Meet Maz, Resilience Story #5 Healing, Metaphors, Spirituality

Maz immigrated from Iran to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Fleeing from a war-torn country, she moved to Canada for safety. Little did she know that in Canada the abuse would continue by her father physically, and her Canadian peers through racism. She tells us her story of resilience and healing. Spirituality, strong core beliefs, looking inwards, and using descriptive, expressive images that clearly articulate paradoxes in the physical realm. Maz, in this interview, vulnerably unfolds her wings from her core, and shares with us true messages of love, kindness and peace - wise gifts of words that we can all use to strengthen ourselves along our own healing journeys.

PodcastChristina Gillmore14 June 2020Resilience, posttraumatic growth, Two trees metaphor, Metaphors, Storyteller, Narrative, Iran, Abuse, Physical abuse, Healing, Healing journey, Cultures, Diversity

Meet Teresa, Resilience story #4 Education, 'faith days', an established writer

In this episode, I talk with the creative, vibrant, envisioned, educated, kind, funny, storytelling Teresa…

Raised by a single father in the 1970s and ‘80s, at a time when it was not common and the courts were heavily biased in favour of the mother. Her parents separated when she was a toddler, so she had very few memories of them being together. During her early childhood and teenage years, there was sometimes a lot of conflict (yelling, sometimes physical arguments) in their household…

PodcastChristina Gillmore24 May 2020Resilience, posttraumatic growth, Strength, Education, Writing, Healing, Healing journey, Grit