The Kirby Report      Because of my book, published in 1999,I was pleased to receive an invitation to participate in Senator Kirby’s Canada wide survey into mental health practices in the provinces.The survey helped coordinate the Best Practices modality empowermentcouncil.ca

My CPAP Machine I consider myself to be a very lucky woman in my present-day elderly stage of living. In earlier years I had survived some serious ailments including heart disease and possibly lung cancer. I had given up a 40 year habit of inhaling cigarette smoke on a regular basis and almost immediately quit…

In 1999 I read a book titled “No More Hot Flashes.” The author recommended Hormone Replacement Therapy to put an end to the flashes of heat that surged through my body as often as every 20 minutes. I immediately contacted my doctor and he reluctantly consented to prescribing a lose dose of the hormones Estrogren…

Anger is based on fear and many of us have fear, or anxiety, because of incidents in our childhood. The fear can burst into anxiety sometimes, when something- can be a minor incidents- triggers bouts of emotion.My friend R. has had therapy which he tells me works for him. He visualizes the anger as a…

One day after Truth & Reconciliation Day, I’m reading these childish, foul, name-calling posts on Facebook by those who have no clue about “Truth” in regards to what children were exposed to and suffered through in long-ago days. They have been manipulated into thinking its all about the unmarked graves. We know now that the…

“But war is made for the satisfaction of men’s ambition; for the sake of worldly gain to the few, terrible misery is brought to numberless homes, breaking the hearts of hundreds of men and women! How many widows mourn their husbands, how many stories of savage cruelty do we hear! How many little orphaned children…

That little song by the Statler Brothers has been going through my head lately. If I had graduated from high school it would have been in that year – 1957. Can’t recall what provincial government was in power in those days, but most BC rural schools only went to Grade 10. To get your Grades…

…… I am a resident of Silver Birch Lodge Seniors Residence . My husband and I reside in one of the North facing units, located within a stone’s throw from Highway 16. Directly across the highway on the south side are the remains of a huge fire-ravaged hotel and a series of smaller businesses. The…

Delayed Trials for Abusers Why are trials for those accused of and/or having confessed to sexual crimes against children delayed for years, sometimes for decades????!!!!! When a crime is committed by a person with a mental disorder, there are facilities where they can be housed , medicated and assessed They are under guard so they…

There is Power in the Crowd Let me tell you how I woke up. I was on the busMoving up the street -when we reached MainAnd Hastings -we were stopped by a crowdOf protesters. How they marched down the through wayWith signs and banners flying in the summer breeze.“What are they protesting?” I asked the…