Growing Through It with Abuse

Growing Through It

Today’s guest has always been driven to overcome the challenges he’s faced by wanting to help others. Today he shares about trauma at an early age that has had repercussions for a very long time, including suicide attempts, incarceration and homelessness. At a few different times in his young adult life, he has connected with Roots to Harvest. He’s focused on making changes and connecting to people, including his young daughter.

As a heads up, this episode talks about suicide, abuse and neglect. If you’re listening and feel like these things might bring up your own experiences, please reach out to someone you trust. Look to the following for resources in Canada: Suicide Crisis Line: Text 686868 or call 1-800-668-6868

Growing Through It shares stories from young people who all have the common experience of being a part of Roots to Harvest, a human centred, food focused, not for profit in Thunder Bay, ON.

Growing Through It is a project of Roots to Harvest and a part of the Great Big Stories Project through Frayme, a global network of youth mental health resources. Each episode was recorded at Roots to Harvest in Thunder Bay with interviews conducted by Lak Williams and Shaynah Twance, and sound engineering by the folks at Podigy.

Roots to Harvest lives, works, and plays on the traditional territories of the Fort William First Nation people, signatories to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850. We strive to not only learn from and with, but also reconcile our relationship with the Anishinaabe people in this area, who have cared for and stewarded this land for centuries.

This project was made possible through generous funding from Frayme, a national knowledge mobilization network in youth mental health and substance use practices, and RBC's Future Launch Program.