A Resilience Project

Send us Fan Mail Pam Botterill is an Indigenous woman from the Wei Wai Kum First Nation in Campbell River BC, who was adopted at the age of 9 months and was raised by a non-Indigenous family in Powell River, BC.  Pam describes her experience of adoption as a good-news story.   With an interesting connection between the Celtic music, she was raised with, and the drumming of her indigenous roots, Pa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Angel Pearl Talemwa is speaking with us from Magoggo, a remote village in Uganda.  Angel is the founder and has been the team leader of DEWI Stronger Communities for the past 3 years.  Growing up in a polygamist family and one of 12 children, Angel talks of the poverty, as well as the social and geographic challenges to receiving an education in the remote villages...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I reflect on some of the pivotal moments of growth and resilience in the course of my life and career.  As with 20/20 vision, looking through the rear-view mirror these learnings become much clearer.  Sharing some of the vulnerable, beautiful and courageous experiences that have stood out for me, I can now honour that each of these challenges have contributed to wh...

Send us Fan Mail With a wealth of expertise in cultivating resilience among humans, Dr. Doug Walker Registered Psychologist and Chief Programs Director of Mercy Family Center in St. Louis shares his experience of surviving Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and how this prompted him to develop Project Fleur-de-lis, New Orleans largest school-based Mental Health program devoted to students struggling emoti...

Send us Fan Mail Alicia Nicholson is the author of The Resilient Mommy Blog, a space where she speaks to the resiliency of being a mommy. Sharing her story of loss after a miscarriage and a second child at 23 weeks, Alicia is no stranger to grief.   With an insight that only lived experience can teach us, Alicia is now committed to providing resources and support to women who have experienced loss...

Send us Fan Mail Karen Peters, Registered Clinical Counsellor talks about the decision she and her husband Chris made to grow their family through adoption.  With a very special conversation on what it can mean to adopt interracially, Karen shines a light on their eye-opening and heart wrenching opportunity to learn and actively dismantle their white privilege as parents while celebrating and inst...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are talking with Marj Busse, Master Certified Coach.  Growing up in a military family Marj shares the timeless wisdom she learned from her father as a little girl, what inspired her to pursue leadership coaching and the insights she discovered about herself in the process. Website: https://www.essentialimpact.com/ Podcast: https://essentialimpact.com/podcast/pag...

Send us Fan Mail Jeannette Ambrose, Registered Psychologist and family therapist speaks about surviving the loss of her mother to suicide and how this early trauma transported her into a long career of helping others through traumatic grief and loss.  This episode will discuss the nature of sudden traumatic loss and some of the considerations in navigating this very challenging journey. Website: h...

Send us Fan Mail Frank & Linda Seitz have been married for 52 years and would suggest that together they make one person.  With a long career as a psychiatric nursing attendant, Frank had a common interest with Linda as she also worked at the Brandon Health Centre as a Psychiatric nurse.  Perhaps it was their natural propensity toward helping others that prepared them for the many health chall...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Erica Harris shares how Leukemia took her on a significant detour from the highway in life she had been on, and how a terminal illness propelled her on to the path she was supposed to be on.  Prior to 2012 Dr. Harris was happily married with two little boys, with a successful career as a Chiropractor and Kinesiologist.   Receiving the results of routine lab work Dr. Harris was...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Serena Klaver a professional planning consultant, talks about a program she and her co-facilitator have been delivering to Universities on Vancouver Island over this past year.  My True Resiliency workshop offers students a tool kit for building resiliency, tapping into habits and skills for understanding their emotional needs, while developing healthy habits and s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you will meet Cyprine Omollo, program Manager of Clean Start Kenya.  Clean Start is an organization that helps women and girls transition back into society after being in prison or juvenile detention.  Cyprine shares her story of having being imprisoned herself for being unable to pay her debts and sheds light on the desperate plight of women, girls and children sh...

Send us Fan Mail With over 30 years in a field where listening becomes a sacred gift of time and presence, starting a podcast feels like a natural extension of what I love most – listening to stories. With a desire to reach beyond the microphone, this podcast sheds a little light on my life, my experiences and key events that helped to shape who I am today.    Given that we all have had to adjust...

Send us Fan Mail At a time when there is a great deal of focus on our current challenges, there can be a great deal benefit in shifting from “why me” to “what can I do”? NY Times Bestseller and Encourager to Millions, Bob calls himself a "recovering lawyer". After practicing law for 25 years, then becoming the Hon. Consul to Uganda, he gave up his law firm to pursue writing and speaking...

Send us Fan Mail If you are wondering where the WONDER is, these two young women are sure to inspire you! Whether you believe Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year, or if you are someone who sees it as “just another day”, this episode highlights a number of creative initiatives that are having a big impact in Chilliwack, BC and around the world. If you are wondering how to bring...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are talking with Dr. Rob Lees about some of challenges many veteran’s experience within their military service and following their tour of duty.  In his work as a Registered Psychologist, Dr. Lees suggests we are often happiest when we find meaning and a true purpose in life. With a number of creative initiatives between the school district and Child & Youth...

Send us Fan Mail In the early 1960’s, over 13,000 babies around the world were born with deformities as a direct result of Thalidomide – a drug prescribed to relieve morning sickness. Alvin Law was one of them. Thalidomide was the cause of Alvin being born without arms. At five days old, Alvin was placed in foster care with Bert & Hilda Law.  Hilda’s intuition told her that lurking inside this...

Send us Fan Mail A Resilience Project is a podcast inspired by the true resiliency of humans.  There is no play-book that tells us how to deal with adversity, and yet each one of us has a story of resilience. Typically we are flying by the seat of our pants and figuring it out as we go. It is in sharing our experiences with one another, and learning from those who have gone before us that we disco...