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Raquel
Mar 31, 20238 min read
International Transgender Day of Visibility
Your allyship is needed now more than ever to ensure the safety of trans individuals. What is TDOV? First held on March 31, 2009,...
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Raquel
Feb 9, 20236 min read
Toronto City Council Continues to Fail Unhoused People
City councillors decide that people freezing to death isn’t a public health crisis. Yesterday, despite the recommendations by the Toronto...
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Raquel
Jan 25, 20237 min read
Bell Let's Talk About Practicing What You Preach
A look at the good and the bad to come out of #BellLetsTalkDay Introduction to Bell Let’s Talk Day Bell Let's Talk Day was founded in...
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Raquel
Aug 24, 20222 min read
What People Don't Tell You About Grief
How stigma makes those grieving even more confused. Learning to Cope The pain of loss never fully goes away, we just learn to cope. But...
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Raquel
Aug 3, 20222 min read
What is a Distress Tolerance Kit?
Introduction Distress tolerance refers to an individual's ability to manage emotions, or distress, in a healthy way that prevents one...
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Raquel
Jul 13, 20222 min read
What is the ACE Study and Why Is It Still Relevant?
What is the ACE Study? The adverse childhood experiences (ACE) study was a study conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997. It is...
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Raquel
Jun 22, 20223 min read
OCD is Not Enjoyable
Disclaimer: Some of this is me speaking about my own experience, and some is from online sources that describe my thoughts better than I...
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Raquel
Jun 15, 202210 min read
It's Time to Decriminalize Drugs in Canada
The catastrophic effects set in motion by the Canadian opioid epidemic will continue to disproportionately hurt those negatively affected...
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Raquel
Jun 8, 20221 min read
Dealing with Grief: A Toolkit
People don't like to talk about death. I realized that pretty quickly after losing my dad in February 2020. The pandemic made it a lot...
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Raquel
May 27, 20224 min read
The Harms of Toxic Positivity
We’ve all heard some variation of toxic positivity. One definition of toxic positivity is “the overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic...
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Raquel
May 21, 20223 min read
Caring For Mental Health Versus Mental Illness
I cannot proceed with talking about mental health on here without defining what I mean when I talk about mental health versus mental...
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