise & movement, horses, being aligned creatively, honouring your courage, building a life soundtrack, and creating safe spaces and so much more! Here are a few tidbits of our conversation:

• There is a difference between keeping the peace and creating peace in our lives.
• Recognize what support looks like from other people & who you want to collaborate on a support system with.
• Build a creative reality that you’re aligned with!
• Just because we’re comfortable sharing our stories doesn’t mean everyone will be comfortable hearing them or ready to receive them.
• It’s okay to not take the path that is expected of us (we don’t need to step into spaces just because others value them).
• Some stories become less prevalent through time, though we will carry them with us forever. You’re not defined by any one story.
• Redefining exercise: movement is an expression of your soul, spirit, and mind.
• There is a difference between physical fitness and using your body as a vehicle to connect to everything you’re thinking & feeling.
• Connect with land, movement, and animals.

Connect with Pamela here!

• Website: pamelafitzgerald.ca
• @pamelafitzgerald.ca on Instagram
• @pamelafitzgeraldwellness on Facebook

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Ryan's six-word story: “Regular person struggles through difficult times.”

Listen in to hear more of Ryan's story!

“One of the biggest things about learning experiences is that they come at the expense of someone else, because that’s how we truly learn. As a man that’s also really important to understand.”

This week, Mikaela speaks with Ryan Forsyth, an award-winning mental health speaker, advocate, fundraiser, an Unsinkable Community Champion, and Founder of The Gentle-Man’s Club. Ryan is passionate about helping men open up about their mental health struggles and helps educate men on the harms of toxic masculinity and the patriarchy.

In this episode, we reflect on exploring mental health as we grow up, unlearning, understanding diverse aspects of mental health (for everyone), healthy masculinity, tough conversations, when to use your voice (and when not to), and how accountability and caring for your mental health coexist. Here are a few tidbits of our conversation:

• Gratitude, privilege, and pain coexist—no one is immune to mental health struggle.
• What we see on TV isn’t always representative of our experience—we can easily self-stigmatize.
• Education & communication go hand-in-hand.
• We must be mindful of the difference between labels & language for experiences.
• When reflecting on our past, consider how the ways we’ve been hurt and ways we’ve hurt others are intertwined. We can both hold ourselves accountable and have compassion for the moments that we may not have had the same info, thoughts, empathy, compassion, and knowledge that we do now.
• You can’t have a conversation about men’s mental health without including women & nonbinary people! Men’s mental health affects the whole world. We’re at a junction where men are being asked to both be accountable and better themselves, which can sometimes clash. Men have a responsibility to heal internally, externally, and communities. Being held accountable isn’t always personal—it’s an opportunity for incredible good.
• Mental health allows us to walk into the necessary difficult conversations.
• With mental illness, you’re not always the best version of yourself—you don’t show up the way you want to, you’re MIA, or you don’t have the capacity to maintain the relationship because you can’t maintain the relationship with yourself. We have to recognize the grace and care that our people have granted us through this.

Connect with Ryan here!

• gentlemansclubcanada.com
• @bigrigredryan01 on Instagram

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Jan's six-word story: “Persevere through the toughest of times.”

Listen in to hear more of Jan's story!

“You are your children’s champion & hero—you are more than enough.”

This week, Mikaela speaks with Jan Stewart, a highly regarded mental health governance expert and advocate. Growing up in New York and moving to Toronto after marrying a Canadian, she was untouched by major adversity throughout her youth and imagined a similar, happy life for her children. In her raw and emotional book Hold on Tight: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness, she candidly describes the shock she and her husband faced when each of their two young children started exhibiting troubling behaviours.

While it took time to find the right doctors, diagnoses and treatments, Jan’s roller coaster journey with the children’s multiple mental health disorders taught her to insist on an integrated partnership approach with all those involved and propelled her to help parents of children with similar challenges. Her book gives readers invaluable insights and advice to become empowered and inspires them to persevere and never give up. It also importantly serves to better educate health care professionals on the parental perspective, as well as families, friends, educators and employers of those affected by these challenges.

While Jan takes great pride in her business career, the majority of which was spent as a senior Partner with the global executive search firm Egon Zehnder, it is her mental health governance experience that has been the most meaningful to her. This includes currently Chairing the Board at Kerry’s Place Autism Services, Canada’s largest autism services provider, and previously serving as Vice Chair at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

She also served on the Parent Advisory Council at Mass General Hospital’s Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Advisory Council of Access Open Minds, the Advisory Board of LIGHTS, and the Board of Directors of the former Ontario OCD Network. In addition, she co-founded the OCD Parent Advisory Group at SickKids Hospital. Jan is a Diamond Life Master in bridge and enjoys genealogy, fitness and dance.

In this episode, we reflect on Jan’s role as a caregiver and parent, how she takes care of herself, the mindset shifts needed in the mental health care system, and more! Here are a few tidbits of our conversation:

• It is okay to get through minute by minute when we’re in survival mode—we don’t always have words in these moments
• Focus on connectivity—better education & providing emotional support amongst one another.
• The patient is the whole family—we need more family-centered approaches in the mental health care system
• Forgive yourself for your mistakes
• When we share our stories, we have to be mindful of how we represent others.
• Hold on tight!

