Episodes

  • It's a New Year

    It's a New Year
    Jan 1 2025
    It’s a New Year

    Today’s program is a slightly different structure. As we walk into the next year, several people came to share their hopes for themselves, their family and friends - with all of you. It is an uplifting show that demonstrates the amount of care and generosity that exists all around us. The program is our personal thank you to all who have been a part of the ReThreading Madness family whether as a guest or behind the scenes making sure the show goes out each week. This has been a hell of a year – monumental even. A big part of that was being able to chat with some of the most incredible people from around the world. As the host of ReThreading Madness, I consider myself blessed because of it. But also because of you, our listeners, who join us each week.

    Today we are joined by Jodi Grey, Charlene Hellson, Kayle Ackerman, Jackie Crowchild, Michelle Oucharek Deo, Peter Morin, Kagan Goh, Alex Sangha and Amy Avalon.

    Our inspirational music today was by the Animals, Sara Barielles, Anna Glendening, Rachel Platten, Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson, Zach Williams, Scott Callum, Peter Morin, and as always Shari Ulrich sings us into and out of each program each week.

    Bernadine’s personal message to our listeners: So here is wishing you a year full of caring, compassionate and supportive people, safe and gentle havens, along with personal growth, brave new insights, spontaneous, joyful fun and a trust in yourself that grows every day. But most of all she wishes for you a peace which settles into your heart as though it has always belonged there.
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  • Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackmanman

    Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackmanman
    Dec 19 2024
    Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackman

    Matthew Jackman has an intense conversation with Bernadine about the importance of the recognizing the immense value of those with lived experience as we examine mental health challenges. Matthew Jackman is a mental health advocate promoting human rights, social justice … he is activist from an academic science from a public health and mad studies knowledge base. He trained as social worker and has partnered with different marginalized and disadvantaged communities which focus on mental health. Matthew is a representative, ambassador or advisor with the Global Mental Health Peer Network, the World Economic Forum, the Australian Association of Social Workers, Generation Mental Health, and the World Health Organisation on key global mental health documents requiring lived experience perspective. He is a certified peer specialist and a visiting scholar in Psychiatry at Yale and Harvard University. He focuses on alternatives to psychiatry. Most recently he has accepted the role of Commissioner on Lived Experience in Mental Health Research for the Lancet Psychiatry. For those of who do not know the Lancet is one of the oldest peer-reviewed medical journals.
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    1 hr
  • Getting Over the Wrong Relationship with Sean Bridges

    Getting Over the Wrong Relationship with Sean Bridges
    Nov 27 2024
    Sean Bridges, award-winning screenwriter and author, had never been married until at the age of 55, he found, what he described as, the love of his life. He was about to be married. He was her fourth husband (to-be). Then something in his gut started shaking him awake to the realization that his life and his own personage had morphed into something he didn’t recognize; didn’t feel comfortable in. He packed his bags and left the million-dollar home he and his fiancé lived in. Traded it for a bartending job in a small town. And slowly found himself again. He talks with us about what happened and what he did to put the pieces back together.

    Sean Bridges is a Stephen King Dollar Baby with his festival winning audio production of One for the Road. His latest screenplay, Beginner's Luck, is a 2024 award-winner at the San Antonio and Austin Film Festivals. His new novel, Gunbarrel Highway, will be released as a paperback, e-book and audio book on November 20th. He lives and works in the Texas Hill Country, in central Texas USA

    Music by Fearless Soul and Shari Ulrich
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    1 hr
  • A Conversation grief... that morphs into one about death

    A Conversation grief... that morphs into one about death
    Nov 12 2024
    A Chat about Grief… that Morphs into one about Death

    Rebecca Coleman joins Bernadine to chat about grief. Layers of grief the represent what she is experiencing currently in her life. However, as these things go, one conversation morphs into another and by the end of this program they are looking at the issue of death: facing it, planning for it. It is a frank, easygoing, and important conversation.

    Music by Shari Ulrich
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    1 hr
  • Theatre for Living with David Diamond

    Theatre for Living with David Diamond
    Oct 31 2024
    Theatre for Living with David Diamond

    David Diamond joins Bernadine on ReThreading Madness to discuss his Theatre for Living Workshops. TFL, as the website states, is about empowerment. Taking the living organism, which is a community, and providing a platform for its expression to create “creative, community-based dialogue.” It sounds esoteric until you are inside the dialogue and then, as you will hear David describe, it becomes a natural process for learning, listening, healing, and recovering. As Gina Beltran commented, “The Theatre for Living workshop was a wonderful and profound experience for me. It allowed me to realize the potential of people coming together and connecting in genuine and honest ways that build meaningful and lasting relationships. In other words, it allowed me to see what a strong community can look like.” David facilitates these workshops for all sorts of groups including indigenous, recovery,
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    1 hr
  • Post Traumatic Growth with Joanne R. Green

    Post Traumatic Growth with Joanne R. Green
    Oct 28 2024
    Post Traumatic Growth: Joanne Green Style Joanne R. Green joins Bernadine on ReThreading Madness to talk about what inspired her book: By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go. Joanne shares her journey through a variety of personal losses: mom, sister, father, brother and struggles like anorexia and cancer. In the midst of all that it was a car sliding into her, a pedestrian, at an ungodly speed that brought her to the place where she embraced stillness and learned to let go. Joanne talks about transforming the negative self-take we all experience, how to use gratitude in the moment, and how to turn adversity into an opportunity and that into strength.
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    1 hr
  • Tools for Change and Employing Forgiveness

    Tools for Change and Employing Forgiveness
    Sep 24 2024
    Tools for Change and Employing Forgiveness

    Rhonda Parker Taylor talks about how she learned how to support herself and cultivate meaning in the relationship she had with herself after the murder of her son. In that she used writing as a tool for change. Rhonda tells us about her journey and her fictional book Crossroads and her workbook coming out in December of 2024. Then Katharine Giovanni talks about her book, “The Ultimate Path to Forgiveness: Unlocking Your Power “giving us insight into the process of forgiveness and why it might be important for some of us to look at it.

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    1 hr
  • Art and Peer Support at the Coast Mental Health Resource Centre

    Art and Peer Support at the Coast Mental Health Resource Centre
    Sep 20 2024
    Art and Peer Support at the Coast Mental Health Resource Centre. Bernadine heads down to Coast Mental Health Resource Centre on Seymour St in downtown Vancouver and speaks with folks about the Art Studio which is open to anyone with a mental health challenge. Betty Yan tells us about the Peer SupportTraining Program that Coast Mental Health has developed and runs. Shahal Bozorgzadeh was trained here as a Peer Support Worker and she describes why this job is so vital to her and those she works with. Shawna Butterwick is a volunteer at the Art Studio and fills us in on the day to day activities there and then artist, Leef Evans, talks a bit about his process, his depression and Margaret, the “spider” inside him (represents his depression) and how he has come to resolve that Margaret needs to get out every once and a while.

    Music by Shari Ulrich, Jack Harris, and Milanda
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    1 hr