ReThreading Madness

Keith Chiefmoon is from the Kainai Nation, part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, which is just south of Calgary in Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta. He holds a BA, a BEd in Native American Studies and an MA in Education. Keith is a Residential School Survivor who is currently working as an Indian Residential School and Community Engagement Worker. We are going to chat about racism, residential sch...

Trigger Warning: This program deals with the issue of therapy abuse and as such it may have material that folks find triggering of abuse. Bernadine chats with past guest, Carolyn Clement (award-winning photographer and survivor of sibling, child, and therapy abuse) on her experience of making a complaint with her State Licensing Board around the abuse experienced at the hands of her predatory ther...

Trigger Warning: talks about therapy abuse Amy Nordhues, author of Prayed Upon: Breaking Free from Therapist Abuse, chats with Bernadine about her experience of abuse at the hands of a clergy/therapist in her church. Therapy abuse is getting more and more attention as professionals are beginning to understand the dramatic and profoundly damaging consequences to a client with their therapist transg...

A White Settler and a South Asian Immigrant talk about Reconciliation in Canada. Ninu Kang, Executive Director of EVA, an immigrant from South Asia returns to Rethreading Madness to have a conversation about Reconciliation with Bernadine, a white settler: what it is, what it means for us, what we have done, where we make mistakes, what more we need to do – all with a view and agreement that we are...

Peer Support with MadCamp, Connection Salon, and Coast Mental Health: RTM explores three options for finding peer support for folks with mental health challenges. Dina Tyler talk to us about MadCamp - a camping event happening in Northern California in July 2023 for folks who identify as living with mental health challenges. Connection Salon is showcasing an art exhibition (Mar 3 to April 4) with...

Bernadine speaks with Rebecca, a visual arts painter of beautiful images. Her day job is as a caregiver in a senior's living home. Rebecca struggles to heal from childhood abuse and has engaged in an alternative form of healing that includes plant medicine to assist her in opening up to traumatic experience. Rebecca describes her process of healing and how her childhood has impacted on her current...

On ReThreading Madness Bernadine and Rob Wipond continue their discussion of his latest book, "Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianships". In this part, they discuss how the psychiatric industry is being used to punish whistleblowers, political advocates, and within our daily lives with disgruntled employers and unhappy spouses. A...

Part 1 Rob talks with Bernadine about his book "Your Consent is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianships" and about the fallible nature of diagnoses, psychiatric medications and treatment along with the inherent problems that occur in the mental health industry that leave psychiatric survivors victimized and trapped for a long time. One of the st...

Rethreading Madness brings back one of the professionals who cohosted this program when it was called Both Sides Now. Glen Grigg PhD has provided clinical counselling in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver for 25 years. He teaches in the Master of Counselling program at UBC and Adler University. We sat down with him to ask the question that is almost never asked or really answered: What is Mental Heal...

Ann Bemrose and Bernadine talk about how Toxic Positivity impacts on our mental health for those who live with physical and mental health challenges. Toxic Positivity is a means of denial by overlaying of positive ideas onto a reality that has some inherently negative aspects. It’s excessive and overgeneralized happiness results in invalidating authentic emotions in oneself and others that are dee...

On ReThreading Madness today, Bernadine and Jessica Garner have a frank conversation about sex and its impact on mental health. While sex is not necessarily a topic that one should make note of as triggering - In the spirit of ensuring everyone is ok with today’s topic – we would like to say that some of what we talk about may be problematic for some folks. Sex is a primary human need along with f...

Narcissism is a psychological term categorized in the DSM as a psychiatric disorder: The DSM clinically outlines it as a mental condition where people have an inflated sense of their importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, has troubled relationships, lacks empathy for others and while displaying extreme confidence they have a fragile self-esteem that overreacts to even the...

In 2019, Bernadine Fox with cohost, Glen Grigg, sat down with Bethany Lindsay , a CBC reporter, to discuss the Cayton Report & the ways which Regulatory Colleges in BC are letting mental health consumers down. The question asked & left unanswered: “Who is protecting the mental health consumer?” One might think that the state of registering therapists and counsellors in BC to protect client...

