“My deep exploration of forgiveness began in a prison centre with me on one side of the glass and my husband at the time, Jason, on the other.”

After the traumatizing public experience of her first husband’s conviction as a sex offender, Shannon thought she’d never feel joy or be whole again.

By the time Sara was six, she had lived through war, a revolution, and an uprooting from her life in Iran to move to the other side of the world with her family.

Naturally, it wasn’t easy to transition from a collectivist culture to a more individualistic one in Canada. And, as a first-generation immigrant and the eldest child, Sara also had to grow up quickly, helping her parents navigate the systems and intricacies of starting over in a new country.

What are the key ingredients of your wellness recipe for the season ahead?

In this special holiday episode, Cindy inspires us to reflect on ways to manage expectations and make the season not only bright, but healthy and sustainable, too.

While overseas on a business trip, Greg Scollon received some shocking news: that he no longer had a job at Shaw Communications, the company he’d helped build and grow for 17 years.

Following one of the biggest blindsides of his career, Greg began the journey of spent working through the messy stages associated with the loss of a career he loved, but also a sense of identity and purpose.

Each of us were born with immeasurable potential, capable of authoring the magical story of our lives.

At some point, though, our dreaming is inevitably interrupted by our own self-limiting beliefs, which distract us from living the lives we imagined for ourselves.

“One Breath at a Time.”

When a dear friend shared this nugget of wisdom with Heather, she was preparing for one of the most frightening experiences of her life: giving birth to her son while compromised by COVID-19.

As one of the first maternal COVID-19 cases in her city, Heather’s childbirth was nothing like she expected.

Warning: Some of the content in this episode may be too descriptive for young children.

When Paul went to work on his son’s sixteenth birthday, he didn’t expect his life to change forever. But it did.

That day, a terrifying accident at his workplace left him with multiple injuries, failing organs, long-term pain and disabilities.

Even the most insightful and self-aware people sometimes struggle to let go of coping mechanisms that keep us stuck.

This was the reality for Amy Guerrero, whose untreated trauma and loss as a child led her down a painful path of addiction and other self-sabotaging behaviours.

The very essence of resilience is in one’s ability to bend, bounce back and respond to adversity with a sense of hope. As humans, we have an amazing capacity to overcome challenges and stretch ourselves. In this episode we are highlighting a beautiful example of what is possible when we set a goal, have the tenacity to see it through and courage to face obstacles en route.

Were you taught to not show your real self? To hide how you really feel?

As a psychologist, Anna knew there was another way beyond the self-protective stoicism that was normalized while growing up in Ukraine, a former USSR country.

In this complex political environment, Anna became a pioneer in mental health practice in Ukraine. She began shifting the conversation about vulnerability and destigmatizing the universal human need to express our emotions—all against the backdrop of war and conflict.