Taking care of the caregivers goes way beyond healthy eating, exercise, and sleep:

• Connect with other parents
• Find humour
• Carve out time for yourself (away from your kids & partner)
• Give your partner & support system the benefit of the doubt

Connect with Jan here! · Website: janstewartauthor.com @janstewartauthor on Instagram & Facebook

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Rohit's six-word story: "Comfort. Resilience. Love. Growth. Learning. Sadness."   

Listen in to hear more of Rohit's story!   

"It’s enough to put something on a piece of paper. Don’t fabricate your words—base them on true, raw, authentic experiences. They’re the best. That’s your story."    This week, Mikaela speaks with Rohit Doel. Rohit is an Autistic Content Creator who creates content speaking and sharing their experiences of what it's like being autistic. He also creates content on his big interests, which are Sonic The Hedgehog and music. He writes film/TV reviews as well.

Rohit is also an advocate for mental health and speaks passionately about mental health, specifically in the Asian community and other marginalized areas about what needs to change. His dream ultimately is to work in film/television either as a scriptwriter or as a development researcher, as he wants to inspire and make people happy through creativity and brilliant storytelling.  

In this episode, we reflect on poetry, music, and making time for ourselves. Here are a few tidbits of our conversation: 

• We can grow with our younger selves.
• The process of crafting poetry as a puzzle/sequence to getting unstuck—a means of sharing your story by connecting words with thoughts & feelings.
• Be creative no matter what! You don’t have to be a “perfect poet.” 
• Explore music’s ability to transport us to memories!
• Celebrate with & seek support from people you care about (and who you want to build good memories with). Be mindful of who you share your story with and who you let into the deeper layers (sometimes this isn't your family/who you’re told it should be, and that's okay).
• Mental health doesn’t discriminate—nobody is immune. 
• It is valid to feel anything you’re feeling right now. 
• Figuring out therapy takes time.

Connect with Rohit here! 

• @neurodivergent_dimension - Instagram 
• @RohitDoel - Twitter 
• @neurodiverse_dimension - TikTok 
• YouTube 

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Episode Notes

Hailey's six-word story: "The outside never captures what shines within." Listen in to hear more of Hailey's story!

"Nothing is ever linear. Just because we hear a story from beginning to what feels like a potential end—it isn't an end. There isn't just 'now I'm good and none of these thoughts will ever come back into my mind'."

This week, Mikaela speaks with Hailey Hechtman, Unsinkable's Executive Director! Hailey is a social impact leader who has dedicated her career to empowering people to see their potential. She has spent 8+ years leading social service organizations and is passionate about mental health, youth wellness and taking a strength-based approach to community development.

Some of her career highlights include founding the Yukon Distress & Support Line, establishing a collective impact strategy for northern disability-serving organizations, creating foundational training for front-line workers in the territories and becoming a thought leader for mental health in the workplace and inclusive hiring.

She holds an honours degree in Psychology from Queen's University and a postgraduate certificate in Nonprofit Management from Simon Fraser University. Hailey is also a contributing writer to KBI Inspire Magazine, a digital publication focused on youth mental health and a coach for the Fora Network for Change Rise on Boards Program.

In this episode, we reflect on body image, how stories move through time, finding joy, awareness of our mental energy consumption, and so much more. Here are a few tidbits of our conversation:

• We interpret our stories differently through time—that's how we grow.
• When we're fixated on certain thoughts, we may miss the memories & joy that we hope to remember years later.
• Sharing your story with a broader audience is powerful, but reading the story of someone close to you can create a deeper sense of connection & understanding—it allows people to get to know you better (they may not have known what you were thinking when they were sitting directly across the table from you).
• Small moments in time can shift us in ways we can't predict!
• Realize where your mental energy is being spent (and seek help to redistribute it if you need to!)
• Let's move away from making assumptions/comments/judgements about body changes—validate who someone is and the person they show up as rather than how they look. 

Connect with Hailey @hailey.hechtman on Instagram!

Disclaimer: This Podcast, along with Resolvve’s & Unsinkable’s mental health learning, educational content, and storytelling is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca or weareunsinkable.com to get the support you need. Mikaela offers 1:1 peer support here.

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Angelica's six-word stories: "Learning to live with clinical depression" + "Overcoming adversity and finding my purpose"****

Listen in to hear more of Angelica's story!

"If you're going through a difficult time right now, it is going to end eventually. The sun will come again."

This week, Mikaela speaks with Angelica Galluzzo, a mental health advocate, TEDx Speaker, safeTALK Trainer, and Podcast Host of The Revolutionized Mind. After battling depression and suicidal ideation for many years, she became passionate about making an impact, using her voice to create positive change, and normalizing the struggles that many of us go through. Angelica graduated with an Honors Specialization in Psychology at Western University and has also completed her safeTALK, ASIST, and Mental Health First Aid certifications.

