Bernadine Fox

ReThreading Madness

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Bernadine Fox brings a rare and powerful combination of lived experience, long-term disability rights advocacy, and creative insight to her role as host and producer of ReThreading Madness, the award-winning radio show and podcast that dares to shift how we think about mental health. A recipient of the 2022 Courage to Come Back Award , Bernadine is a white settler of Scottish, Irish, and French heritage with a familial connection to the Tsuut'ina nation. She has spent over 30 years advocating for those with lived experience of mental health challenges including survivors of trauma and therapy...

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Raising Hope: Kassandra Talks about how She Survived the Trauma of Sexual Assault and Trafficking in Her Childhood 01.11.2022 1:00:02

Trigger Warning: child sexual assault and child trafficking discussed. Bernadine engages with Kassandra, a former foster child, about the ongoing and severe child sexual abuse. The importance of Kassandra's story is not in the details of her trauma - it is in how she emerged from it a strong, resilient young woman. Feedback from a listener: I was driving home from my job in Abbotsford, to Surrey....

Three Consequences of Therapy Abuse: Unhealthy Dependence, Betrayal, and Extreme Ambivalence 27.10.2022 1:00:01

WARNING: Talking about Abuse of Clients by Therapist. Some of this material may be triggering to folks who have experienced this.” Three Consequences of Therapy Abuse: Unhealthy Dependence, Betrayal, and Extreme Ambivalence. Amy Avalon, a retired private practice therapist and a passionate advocate for suvivor of sexual and emotional abuse by their therapist and Carolyn Clement, an award winning f...

Comedian JD Derbyshire on Sanism 18.10.2022 50:05

The incredible JD Derbyshire who is a writer, comedian, mad activist, performer, playwright, theatre maker, director, inclusive educator and innovator joins Bernadine in RTM. We talk about being mad and the need for individuals who live with mental health challenges to have agency in their lives and to consider coming out. And we laughed… we laughed a lot. (music used "It's Alright by Shari Ulrich...

Elder Keith Chiefmoon and The Sacred Sundance: Preserving the Traditional Ceremony 11.10.2022 50:57

In 1895, the Canadian government banned the Sundance. Intent on destroying the first nation’s way of life and spiritual practices, the colonizers banned various ceremonies and certain practices (like piercing) along withholding sacred objects required for those ceremonies. While this was legally reversed in 1951, it took many years before all First Nation Communities were aware of this change, man...

Therapy Abuse: A Problem that is Increasing at an Alarming Rate 04.10.2022 56:55

WARNING: Talking about Abuse of Clients by Therapist. Some of this material may be triggering to folks who have experienced this.” Therapist Abuse is emerging from the shadows and with it recognition of the profound ways it impacts on clients. Bernadine, who has survived therapist abuse with Amy Avalon, a retired private practice therapist and a passionate advocate for survivor of sexual and emoti...

Kagan Goh on living with Bipolar 1 27.09.2022 51:37

Bernadine Fox interviews the indominable Kagan Goh. Originally from Singapore, Kagan Goh is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary Mad Artist: award-wining filmmaker, published author, spoken word poet, playwright, actor, mental health advocate and activist. He was diagnosed with manic depression at the age of twenty-three, in 1993. Kagan is a well-known spoken word artist, essayist and poet, a respe...