Episodios

  • Judy and I on Dissociative Identities

    Judy and I on Dissociative Identities
    Mar 11 2025
    Judy and I on Dissociative Identities

    This program comes out of seeing one more untrained therapist postulate that folks with dissociative identities (formerly known as multiple personalities) are rare and dysfunctional or simply do not exist. Judy and I are here to push back against this assumption that couldn’t be farther from the truth. If you are a woman in Canada and haven’t heard of Judy Rebick, you haven’t been paying attention. Judy is a Canadian writer, journalist, political activist, and is considered one of Canada’s leading feminists. She was the former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) and held the Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy. She rubbed elbows and engaged with politicians in intense discussions. She has been the TV host for CBC programs and was the founder and publisher for rabble.ca. Judy is known as a vocal spokesperson to legalize abortion and taking on a protestor with a pair of garden shears pointed at D. Morgentaler. She is the author of Heroes in My Head (2018) which outlines not just her political life but that of her personalities.

    And while my audience has come to know me over the years, for the purpose of this program it is important that I fill you in a bit more. I am a graduate of Emily Carr University and an established visual artist, curator, and instructor. I worked as a film production manager before becoming a peer support worker and consultant for those with childhood trauma and dissociative identities. For 30 years, I have been an award-winning mental health advocate and am the host of this program which is Canada’s longest-running syndicated show on mental health where we disregard colonial-based ideas about mental health and the DSM. I am a survivor of human trafficking and spent years speaking out against organized crime. I currently provide peer support through TELL the Therapy Exploitation Link Line to survivors of therapy abuse and exploitation. I am a public speaker providing workshops on TAE and facilitating peer support groups for fellow survivors. And I have, like Judy, authored a memoir, Coming to Voice which chronicles surviving an abuse therapist and the role my dissociative identities played in saving my life.

    So to dispel the myth that folks with DI are fragile and dysfunctional, Judy and I are here to answer the questions sent into ReThreading Madness listeners of what DI is from our lived experience.
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  • ADHD, PTSD, and Autism with Randi-Lee Bowslaugh

    ADHD, PTSD, and Autism with Randi-Lee Bowslaugh
    Mar 4 2025
    ADHD, PTSD, and Autism with Randi-Lee Bowslaugh

    Randi-Lee Bowslaugh is a fellow warrior out there around the issue of mental health awareness fighting the inappropriate stigma we face as folks who live with mental health challenges. Randi-Lee is an author and outspoken advocate for mental health. She has lived with depression from the age of 14 years and was eventually diagnosed with autism and PTSD as an adult. She is the host of the Write or Die Show a podcast that you can find on You tube. And of course, like so many of us, as a well-rounded person she has other sides to her. One of them is kickboxing in 2015 she was a Canadian National Champion and in 2016 she won silver in Pan-Am games. Randi-Lee is also a mother and grandmother.

    Music by Shari Ulrich and Brandi Carlisle
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  • Connection Salon & Gathering Place, Crisis Centre of BC & Kagan Goh

    Connection Salon & Gathering Place, Crisis Centre of BC & Kagan Goh
    Feb 28 2025
    Connection Salon & Gathering Place, Crisis Centre of BC & Kagan Goh

    In today’s program we speak with Pierre Leichner from the Connection Salon here in Vancouver BC and Carrie Campbell from the Gathering Place about their collaboration to ensure that art comes to those who live with mental health challenges.

    We also speak with Mark Sheehan, Program Director, and Paul Vincent, Volunteer, about the Youth Education projects bringing mental health information to youth through the Crisis Centre of BC.

    And then Kagan Goh joins us to talk about his upcoming documentary on mental health entitled Common Law.

    Music by Shari Ulrich
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  • What does Mental Health, Psychiatry, and the Ouija Board have in Common?

    What does Mental Health, Psychiatry, and the Ouija Board have in Common?
    Feb 11 2025
    What does Mental Health, Psychiatry, and the Ouija Board have in Common?

    Dan Nelson, is the author of Ouija Board and the Skeptic (Mad In America) and holds a BA in Philosophy, MA in Human Resources and Industrial Relations. Through twenty years of working in management systems, he knows that systems are designed to output a particular product or service and that the system was the cause of any and all undesirable results the system outputs. In this article, he states that the mental health systems are responsible for their lack of ability to assist some who live with mental health challenges.

    Dan writes, “Psychiatry's practices are so entrenched, its methods so accepted, that skeptics and outsiders are often dismissed as uninformed or unqualified simply because they haven’t undergone the same training that instills confidence in its frameworks. But skepticism, especially from those with lived experience, isn’t just valid—it’s necessary. It forces us to question whether our tools and methods truly serve those they claim to help.”

    We respond to our lives, our challenges, our struggles. Too often mental health issues are a normal and nature response to trauma. As Dan points out if the psych industry isn’t looking at the systems around their clients and changing those systems, and instead they medicate and work with the client to be able to tolerate the difficulties they are dealing with – they aren’t solving the morning. They are applying a band aid.

    A good example of this is how our systems are designed to pathologize the victim is schoolyard bullying. Too often the victim is expected to learn to develop new skills to deal with the bully. Often they must be extricated from the school to be protected. The bully, too often, is not confronted or restricted in ways that would prevent the bullying. Dan demonstrates how we can take that same example and apply it to the mental health system where victims come forward with mental health challenges caused by environmental factors and yet the industry will medicate the victim instead of looking at how to change the environment. The DSM and psychiatry is accepted to often without including the possibility (like with a Ouija Board) that perhaps it is not truth.