She currently works full-time for Jack.org, a national charity that focuses on improving youth mental health and dismantling barriers such as stigma, access to resources, and more. Additionally, Angelica spent fifteen years of her life as an elite athlete. Her most notable achievements include winning two provincial championships, two national championships, and earning a scholarship to a Division 1 school in the United States. Through this experience, she has learned a great deal about dealing with adversity, working with others, and extending these lessons to life outside of sport. She loves the quote, "There is always a light at the end of the tunnel, even if you can't see it right now!"

In this episode, we reflect on the ebbs and flows of your mental health journey, appreciating a moment, making space for anger, and unpack the notion of "everything happens for a reason." Here are a few tidbits of our conversation:

• Some days are okay, some aren't, and sometimes we need to take a step back—especially as advocates & storytellers!
• Appreciate a moment while you're in it—gratitude & pain coexist.
• It is okay to feel anger alongside finding joy!
• Look at yourself as a person first—balance is important when our identities are so dynamic.
• Don't forget the impact you have and who your words reach!
• Let other people see you (and what you're going through).

Connect with Angelica:

• Socials: @therevolutionizedmind (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube)

Disclaimer: This Podcast, along with Resolvve’s & Unsinkable’s mental health learning, educational content, and storytelling is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca or weareunsinkable.com to get the support you need. Mikaela offers 1:1 peer support here.

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Mikaela's six-word story: "I still f***ing fight every day."

Listen in to hear more of Mikaela's message. 

"If there is a story there, your pain doesn't end when you choose to give it words."

This week, Mikaela checks in with you and herself. She shares thoughts about not being okay right now, telling the truth, and the intricacies of stories and storytelling.

Disclaimer: This Podcast, along with Resolvve’s & Unsinkable’s mental health learning, educational content, and storytelling is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca or weareunsinkable.com to get the support you need. Mikaela offers 1:1 peer support here.

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Steven's six-word story: "Pushing forward even though it's hard" Listen in to hear more of Steven's powerful words!

"We were meant to heal in order to connect. That's how I want to present myself to the world—as someone who believes that. In everything I do, I try my best to understand that I'm dealing with a person at the end of the day, no matter what's going on and that I'm respecting them as people first and foremost because it's what I want."

This week, Mikaela speaks with Steven Sharpe Jr., a Brooklyn-based style and wellness content creator. As a proud Afro-Latino, plant father of 20, and a member of the LGBTQ community, Steven uses his platform to exemplify "rest over hustle”—it means understanding that prioritizing rest, wellness, and caring for one’s mental health is just as important as working hard and achieving success. With this as the cornerstone of his work, he’s been able to lend his voice to many mental health initiatives. Through his content work, he’s been fortunate to partner with incredibly successful businesses—including Meta, Target, Primark, and more. His ability to meld a brand’s priorities and his creative perspective into thoughtful media has allowed him to be a reliable creator; and his authenticity and integrity on his public platform has garnered trust with his online community. 

In this fun episode, we reflect on healing, telling the truth of our stories, embracing the soft life, prioritizing rest, and so much more. Here are just a few tidbits of our conversation:

• Reflect on your healing—see where you never allowed yourself to break.
• Remember when you dreamed of the pieces of your life you're living and worked hard for!
• Language is essential in storytelling—for our own & others' stories. There is value in how we say things!
• You don't have to sacrifice your well-being to be successful.
• People are valuable. You never have to justify your worth. Feeling safe is not a privilege it's a right. 
• Don't be afraid to ask for things—say yes to what you like & no to what isn't beneficial.
• You will achieve so much more if you put your phone down, close your laptop, and make time for rest!
• Don't be afraid of owing people things—accept support! Ask for clarity if you're not sure if the person wants something in return. When you give people a chance to support you, they will surprise you!

Connect with Steven:

• Socials: IG & TT @stevensharpejr
• Websites: stevensharpejr.com (personal); nobiuscreative.com (business); stevensharpejr.myportfolio.com (portfolio)

Disclaimer: This Podcast, along with Resolvve’s & Unsinkable’s mental health learning, educational content, and storytelling is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca or weareunsinkable.com to get the support you need. Mikaela offers 1:1 peer support here.

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Lauren's six-word story: "Turning pain into passion and purpose." Listen in to hear more of Lauren's beautiful words. This is a heart-filled episode!

"So let us embrace our grief with all its pain and all its relief. Grief is a reminder that love never dies and that our loved ones are forever by our side."

This week, Mikaela speaks with Lauren Urie, the wonder behind Resolvve's social media! Lauren is a social worker, MSW candidate, and the creator of The Advocacy For Change Project on Instagram. Alongside her lived experience with trauma and mental illness, she's passionate about inclusive mental health education and developing meaningful relationships in her local and online community. In February 2021, she started an Instagram page in hopes of building mental health awareness and a safe space where people feel less alone.

In this episode, we explore self-disclosure as a social worker, relationships with our therapists, and the depth of our connection with pets. Lauren also reads us an original poem about grief. Here are just a few tidbits of our conversation:

• A meaningful symmetry of experiences between client & therapist can be a valuable part of therapy.
• Grief & anticipatory death anxiety—we don't 'get over' these, we continue to grow around them.
• Unconditional love from animals.
• Poetry as the perfect homemade gift!
• Speaking our stories out loud allows us to be more compassionate with ourselves.
• Birthdays aren't always happy—sometimes they're painful.
• Unpacking social work: storytelling as the space between policy & mental health care.

