Your Ancestors Knew How to Stay Safe
You walk into a store and something shifts in your body before your mind catches up. A subtle alertness. An awareness of who is watching, where the exits are, how much space you are taking up. You might have learned
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What Is a Doula? Understanding Support Through Every Threshold of Life
There is a moment in every significant transition where the ordinary support systems fall short. Your partner is doing their best but they are also scared. Your family loves you but they do not know what to do. The medical
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Building Capacity Through Climate Anxiety Therapy to Hold the Polycrisis, Together
The sky over the city is that pretty reddish-orange again – but half a second after feeling awe for the sky’s colour you remember that this is due to terrible fires across the province. You check the wildfire app on
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When BIPOC Representation Still Gets You Wrong
You are scrolling through Instagram looking for a therapist. You type in a search, click through some accounts, and something almost clicks. There are more BIPOC faces than there were a few years ago. The aesthetic is warmer. The language
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The Model Minority Myth and East Asian Mental Health
You got the grades, the degree, and the job. And somewhere in all of that, you learned not to talk about the parts that were hard, because the story about people like you is that you work hard, you succeed,
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Your Body Is Not the Problem
You have been thinking about getting a trainer. Maybe for a while. But you hesitate because you know that your goals sit within a personal cultural context your body carries ancestral strengths not recognized by the mainstream fitness industry, and
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Ontario Wildfires and BIPOC Mental Health
You have been checking your phone more than usual this week. Maybe it is the air quality warnings, maybe it is the footage that keeps appearing in your feeds: orange skies over Toronto, smoke so thick it turns midday into
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Finding a BIPOC Leadership Coach in Toronto
You have the title. Maybe you have had it for years. You show up, you deliver, you hold things together for your team, your organization, your community. And underneath all of that, something is quietly unraveling. Not because you are
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