Lived Experience
Seeing People, Not Problems
How compassionate health care can alter the trajectories of people who use substances.
Amber St. Louis
Language Matters
Why We Use “Substance Use Health”
Putting substance use on a spectrum creates a space for more open conversations about safer, healthier, more manageable consumption.
Language Matters
From condemnation to compassion
The shift away from saying “committing suicide” goes beyond semantics.
Lived Experience
Pace, Plan, and Prioritize: One Woman’s Story on Coping with Long Covid
Since there’s no cure, those affected must work to manage their symptoms. An innovative hospital program takes an interdisciplinary approach encompassing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial care.
Language Matters
Meditations on motherhood, mental illness, and resiliency
It’s easy to make assumptions about people based on their academic accomplishments, professional successes, or philanthropic contributions. But sometimes if you pull back the curtain, you discover untold depths and hardships that reveal a more valuable story than a five-sentence biography can.
A tale of two illnesses
Dr. Manon Charbonneau remembers the day vividly, though she’d rather forget it.
“So that’s it, then — cancer,” she recalls saying in disbelief with her eyes locked on the digital images of her mammogram. The radiologist confirmed the diagnosis, and in a moment her world was “completely dismantled.”
More than skin deep
“I’m so glad you’re Black.”
That’s the first thing Donna Richards hears from her new client. But as one of the few African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) clinicians working in the client’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) — and one of the few ACB psychotherapists in Canada — she hears it a lot.