Disclaimer: This Podcast, along with Resolvve’s & Unsinkable’s mental health learning, educational content, and storytelling is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca or weareunsinkable.com to get the support you need. Mikaela offers 1:1 peer support here.

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We are happy to present the first episode of our sister podcast, Bridging the Waves.

"I am not about myself...the more stories you're a part of that are BIG and transcend yourself—that you get to participate in—the more rich life is in context."

This week, Mikaela speaks with Noah Tile, co-founder of Resolvve, about why this podcast is needed now (and from Unsinkable & Resolvve in particular). We explore Noah's incredible six-word story, rooted in Jewish culture & religion, transcendence of time and space, and choosing to see our lives as part of the stories in our past, present, and future. Here are just a few tidbits of our conversation:

• Your ideas and wisdom are offspring.
• What does collecting living memories look like?
• It's dangerous not to care what people think—expand your celebration of someone beyond praise! 
• Youth may tell their stories differently (and older doesn't necessarily mean wiser).
• We are living in a crisis of meaning—root yourself in something slower, other than 2023 (stories!).

Noah's six (or seven) word story: "You need meaning. You need to matter." 

Listen in to hear more of Noah's wise words. This episode is a game-changer!

Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve.

Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca to get the support you need.

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On this week's blog, Camilla Eidelshtein discusses how long it takes to see a psychiatrist and how Resolvve may be able to speed up the process. You can read the full post at www.resolvve.ca/blog/.

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This week we bring you the trailer from our sister podcast Bridging the Waves. Stay tuned for new episodes coming each Thursday through our feed. You can also subscribe to that podcast by searching for Bridging the Waves wherever you listen to podcasts.

Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve.

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We round out our ADHD blogs by discussing treatment and therapy.

Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve.

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The latest Resolvve blogpost discusses the ways that ADHD affects executive function and emotional regulation.

Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve.

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This week's Resolvve blog is all about ADHD!

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We kick off the podcast this week with an episode about individual peer support. Having a one-on-one session with a peer is perfect for closing the loop in between therapy sessions. As always, you can also find a written version on the Resolvve blog.

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This week on the Resolvve Blog we talk about dissociation, dissociative disorders, and coping with trauma.

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For this week's blog, Hayley Carr wrote about some important tips that can help you choose a career.

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On this week's episode, Noah speaks with Shaley Hoogendoorn about living with bipolar disroder.****

Shaley is a mental health advocate, content creator and speaker who is dismantling the stigma around bipolar disorder. Shaley currently hosts the ‘This Is Bipolar’ podcast, a place where those living with bipolar disorder share their lived experience. She has contributed to publications for Sanctuary Ministries, Psych Central and BP Hope magazine. She hosted “Sisters in Mental Illness”, a series interviewing women living with mental illnesses at SheLoves Magazine.

She also facilitated a weekly gathering called “Wired” that educated and supported folks with mental illnesses. Shaley’s greatest hope is help others who are struggling to feel less alone. You can connect with Shaley on Instagram & TikTok @this.is.bipolar.

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This week's blog post is about anxiety is written by Mathieu Taddeo.

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This week, Noah speaks with a youth advocate and educator named Donovan Taylor Hall that wants to help kids build self-determination, while also learning skills to take care of themselves mentally and emotionally.

Although his work started with kids, he has recently shifted into helping adults take care of themselves using the same skills and inner child work. Donovan's goal is to help kids of all ages build a positive relationship with themselves. He teaches his self skills curriculum through youth online coaching, professional speaking, video game streaming, and self-development online content. He has been featured on the Today Show, NowThis and several podcasts to talk about the importance of positive youth development.

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This week, we answer the question "What is art therapy?". You can find more blog posts on this feed or on our blog.

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This week, Noah speaks with mental health advocate Angelica Galluzzo about her own journey with depression and suicidal ideation, and how she shares her story to promote positive change.

About Angelica Galluzzo Galluzzo is a mental health advocate, TEDx Speaker, and Podcast Host of The Revolutionized Mind. After battling depression and suicidal ideation for many years, she became passionate about making an impact, using her voice to create positive change, and normalizing the struggles that many of us go through. Angelica graduated with an Honors Specialization in Psychology at Western University and has also completed her safeTALK, ASIST, and Mental Health First Aid certifications. She currently works full-time for Jack.org, a national charity that focuses on improving youth mental health and dismantling barriers such as stigma, access to resources, and more.

Additionally, Angelica spent fifteen years of her life as an elite athlete. Her most notable achievements include winning two provincial championships, two national championships, and earning a scholarship to a Division 1 school in the United States. Through this experience, she has learned a great deal about dealing with adversity, working with others, and extending these lessons to life outside of sport. She loves the quote, "There is always a light at the end of the tunnel, even if you can't see it right now!"

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What is mindfulness? This week's blog goes over the potential benefits of the practice. As always, you can read more on our website at resolvve.ca/blog/

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Noah speaks with Dr. Dan Wendler about learning important communication skills when you're neurodivergent.