    Music by Shari Ulrich and Jelly Roll
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  • Spotting a Coaching Scam with youtube creator Danielle Ryan

    Spotting a Coaching Scam with youtube creator Danielle Ryan
    Feb 4 2025
    Spotting a Coaching Scam with youtube creator Danielle Ryan

    Danielle Ryan describes herself as a youtube channel creator and “just a troll on the internet covering topics related to the business & life coaching industry.” As she says, part of the problem is lack of regulation and then what happens when coaches coaches to become coaches. She spends a lot of time sharing “my silly little opinions as I deep dive into *allegedly* problematic people, organizations, and techniques used to manipulate people in the space while also sprinkling in the occasional small business video.”

    Her channel is a mix of educational & commentary content.
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@itsdanielleryan
    Website: https://danielleryan.me

    Music by Shari Ulrich, David Laronde, and Elizabeth Wallace
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  • How Past Lives and Spiritual Experiences Impact our Mental Health with Kerie Logan

    How Past Lives and Spiritual Experiences Impact our Mental Health with Kerie Logan
    Jan 29 2025
    How Past Lives and Spiritual Experiences Impact our Mental Health with Kerie Logan

    While there doesn’t seem to be any scientific consensus of past lives, the correlation between them, present-day conflicts, and/or emotional baggage is significant. And the anecdotal stories include resolving problematic patterns that one has around behaviors, phobias, relationship, relationship difficulties among others. In addition, we have individuals who when they have spoken about past lives or spiritual experiences are dismissed with labels of being crazy by people around them and professionals in the mental health industry and some are simply shipped off to the psych ward. So we decided it was time to take a look at what this was and how it manifests in people's lives.

    Here in Western culture where so much is based on Christianity and white culture, we experience a pronounced dissonance. On one hand we are taught to believe in the bible and that Jesus rose from the dead. The Holy Ghost is recognized as a witness of God and Jesus and confirms the truth. And yet, we are told that ghosts are not real and reincarnation is the stuff of snake oil salesmen. We are taught that according to the bible angels exist, but if someone sees them, a psychiatrist will likely define that as delusions. There is nothing offered that explains those two opposites beliefs.


    The other truth here is that not everyone is situated in white culture and we have the benefit of learning from others where reincarnation, ancestors, and ghosts are integral to their lives.


    Award-winning hypnotherapist, Kerie Logan joins Bernadine to explain how our past lives or spiritual experiences may impact on our mental health. Logan has spent the last 40+ years working with people using meditation, NLP, creative visualization, relaxation, inner child work and hypnosis. She has won awards for her hypnotherapy work. ReThreading Madness talks with her about the impact past lives and spiritual experiences has on our mental health and how we might be able to resolve them. So if you have experienced past lives or angels in ways that have impacted your mental health this program is for you.

    Music by Shari Ulrich and Born
    More information about Kerie Logan at:

    Website: https://mastertheupperrooms.com/
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mastertheupperrooms
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    Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mastertheupperrooms/

    https://www.empoweredwithin.com/
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  • With Matt Sandoval from FreeArts AZ and Kagan Goh producer/director of Common Law

    With Matt Sandoval from FreeArts AZ and Kagan Goh producer/director of Common Law
    Jan 21 2025
    With Matt Sandoval from FreeArts AZ and Kagan Goh producer/director of Common Law


    Matt Sandoval, is the new Executive Director for FreeArts in Arizona. FreeArts AZ provides traumatized children and their families with a means of creative expression and as means of establishing resilience and offering mentorship.

    And Kagan Goh talks with ReThreading Madness about his new film, Common Law, a biographical account of his experience of learning he had BiPolar and how this impacted on his relationships with his long-time girlfriend and family. Through this we learn how individuals who receive Persons With Disability in BC, are unable to keep this benefit if they enter into a common-law relationship and how that changes the relationship and their own sense of self. Kagan also talks about his preference for the term manic/depressive instead of BiPolar.
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  • I "Married" My Therapist: Ken Schultz talks about the damage he suffered

    I "Married" My Therapist: Ken Schultz talks about the damage he suffered
    Jan 15 2025
    Trigger Warnng: This episode includes information about therapy abuse and may be triggering for some folks.

    I Married my Therapist:

    Ken Schultz is an advocate for mental health reform and a survivor of therapy abuse and exploitation. He is using his personal experience of harm to raise awareness about unethical therapeutic relationships and their lasting impact. Through his story, Ken aims to inspire change in laws and practices to protect others from similar experiences.

    If we want to examine the power and authority mental health professionals have over their clients – Ken’s story is a prime example. He saw this therapist for 3 months and in that time frame, he went from someone who had zero attraction to being sexually exploited by her all the while believing how she defined it as ok.

    If we want to examine how the institutions should be assisting us after we have experienced therapy abuse and exploitation, Ken is another prime example. The therapist he was seeing reported her, then left him to deal with the fallout on his own. The Texan state licensing board narrowed his complaint down to violating one aspect of the statutes: the timeline. His “therapist” dragged out leaving the ‘marriage’ to prevent a complaint based on the allotted time. But the licensing board ignored another statute that their social workers are not allowed to have sexual contact with a current or former client – of which she clearly had violated and of which had done so within the statute of limitations. And his church and police believed her statements without any corroboration and victimized him again.

    Things must change. We all need to wake up to harm perpetrated against those who have experienced therapy abuse and exploitation so that we are not inadvertently exacerbating that harm that is already catastrophic in too many cases.

    Music by Shari Ulrich and Shawn Mendes
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