“I told my wife our son was leaking for no reason. She corrected me – he was crying.” For Alex (name changed for anonymity) his 4-year-old son’s emotions were an impossible puzzle to decipher. Alex, like others who struggle with alexithymia, has difficulty recognizing and expressing his emotions. We spoke to clinical psychologist Cynthia King, […]
The Good Place, a four-season series that aired from 2016 to 2020. It explores existential comedy themes revolving around morality, the afterlife, generational trauma, hope, and more. The main character, Eleanor Shellstrop, starts as a self-centred and morally compromised individual. Throughout the series, Eleanor undergoes significant personal growth and transformation. Ultimately resulting in her becoming […]
Kent Monkman, born in 1965. is part of the Fisher River Cree Nation but now resides in the Dish with One Spoon Territory, also known as Toronto, Ontario. He is known for creating art that focuses on Indigenous people’s historical and current marginalization from society. Monkman sheds light on important messages such as sexual identity, […]
The web has changed our lives rapidly over the past 30 years, for better or worse. With it have come changes in parenting, which have affected our children. Neglect in children is the absence of responsive caregiving which poses a threat to a child’s well-being. The average U.S. adult spent a whopping 17 hours staring […]
Demi Lovato recently released a mini docu-series on YouTube called “Dancing with the Devil”. This four-episode documentary dives deep into Lovato’s recovery and the events leading up to her opioid overdose in July 2018. Many celebrities often keep their mental health issues private as it is often criticized and shamed by the public. Lovato makes it […]
“At one point I was alone in the house for about a week. Before that, my brother would usually be home, and the computer was in his room so I could be there for 15 hours a day – but now I could be there 24/7. So, I did. I barely slept, and ate nothing […]
“The Glass Castle” is a memoir by Jeannette Walls which details her childhood growing up in a family with an intelligent, yet unfortunately alcoholic father stuck in a selfish, unstable fantasy, and a mother who refuses the responsibility of caring for her children, instead favouring her own artistic pursuits. The childhood neglect that Walls and […]
It is a life of deafening silence, colourless walls, and empty corridors, a life of intense longing and disappointment. For over 600,000 children living in Russian orphanages waiting to be adopted, it is the only life they know. In 2013, Russia passed a law to ban the adoption of orphaned children by American citizens, in […]
In 1993, in Merseyside, England, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were charged with the abduction and murder of 2-year-old James Bulger. Bulger had been abducted from a shopping mall, repeatedly assaulted, and his body left to be run over by a train. Both Venables and Thompson were 10 years old at the time. The public […]