Wendler is a best-selling author, nationally recognized keynote speaker, and clinical psychologist. He taught himself social skills as a way of overcoming the social challenges of his Asperger’s diagnosis, and founded ImproveYourSocialSkills.com to help others achieve social success too. He went on to write two books (Improve Your Social Skills and Level Up Your Social Life), speak at TEDx twice, and earn a doctorate in clinical psychology. Today, he uses his autistic insight and psychological training to help create a world where everyone can find a place to belong. Connect with him at DanielWendler.com

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Hello fellow listeners and happy Monday! Today we have a guest blog about strategies to beat procrastination written by Mathieu Taddeo. Interested in reading more? Check out the blog.

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This week Noah speaks with Luke Coles about meandering career paths and the importance of educators supporting their students.

Coles is a Toronto-based educator who founded THRIVE in 2021. His career in education has spanned over 30 years, and he has been a high-performance tennis coach, a teacher and Vice Principal at The Sterling Hall School, and Founding Principal of Blyth Academy Lawrence Park. Now a Guidance specialist and Life Coach, Luke works with students and young professionals, and has a growing team of coaches, social workers, teachers and psychotherapists contributing to, and delivering, the Thrive experience.

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On this week's blog, Hayley Carr talks about three ways to boost your mental health and focus. You can read this and other blog posts over on our website: www.resolvve.ca/blog/

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What happens when you share your mental health with the world? Both the good and the bad.

This week Noah speaks to Bayley Levy, the creator behind @itsbayleysworld about her mental health journey. Currently, she's a UofT student in the Master of Science in Community Health, specializing in Addictions and Mental Health.

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This week, Noah speaks with Charlotte Grimmel, better known as the Mind Friend on Instagram about personal growth and finding purpose in life.

Charlotte is a social & business psychologist (MSc.) and accredited professional coach. She helps people all over the world to develop their mindset and confidence, so they can lead with purpose and make a meaningful impact. Her approach is integrative, but it is rooted in positive psychology, behavioral science and mindfulness. Charlotte is the creator of the popular Instagram page @themindfriend, where she shares free psychoeducation, self-development tools and career tips.

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This week on the podcast, Noah speaks with Alexandra Reynolds about obsessive compulsive disorder.

Alexandra has been living with OCD since the age of 6, but was unable to access appropriate diagnosis and treatment until the age of 35. A first-generation Puerto Rican, she graduated from Kennesaw State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology and turned her passion for mental health and advocacy into a challenging and rewarding career as a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate serving the Latinx and immigrant populations. Alexandra lives with the additional diagnoses of Major Depression and Complex PTSD and is passionate about breaking the stigma around mental illness and using her lived experience to help others. This is reflected both in her role as an IOCD Advocate and her personal OCD Instagram @alexandraisobsessed. She believes culture and community are important intersections in mental health and is dedicated to advocating from a place of inclusivity, compassion and learning.

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This week, Simon discusses some unhelpful mental health platitudes and what you can say instead if a friend or loved one opens up to you about their problems.

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This week, Noah speaks with Dr. Michael J Greenberg. Michael is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of OCD, and the director of OCD Associates, a practice specializing in Rumination-Focused ERP.

Much of his work has focused on the cognitive-behavioral treatment of compulsive rumination, which he believes to be the cornerstone of all OCD and anxiety disorders.

He has spent the past few years exploring psychoanalytic perspectives on OCD in order to better understand and treat the emotional and relational roots of this disorder. His current work focuses on integrating cognitive-behavioral and psychoanalytic treatments for OCD, to craft an integrative approach that addresses not only symptoms, but also the underlying dynamics that generate these symptoms in the first place.

You can also watch the interview on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@resolvvementalhealth

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In this episode, we discuss the health impact of procrastination. You can read a version of this on our blog at www.resolvve.ca/blog.

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This week on the Resolvve podcast, Simon speaks with Roger Stark and Betsy Hill.

They are educators that have developed BrainWare, an evidence-based cognitive skills training platform for students. They believe that helping parents understand how their kids learn, and practice building up their cognitive skills will reduce anxiety and stress at home as well.

Their new book, _Your Child Learns Differently, Now What? _will be released in February. You can pre-order a copy here.

More about BrainWare: https://mybrainware.com/

Roger Stark is CEO of BrainWare Learning Company. Over the past fifteen years, he has championed efforts to bring comprehensive cognitive skills training and cognitive assessment within reach of everyone. He led the team that developed BrainWare SAFARI, now the most researched comprehensive, integrated cognitive training tool delivered online in the world. He was the first person ever invited to deliver a joint Congressional briefing on Neuroscience in the Classroom.

Besty Hill is the mother of three boys and an award-winning educator. She studied the neuroscience of learning with Dr. Patricia Wolfe and other pioneers in the field, coining the term neuroeducator. She is former chair of the board of trustees at Chicago State University and teaches strategic thinking at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management where she received a Contribution to Learning Excellence Award. She received a Nepris Trailblazer Award for sharing her knowledge, skills and passion for the neuroscience of learning in classrooms around the U.S.  