Trigger Warning: Discuss Domestic Violence Here on ReThreading Madness we talk about all manner of things that impact on our mental health. Today we are going to talk with Ninu Kang Executive Director of Ending Violence Association – also known as EVA. It is a follow up show to one we did at the onset of COVID looking at commonly known variants that increased the amount and intensity of violence a...

Analie Shepherd, author of the Mending the Shattered Mirror: A Journey of Recovery from Abusive Therapy, talks with Bernadine about how an abusive therapist may use finances to further their exploitation. While we most often think of therapist abuse in terms of sexual contact, it is not uncommon to have it include other forms of exploitation one of which is financial. What does that look like? It...

David Roche, 2022 Order of Canada Recipient, dives into a conversation about living with a facial difference. His bio reads, “David's face distinguishes him from all other presenters and speakers. What really makes David unique, however, is his remarkable spirit, warmth, wit and authenticity. David has transformed the challenges and gifts of living with a facial difference into a compelling messag...

ReThreading Madness chats with long-time friend of the show, Jake, along with Victoria Spooner and Don Wright about strategies for surviving the upcoming holiday season. December holds a difficult holiday. For those who live with mental health challenges or those who were traumatized within their family of origin – this holiday season is a hard one. Jake, Victoria, Don and Bernadine chat about thi...

Paint is polygendered, disabled, autistic, and mad. He uses his work to craft a future where we are free to be and thrive as our unique selves. His art is also part of a broader quest for healing and regaining lost abilities. Today, we talk about what happens when you are abusively used as an internet meme and how being his uniqueness meant he fell through cracks within the mental health system. I...

Scapegoating is unfortunately an all too common occurrence around us. We see it. Sometimes we unwittingly participate in it. AJ and Bernadine talk about the history of and mechanisms in scapegoating especially as it pertains to those who live with mental health and physical challenges. Andrea is a Policy and Technical Assistance Coordinator working on tobacco policy with a health authority and uni...

We all dissociate. However, some of us use dissociation as a primary coping skill and create a complex system to deal with what are usually difficult lives. Misinformation about Dissociative Identities (multiple personalities) including stereotypes has been promoted in popular culture complicating the issue even further. Suzanne and Bernadine sit down to unpack what is Dissociative Identities. Eve...

Eugene LeBlanc has been the director of the Moncton New Brunswick based self-help center, Groupe de Support Emotionnel inc, the publisher and Editor of Our Voice / Notre Voix and has advocated for the rights of the consumer/survivor and pyschiatric survivor community since 1987. Because of this work he was awarded the New Brunswick Human Rights Award in 2003. We talk about his work and the current...

Bernadine chats with Amy Lyn Johnson, private practice therapist and TELL Responder, about ethical boundaries in therapy and in this short episode we talk about what are the rules around running into your therapist in a social situation like an AA meeting. Amy provides a good framework about how an ethical therapist would handle this. (music used "It's Alright by Shari Ulrich) Become a supporter o...

Bernadine chats with Amy Lyn Johnson, private practice therapist and TELL Responder, about therapy abuse: what it looks like, boundary transgressions, impact on client. In this podcast, the listener will gain a good preliminary understanding of therapy abuse. (music used "It's Alright by Shari Ulrich) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rethreading-madness--5675300...

Counselor and mother, Helen Thomas sits down and talks with us about the death of her son, Malachy, at the age of 18 to a fentanyl overdose. We examine our role as parents, the impact on us when we lose our children to an overdose and what could we be doing to change these fatal overdoses. (music used "It's Alright by Shari Ulrich) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podca...

Charlotte Watson is an AAMET accredited, certified Advanced Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner. But here on ReThreading Madness, Charlotte describes why and how she estranged from her entire family as a young adult and how this has impacted her life. It is an provocative story of emotional trauma, betrayal, and an eventual visit with her ailing, elderly father which offered both the re...