What a Death Doula Does and Why BIPOC Communities Are Reclaiming This Practice
When someone passes away back home, the people who love them surround them. Someone bathes the body with care, someone stays through the night, and someone knows the prayers, and when to say them. That knowledge did not come from
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How BIPOC Communities Are Building Safety, Trust, and Connection
You are sitting at someone’s kitchen table. The food is good. The conversation moves easily between languages. Someone laughs at something that only makes sense if you grew up in a particular place, with a particular history, and everyone at
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Anti-Oppressive Professionals Matter
You’re taking care into your hands and booked the appointment with a new allied professional. It’s an investment and that can be daunting, perhaps you are feeling a bit of guilt because you know no one else in your family
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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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