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This week, Noah speaks with Breanna Pizzuto (she/her).****

Born and raised in Ottawa, Breanna has degrees from the University of Ottawa in Health Sciences and Psychology. Breanna has experience working various jobs in the healthcare and social services fields, including addictions, supportive housing and crisis intervention. With a strong passion for helping others and an interest in breaking down stigma surrounding mental health and suicide, Breanna started Talk Tools in 2018.

Breanna is a Silver Level LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST) trainer as well as an instructor of St. John Ambulance’s “Mental Health and Wellness in the Workplace” course. She is also an instructor of LifeLine Workshops’ “Assessing Suicide in Kids” (ASK). Breanna is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and is currently working towards completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University. She will be adding a private practice to Talk Tools in summer 2023.

You can get in touch with her here: Web: www.talktoolstraining.com Email: info@talktoolstraining.com

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Hope you're doing well this holiday season. Our latest blog post focuses on why some people may not be feeling all that festive. Learn all about the holiday blues here.

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On this week's episode, Noah speaks with life coach Fabienne Gordon about the importance of finding your mission in life.

Fabienne Gordon (Fab) is an ICF-certified life coach & founder of Lifework. She founded lifework in 2018 in hopes to normalize feeling “good but also sort of kind of lost” and to make the power of future-oriented self-work (life coaching) more known and viable as an alternative to therapy.

Through 1:1 coaching, workshops and wellness challenges, Fabienne coaches anyone who is ready and eager to “do the work” on themselves. Usually, people know the feeling they want to shift out of but they don’t know HOW. That’s where Fab comes in. She helps you figure out how to do it and holds you accountable for making it happen. When Fabienne is not coaching, she is either walking Charlie - her golden retriever, forcing her husband to wake up too early to catch a sunrise, enjoying some wine and good food with friends and family, climbing a mountain or doing her morning ritual.

Links: dolifework.com Instagram: @dolifework Email: Fabiennegordon.impact@gmail.com Subscribe to her journal prompts: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/6328b9d4d3498568abf5e994

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We read our latest blog post - this one is about setting up healthy boundaries!

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On this week's episode of the Resolvve podcast, Noah speaks with Vera Cheng (she/her), a registered social worker, psychotherapist, consultant, media expert and founder of Talk Therapy with Vera. 

Vera identifies as a 1.5-generation Chinese Canadian and has openly shared the obstacles she has overcome in life that allowed her to accept and challenge herself. These experiences have allowed her to cultivate herself as a therapist and support individuals who have had similar challenges.   Vera has over 15 years of clinical experience working in community and medical settings with a diverse population ranging from teens to seniors.  She collaborates and empathizes with individuals to help bolster their self-awareness to make positive and goal-directed changes in their life.  It enables them to feel empowered, recognizes their strengths, and establishes a greater sense of self-compassion.

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Have you been feeling productivity guilt? Check out our latest blog post for tips and strategies for managing it here.

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This week, Noah speaks to our guest Dr. Lauren Cook about navigating anxiety and life's uncertainties as a student.

Dr. Lauren Cook is a Clinical Psychologist, company consultant, author, and speaker. With a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and her Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy, she works with both groups and individuals to help reduce anxiety and improve personal and professional outcomes. She integrates evidence-based tools from a systems lens and she speaks internationally, both in-person and virtually. You can connect with Dr. Lauren through Tik Tok, Instagram, her Brain Health Book Club, and through her podcast, The Boardroom Brain. Stay tuned for Dr. Lauren’s latest book—set to hit the shelves in Fall 2023.

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This week Noah speaks with Taylor Jacobson, the creator of Focus Mate, a tool that allows for virtual coworking and accountability.

More on Taylor: Jacobson is the Founder & CEO of Focusmate (www.focusmate.com), a virtual coworking community with a mission to help everyone do their best work. Thousands of people in 193 countries worldwide sit side-by-side, via video, to keep each other company, cheer each other on, and hold one another accountable. Taylor has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, NPR, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek, and many more.

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This week we talk everything OCD! In our blog, we answer common questions about shame and common compulsions.

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On this week's episode, Simon speaks Safia Abdulle (@sabdulle_) - a therapist and professor interested in studying the connections between race and mental health care. Simon talks with her about her work within mental health as well as why she chose to pursue this path.

Safia is a 1st generation immigrant-settler, and Somali-Canadian woman. Safia is a Registered Social Worker with a Masters’ degree in Social Work, and a BA in Developmental Psychology. Additionally, Safia is currently earning her PhD in Social Work at York University. Safia currently works as a Clinical Social Worker/Therapist at a counselling agency for Black and racialized people, while also working as a Professor teaching courses on community mental health. Safia’s research and career interests include anti-oppressive, anti-racist social work practice; poverty reduction; neurodiversity; the impacts of intersectionality on mental health; and the liberation of marginalized populations.

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On this week's episode, Simon interviews Stacy-Ann Buchanan (@stacyannbuchanan). 

Buchanan's impact, entrepreneurial work ethic and achievements have led her to being selected as one of the 100 Black Women to Watch in Canada, one of the 150 Black Women Making Canada Better, one of the 150 Leading Canadians for Mental Health and landing a TEDx Talk. 

