Voices In Recovery Podcast

This week, our friend, Peter, returns and shares about the last few very tumultuous years in recovery - since covid. He shared about how deeply his connections have shifted and adjusted through medical distress, emotional upheaval, and incredible learning. I appreciate being able to sit down and talk about the sometimes debilitating road to happy destiny. Talking about recovery is one thing, living it is another. Thank you Peter

This week, Aline stops by and shares their incredible journey through early trauma, continued trauma, into addiction, and today where she's living a life in recovery. Her openness and vulnerability are a sign of her courage moving forward through recovery. She tries to utilize her journey to inspire and encourage others. Thank you Aline, we appreciate you.

This week, I sit down with my close friends Michelle and Darcy Robinson. We talk about twenty years of sobriety, anti racism work, racism, literature, and the huge concept of cancelling people. I have said this before and I am sure that I will say it again at some point; it always comes back to how many people did not cancel me when I was living like a man with no relations and the result has been my continued survival and continued education. The support by other humans is not only essential, but often includes humans who may not see the world as I do. They may even see the world dramatically different, yet still somehow are able to care for others along their path. I encourage everyone to find their way through the mire. Allow anger to be real and treat it as the gift it really is. Through the anger, there is more light to be found. This journey is never ending. Thank you my friends for taking the time with me 

This week, Pulkit and Dhaniket stop by and literally blow our collective minds. The world feels so ugly these days - it made sense to bring them on the podcast because these fellows are trying to inject hope wherever they can. I am going to let them speak for themselves, as throughout the episode I find myself in awe of what they're doing and are trying to do. We talked about some of the harsh things going on and we all realized that in so many countries, so many people are in danger every minute of every day. Thank you both for coming down to jump on the podcast and really, thank you for what you're doing out there for physical and mental health

This week, we share part two of Karrie-Lynn's story. This week we dive deeper into the process of their transition. I open up about my own queerness and we have a wonderful conversation. You are a gift to our world - thank you for coming back on.

This week's guest, Daphne stops by and shares all about Black Pride YYC and their own personal journey. They came to Canada from Nigeria where it is still illegal to be Queer. Once here, they set out intent on being their truest self. I won't give spoilers; however, we talk about the beginnings and the why's Black Pride YYC was necessary and formed they have grown incredibly in a year and throw incredible events. We talk a lot about racism in Canada and around the world. Thank you for coming on, Daphne, we appreciate all that you do out there!

This week's guests, Comrade Yulia Borscht and Dani Phantom stopped by to share their stories and we talk everything under the beautifully queer sun! I'm not going to lie, most people will just fall in love with them so beware. I was able to attend their show, Housing Crisis, before sitting down with them and chatting away so I already fell in love with the humans they are. Thank you both!!!

This week's guest, Karrie-Lynn, stops by and opens up about their journey. We talk about very adult subject matter, please consider this a content warning. Our conversation is one of those that I think about long after we are done talking. Thank you for your inspiration, bravery, and for your service!

This week's guest, Mohamed stops by to talk about Palestine. He is from there and a lot of his family and many friends still live there under constant threat of annihilation. We talk about the ongoing genocide in Palestine  and we talk a about the Congo and the Sudan as well. Knowing colonialism and it's resulting genocide can continue under any guise in any country is awful. Thank you for sharing what must be difficult to live through in the telling.

This week, Michelle and I sit down, helping each other sort through and essentially process our shifts in perspective on the Calgary Police. We are angry and we are among many, who feel just as we do. I'm sure even angrier considering having been victimized by the police on May 9th, 2024 at the University of Calgary and May 11, 2024 at the University of Alberta. We all have a right to our anger and I hope we honour that in whatever way we need to.