A Resilience Project

Send us Fan Mail As a parent does it feel like you have been through one of the longest, most unpredictable storms of your life? On any given day parenting can invite some of the most complex, messy, and beautiful moments of our lives.  When you are tired and doing your best to steer the ship of family life, it can be comforting to know you are not alone.  In this episode we are throwing you a lif...

Send us Fan Mail When Carmel became a single parent with a one-year-old son, it was as if her world came crashing down. Figuring out what to do next felt daunting—impossible, even. What she didn’t know then is how much her divorce would catalyze growth and shape a beautiful new future. And as she gradually rebuilt her life, taking one small action at a time, Carmel’s true purpose emerged. Today, C...

Send us Fan Mail Surviving sexual assault, attempted suicide, financial loss, and a failed arranged marriage is one thing. Actively processing all that pain is another. Poonam Bhuchar is the first to admit the healing journey isn’t always easy. But for her, it’s been revolutionary in reclaiming her power and living a fully connected life filled with joy, even in the wake of trauma. In this episode...

Send us Fan Mail Taking a deep breath. Naming your feelings. Reframing failure as feedback. As simple as these practices may sound, look out! They might just change your life. In this episode, Dr. Kelly Kent and Hayden Lee offer us transformative, neuroscience-backed tools to manage our emotions, hack our brains, and build our resilience. As the co-founders of Master Mind Institute, Dr. Kelly and...

Send us Fan Mail Growing up in small town on Vancouver Island, all Melanie wanted to do was play soccer. She had the skill, the passion, the tenacity. There was only one problem—she wasn’t allowed to play on the boys’ soccer team. By the age of 10, Melanie became an advocate for equal opportunity in soccer. She fought hard to play the sport she loved—and won. After years of honing her skills, she...

Send us Fan Mail Early on in his psychology career, Dr. Raphael Rose learned that over 90% of people who experience trauma don’t develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. This discovery prompted a lifelong curiosity: what can be learned from these trauma survivors? Today, Dr. Rose continues his journey as a clinical psychologist and researcher based in Los Angeles, specializing in anxiety, mood disor...

Send us Fan Mail Nobody wants to live in fear. But for Rosie, it was the only way she knew how to survive after enduring the hardest year of her life. First came her cancer diagnosis. Then, her mom’s dementia worsened to the point that Rosie needed to immediately transition her into an assisted living facility. And just as life seemed like it would start to settle, Rosie’s healthy 58-year-old brot...

Send us Fan Mail As a child, the odds of doing something extraordinary with his life weren’t in Kenneth’s favour.  Born out of wedlock, Kenneth grew up without a father in an impoverished, segregated southern US community. As a child from a single-parent household, he was immediately type casted as “at-risk” once he started school. But despite the obstacles, Kenneth was determined to make his moth...

Send us Fan Mail When Christina graduated from college with high honours, she had even higher hopes about her future. Equipped with multiple degrees, Christina set out to launch a promising career in New York City—and then everything fell apart. After spending the first six months out of college unemployed, Christina’s hope started running out. By 23, she was burned out and disillusioned by how di...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes, our lives change gradually.  At other times, they can take a 180 within seconds. For Jessie, that life-altering moment came in the form of a car accident, which resulted in a Traumatic Brain Injury.  This is something she has now lived with for nearly a decade. Learning to navigate life with an invisible and often misunderstood injury is far from easy. Yet Jessie is gra...

Send us Fan Mail “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. In the years that followed, she learned that forgiveness isn’t always a one-time event—it...

Send us Fan Mail 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 parent...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Her insights into connecting with joy, coping with change, and finding peace offer a helpful roadmap for stewarding your energy throughout the h...

Send us Fan Mail 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 p...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Worst of all, we betray ourselves by believing these intrusive thoughts. We begin to feel inferior, inadequate, and i...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Knowing that her husband Scott could not be in the delivery room with her, she ha...

Send us Fan Mail 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. After narrowly escaping this near-death experience...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Breaking this cycle required Amy to practice something revolutionary: becoming her own advocate. For Amy,...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Libby...

Send us Fan Mail 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 vulnerabi...

Send us Fan Mail Having been on a personal journey of transformation my guest David Richman, author of Cycle of Lives, has a natural curiosity for life and humanity.      In writing his book, David had the privilege of capturing the insights and experiences of 15 individuals, all sharing their personal story related to cancer.  In doing so, David has created a 360-degree lens for understanding mor...

Send us Fan Mail The growing pains of becoming an adult can be daunting. Now imagine doing so while living with a rare, chronic health condition.  Ever since her first brain surgery at only seven years old, Camille Thoms has navigated life with neurofibromatosis (type 2)—a condition where benign tumours grow on her nervous system.  Now a recent college grad, Camille is devoting her life to helping...

Send us Fan Mail Alyshia Van Kannel knew two things for sure, she wanted to be a teacher, and she wanted to teach internationally. It is because of this dream that she was willing to move to Nicaragua, Central America.  Some of us might ignore that little voice inside of us while others race wholeheartedly toward that passion.    Little did Alyshia know she would face personal and emotional obstac...

Send us Fan Mail After their 22-year-old son beat cancer, Shelley and her husband, Academy Award-winning director Chris Buck (“Frozen” and “Frozen 2”), breathed a sigh of relief.  And then tragically, their son, Ryder, died when he was hit by a car only a few months later.   With vulnerability and courage, Shelley chose to follow her grief to the unfamiliar places and deep insights it revealed to...

Send us Fan Mail What possibilities might you unleash with a shift in mindset? How do you stay the course while pursuing your goals? Why is it important to let go of comparison?   Welcome aboard the latest episode! Sail away with Cindy as she shares insights and life lessons learned at sea, combined with 30+ years of supporting clients as they navigate their own journeys. You’ll learn more about t...