The self-directed and self-funded award winning documentary, The Blind Stigma, made Canadian history when it debuted as the first documentary produced in Canada that takes an in-depth look at how mental health is perceived within the Black community, and cemented Buchanan as a documentary film maker.  As a recognized brand, The Blind Stigma has since branched out into a podcast that continues to explore such stigmas, dissect the multiple factors that aid towards mental illness in the Black communities and provides a safe space for stories to be heard. 

Her body of work has firmly planted her career on disrupting systemic anti-Black racism by taking holistic approaches to dismantle the stigmas of how mental health is constructed. Through raising awareness, directing positive dialogues to fuel resources, and orchestrating safe, constructive spaces for Black voices to be amplified, Stacy-Ann Buchanan’s ultimate objective is to take back the Black narrative.

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In our latest blog post, Simon discusses the importance of understanding the biology of stress and learning to develop your own strategies to manage it.

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In this week's episode, Noah speaks with Dov Benyaacov-Kurtzman.****

Dov is a psychotherapist and co-founder of Eden Wellstyle, with a wealth of training and experience in several disciplines. His work shows us that valued action, small or big, can bring us together and help healing.

Dov merited a private audience with HRH Prince William in recognition for the contribution of his charity organization with their psycho-trauma work in the UK after a series of terror attacks and man-made disasters.

His cutting-edge 6-pronged approach to cognitive psychological first aid teaches us how to bring help quickly and effectively to those affected by psychological shock from helplessness to effective functioning.

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This week, one of our content writers Irina Neagu wrote about going back to school for the Resolvve Blog.

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This week, Simon speaks with Dr. Daniel Almeida.

Content warning: this episode features discussions about abuse, trauma, suicidal ideation and suicide.

He is a neuroscientist at the Douglas Research Center who studies the links between childhood abuse, trauma and suicide.

He has published his research in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is also active in educating others about mental health. He's been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science (2020), and won the NIMH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience award in 2022. You can follow and learn more about his work on his Instagram (@postmortemphd).

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Our blogs our back! This week, we wrote about the different types of mental health care professionals. Read more on our blog!

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Marlee (@marleeliss) is a sensual reclamation coach, award-winning speaker, author and restorative justice advocate. Marlee made history in the justice system when her sexual assault case became the 1st in North America to conclude with restorative justice through the courts. 

We previously interviewed her lovely mother Barbie, which you can find in one of our previous episode. In this episode, we learn from Marlee about her side of this landmark case that opens up new vistas beyond the traditional criminal justice system. 

Along the way, she teaches us about the healing that can come from sincere, remorseful conversation and having our voices heard. We learn about seeing the humanity of other people and how to start the process of forgiving. This refreshing attitude allows us to see the complexity of all human beings without rushing to dismiss and ignore those who see differently than we do.

We hope you learn something meaningful from her story. 

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On this week's podcast Noah speaks with Mikaela Brewer about her mental health journey and advocacy.

Content warning: this episode contains talk about suicide.

About: Mikaela is an author, speaker, researcher, mental health advocate and activist. She has played basketball for Team Canada and Stanford University where she graduated with a B.S. in Human Biology and a Notation in Science Communication in 2020. As a multi-disciplinary writer & researcher, Mikaela has published poetry, fiction, neuroscience & sport psychology research, news, features, and op-eds for a variety of platforms, journals, and organizations. Mikaela is passionate about exploring the intersection of science and storytelling as it relates to mental health. She is currently the Head of Content & Research at Timeout and author of the science fiction book The Sifting Project.

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We're trying something a little bit different - today Simon suggests movies with good depictions of mental health issues.

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On this week's interview, Simon speaks with Johnny Cassels, an academic tutor that helps students reframe their school experiences and reach their full potential.

Johnny started tutoring during his years of junior hockey for the simple reason that he liked explaining things to people, deriving a genuine sense of emotional satisfaction from helping people learn. He believes in introducing levity and emphasizing accountability to help students succeed in school.

Learn more here: https://www.casselstutoring.com/

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This week's blog post helps you identify why you might be struggling in classes. For more educational content, check out the rest of our podcasts and blogs.

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On our newest podcast episode, Noah speaks with Ryan Forsyth about his mental health advocacy centered on toxic masculinity. They discuss how the intersection of identity and social media can also influence our judgments of others.

Mini Bio: Ryan Forsyth is an award-winning mental health speaker and advocate, host of the Life in Red Podcast, an Unsinkable Community Champion, and promotions coordinator for JUMP! 106.9 and boom 99.7. He is a music geek and sports fanatic who’s passionate about helping people open up about their mental health and redefining a healthier version of masculinity.

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In the latest Resolvve blog, we discuss anxiety and how to treat it. Read more at www.resolvve.ca/blog/.

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On this week's podcast, Simon speaks with Stewart Reynolds, better known as Brittlestar or "The Internet's Favourite Dad." His comedic and family-friendly videos have been seen more than 600 MILLION times on various platforms. He's gotten more famous over the pandemic with his relatable and entertaining content. Brittlestar provides his insights into mental health, life during the pandemic and learning to not beat yourself up.

