July Is BIPOC Mental Health Month
July is BIPOC Mental Health Month in Canada and across North America. And if you have never heard of it, or if you have heard of it but aren’t quite sure what it means or why it exists, you are
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Finding a BIPOC Yoga Teacher in Vancouver
You have tried yoga before. Maybe more than once. You rolled out the mat, showed up to the studio, followed along. And somewhere in the middle of it something felt off. It might have been in the playlist, the language,
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Radical Gratitude for BIPOC Healing: Holding Complexity as a Survival Tool
Someone says it at the end of a hard conversation: “But you have so much to be grateful for.” Something in your chest goes tight. Not because you don’t already know that. Not because joy is foreign to you. Because
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The Types of Unrecognized Grief We Carry in Our Bodies.
You sit on the edge of your bed after an exhausting Tuesday. You drop your phone onto the mattress, and the room falls quiet. Suddenly, a heavy blanket of sadness settles over your chest. You did not watch a tragedy
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Cultural Awareness, Cultural Humility, Cultural Responsiveness: What They Mean and Why It Matters for Finding a Therapist
You have been searching for a therapist. You have read profile after profile. Words like “culturally sensitive,” “culturally competent,” “anti-oppressive,” and “culturally responsive” keep appearing – sometimes all on the same profile, sometimes interchangeably, as though they mean the same
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When Autopilot Fails: Disability in a Capitalist Society
In my twenties, I walked and biked everywhere. I went out with friends, partied late, survived on minimal hours of sleep and ate foods that didn’t feel the best. Sure, I wasn’t exactly the picture of health, agility, or peak
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Therapy Stigma in South Asian Communities: And How It’s Changing
You are sitting at the dinner table. Someone in the family is struggling – visibly, undeniably. Maybe it is you. Maybe it is a parent, a sibling, a cousin whose eyes have gone flat in a way that worries you.
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BIPOC Burnout and Impostor Syndrome
You have the job. The degree. Maybe multiple degrees. You show up, you deliver, you are the person others come to when things fall apart. You have built something real – often from very little, often against odds that nobody
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