Rest and Recovery to Optimize Your Health Goals

 For many people, staying active and regularly exercising is a non-negotiable addition to their daily routine. But whether you are working towards specific fitness goals or simply wanting to feel better in your body, more isn’t always better in the fitness world.  There are many ways to make the most

Ottawa resident Séan McCann and founder of Great Big Sea to release memoir

 Séan McCann, founder of Great Big Sea will release a memoir in April titled One Good Reason: A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery, Music, and Love. The narrative moves back and forth between Séan and his wife Andrea Aragon’s points of view as they move through his addiction, and recovery.

Learn Laugh and Listen at Recovery Day Ottawa Benefit

 Images courtesy of Recovery Day Ottawa People with addictions are weak. They bring it on themselves. They are just lazy.  They need to grow up. These are the types of stereotypical misconceptions people like Gord Garner strive to remove every day. As the Festival Producer for Ottawa’s annual Recovery Day, Garner

Sheldon Kennedy Wants You to Talk About Sexual Abuse

 Photo courtesy of swiftcurrentdoc.com. For those of you who are lifelong hockey fans, you probably know the name Sheldon Kennedy, and the association might not be completely positive. He played for the Calgary Flames, the Boston Bruins and the Red Wings, and during that time, fans saw his career flounder

Eating Disorders and Men: a Silent Epidemic?

 By Brooke Peloquin. For Troy Roness, body image was something he struggled with for his whole life. The divorce of his parents and the pressure of perfection had a dangerous effect on the reflection he saw in the mirror. When Roness was just 18, he began restricting food and compulsively

LIGHT at the end of the tunnel

 Eating disorders push perfectionists into dark worlds where all they want is to be light, and all they need is a ray of it. Produced and performed by Lisa Jeans, Light is a theatrical duet between a live performer and audiovisual technology like video projections, live sound and original electronic

Man’s Best Friend and Life Saver: Relieving the Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Service Dogs

 PHOTO CREDIT: Sylvain Chartrand The bridge was high enough with sharp rocks beneath that ensured death would be imminent.  He carefully tucked his suicide note between the lamp and photo frame next to his friend’s favourite TV chair and headed out into the bitter night towards the bridge that he envisioned would