Click here to view our podcast channel! In this episode, Trauma and Mental Health Report writer Alexandra Vesia interviews psychotherapist Loren Harssar from Harssar’s Holistics to learn about effective tools for communication and conflict resolution. A significant topic considered throughout this interview is how communicating our needs to others can strengthen our current relationships and help […]
Alex Markwell is an undergraduate student at York University who is currently studying psychology and has a previous degree in film. In collaboration with her friends, she created an informative animation about body image. Specifically, this short animation explores the complex experience of being categorized and judged based on our bodies and how this may […]
Humans have a long-lasting relationship with storytelling. Before written symbols were invented and people started committing words to paper, it was the word-of-mouth that traversed history and connected generations. All original myths and worldviews were spun into stories which were carried across distances and through time. Even now, our introduction to language and collective knowledge […]
Lena Bouma is an artist, specializing in graphic design. The Trauma and Mental Health Report reached out to hear about Lena’s process of expressing feelings and managing mental health: “I used to draw through anxiety a lot to be honest. It really helped me to draw lots of feelings about being queer and stuff. My […]
From a young age, singer, actress, and activist Demi Lovato has been in the spotlight. Their challenges with mental health have subsequently been viewed as a spectacle by the media. With their newest project released in April 2021, “Dancing with the Devil…the Art of Starting Over,” Lovato changes the narrative by sharing their own story […]
Lewis Capaldi wrote the song ‘Before You Go’ about an incident that happened in his own family. His aunt had taken her life at a young age. “When I was five or six” he said, “my aunt committed suicide and I just remember recently speaking to my mom about her feelings." He added "She said […]
Najwa Zebian is a Lebanese Canadian educator and activist based in Ontario. She is famous for her creative writing and poetry. At the age of sixteen, she arrived to Canada and faced many difficulties. She started to heal herself through writing. She is now a published author of 3 books and has become an inspiration […]
In 2014, the Trauma and Mental Health Report met with Kevin Healey, a mental health advocate, to discuss his experiences with hearing voices from an early age. Six years later we were able to catch-up with Healey for an update. When asked about his current relationship with his voices, Healey shared: “People often think that […]
Have you ever wished for an escape from your own mind? Bailey Jordan is a realism artist who incorporates themes of mental health into her work. Her digital illustration featuring a woman “exiting” her mind encapsulates the wish to have a break from ourselves. In conversation with the TMHR Jordan explains her reasoning behind the […]
Where the Watermelon Grow is a debut novel by author Cindy Baldwin, a novel for kids age 9 to 11+ about a family touched by schizophrenia. The story is narrated through the eyes of 12-years old Della, whose mom is diagnosed with schizophrenia and experiencing a psychotic episode. Despite the seriousness of the subject matter, […]