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There are moments when words run out. When the worry is too loud to think through. When stress does not sit politely in your head, but moves into your chest, your breath, your stomach, the whole of you. You may…
Every year on February 15, the world turns its attention to children with cancer. It is a day for the kids in hospital gowns who should be in school. It is a day for the mother who has memorized the…
Every February, you might notice people trading their usual clothes for something bright and red. That is Wear Red Canada, a day set aside for heart health. The red shirt is the easy part. The harder, quieter truth underneath it…
There are worries we say out loud, and there are the ones we carry quietly. A test result we are waiting on. A diagnosis we have told no one. The way we feel in our own skin when the lights…
Some of the hardest parts of Turner syndrome do not show up on a growth chart or a heart scan. They show up in the quiet. The girl who notices she is shorter than every friend in the class photo.…
Every year on February 6, the world marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. It is a hard day to read about. For some women, it is not a topic at all. It is a memory…
There is a kind of tired that a nap does not fix. You go through the motions of the day, you answer the messages you have to answer, and somewhere in there you stop doing the small things that used…
Some changes happen to your body, and then they keep happening to the rest of your life. A feeding tube is one of them. It can keep you alive and keep you strong, and it can also sit quietly between…
Every February, Canadians wear red for Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Week. Families share photos. People tell stories they have carried quietly for years. Most of the attention goes to the physical heart, to the surgeries and the scans and the…
Slowly losing the ability to read a loved one's message, recognize a familiar face, or look out at a view you have always known is one of the quietest, hardest losses a person can carry. For many older Canadians living…