More on Brittlestar:

Stewart Reynold's been invited to the White House and has provided commentary for Global National, starred as a panelist on CTV National News and collaborates with multiple celebrities including Ryan Reynolds. Above all else, he is a dad living in Canadian suburbia.

Find him at: www.brittlestar.com @brittlestar pretty much everywhere else

Breathing exercises: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/in-practice/201607/breathing-techniques-anxiety

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On our newest blog, we discuss some strategies for talking with your parents about your mental health.

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In this week's episode, Noah speaks with the ever-inspirational Dave Matthew Boddy.

Diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, dysthymia, misophonia, anxiety, and 15 concussions, he has lived a life of adaptation, resiliency, and determination.

He is a speaker, former youth mentor, Unsinkable Community Champion, international selling co-author, Variety Gamer who is sponsored by Lightstream, and a podcast producer and director focused on mental health advocacy through gaming and content creation. He was a featured gamer with "Marvel's Avengers!"

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Content warning: This episode will contain discussions about sexual assault.

On this week's podcast, Noah interviews Barbie Liss who is a health coach and also an advocate for restorative justice. She brings awareness to the challenges of secondary trauma, through her personal story of healing after her daughter was raped, and the restorative justice outcome of their case, making history in the justice system. Her coaching work has guided hundreds of women to claim voice, value and guidance to help women shed the shame associated with aging.

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This week's blog focuses on practical strategies that will help you say no. Read more on our official blog.

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In this week’s episode, Katy Albert teaches us about the importance of living with your values and how it can lead to a life of greater meaning and emotional stability. She also happens to be Noah’s brother!

About Katy:

Katy is an educator and board certified behaviour analyst (BCBA) supporting children and families in private practice. She is passionate about supporting children and their families with everything from everyday growing pains to behavioural challenges and mental health. A life long learner with a love of teaching, Katy trains parents, educators and mental health professionals as a speaker and course facilitator.

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Simon tackles the age-old question in his latest blog post entitled "Do I Need Therapy." You can read the blog and our other musings here.

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This week, Simon speaks with Rebecca Brown, BSW, MSW, RSW. She works with medical students and other professionals, helping them deal with stress and trauma. As a registered equine psychotherapist, she also conducts sessions with horses. Learn about the fascinating science and get some tips for becoming more mindful and tapping into your inner horse.

You can find Rebecca Brown through her website: https://rebeccabrown.ca/ Her new book about her personal journey with trauma is out now in Amazon, Chapters and anywhere else you buy books.

We hope you enjoy this conversation and take away something useful for your own mental health.

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This week, Noah discusses his latest blog post on motivation and the practical steps you can take to commit to your goals. You can read more about it on our blog.

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Noah speaks with Leanne Matlow, a therapist who specializes in anxiety about mental health empowerment and what parents can do to keep the conversation going with their children. She is also the founder and organizer of an annual symposium called Mental Health Empowerment Day.

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"People overcome so many barriers in their lives. It is astounding how capable people are. It is about having that focus about where you want to go and then if a person is determined, usually they can make it happen."

On this week's episode of the Resolvve podcast, Noah speaks with Jane Rendely, career counselor extraordinaire about finding a meaningful #career. Learn about the importance of identifying your skills and values so that you can find the right path for you!

Jane is a Career Management and Educational Consultant in private practice in Toronto. Jane has over thirty years of professional experience as a Career Management Consultant, Trainer, Psycho-Educational Consultant, Transition Coach and Counsellor.

Her expertise includes working with youth, adults, families, groups and organizations in transition. She is especially gifted at empowering individuals to take action at career, employment and educational crossroads in order to reach their potential. Jane has assisted thousands of clients to make satisfying career and employment decisions through a personalized proactive model both in person and over zoom. She works with people of all ages - from high school through to Graduate and Professional training - keeping abreast of university and community college programs.

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Our first blog post of 2022 goes through some of the biggest myths about depression. You can find the written version on our blog.

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In this episode, Simon speaks with Dr. Jen Polk about careers after academia. Jen is a career coach for PhDs and the founder of From PhD to Life. You can find her on Twitter @FromPhDtoLife for more fantastic content and pictures of her cat.

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You can find the full written version of the blog, and more content here.

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Noah speaks with Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW and they discuss strategies for managing mental health.

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In this interview episode, Simon talks with Ariana Cahn about managing your mental health during grad school and setting healthy boundaries.

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In this blog episode, Noah talks about gratitude and becoming a more thankful person. You can also read the blog in written form here.

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Our latest blog post discusses what you should expect from your very first therapy session. You can read it here.

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In this episode, Noah speaks with Clinical Psychologist Dr. Marlene Taube-Schiff, about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and intrusive thoughts.

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This blog is also available on our website in written format here.

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Noah discusses a powerful way to build self-confidence. You can check out all this information in written form on our blog.

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You can find the full text of this episode on our official Blog.

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Check out our latest blog post to get a kickstart on the writing project you've been procrastinating.

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In this episode, we read through our fifth blog post. You can access the content here.

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In this episode, we read through our fourth blog post. You can access the content here.

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In this episode, we read through our third blog post. You can access the content here.

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In this episode, we read through our second blog post. You can access the content here.

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In this episode, we read through our first blog post. You can access the content here.

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