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Welcome to the Resolvve Podcast, where we talk about all things mental health, resilience, and personal growth. On this Podcast, we will speak with mental health educators and clinicians across the world, who will share their expertise and wisdom, providing tips, tools, and strategies that can make a positive difference in your life. We'll also share blogs, poems, and other forms of media along the way. Made with production help from Atara Shields Tile
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Braving the Waves: There's Always Something Left
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Episode Notes This week's poem and episode explore a story—one of a young person navigating the grief of losing both their mother and their dog. But there is much more to this story, as there are always many layers of grief. This story brings us alongside someone re-writing what love’s residue is and how forgiveness isn’t linear. Here's an excerpt …
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Episode Notes This week's blog explains how social workers can provide therapy. Listen to learn what differentiates them from other mental health practitioners. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client …
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Braving the Waves: I'd Never Been Outside At Night
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Episode Notes This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a Villanelle, which is a French form of poetry alternating two repeating lines. This episode is inspired by the famous poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night”, by Dylan Thomas. Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack…
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Episode Notes This week, our blog discusses some strategies you can use to stop being a people pleaser and become more assertive. Read the full blog at: www.resolvve.ca/blog/how-to-stop-being-a-people-pleaser Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. N…
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Episode Notes This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem about someone who has recently experienced sexual assault or violence. When they encounter a kind person in a coffee shop the morning after—who treats them very differently—they wrestle with the many emotions, feelings, and memories that arise. Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & vi…
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Episode Notes This week's blog post discusses what you can do to make the most out of therapy. Read here: www.resolvve.ca/blog/6-tips-to-get-the-most-out-of-therapy Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-cli…
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Episode Notes This week's poem and episode use a Tanka, a Japanese form of poetry usually a single unbroken sentence with 31 syllables. The number of lines (when these poems are translated into English) is typically 3-5 to spotlight the twist or turn in the last third or so of the poem. With the beginning of a new school year and the approach of fa…
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Episode Notes This week's blog delves into common misconceptions about therapy. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.…
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Episode Notes This week, Mikaela Brewer’s poem explores a student’s experience of feeling overwhelmed nearing back-to-school season. Sometimes, though the best preparation is soaking up every last ounce of summer, we forget that this includes rest (the same way an extra few hours of sleep before an exam will often be more beneficial than a few more…
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Episode Notes This week's blog discusses how to overcome driving OCD. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.c…
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Episode Notes On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that explores the painful experiences some people have around their birthdays. As with any milestone, birthdays can be marked and haunted by emptiness and feelings that we haven’t accomplished or fulfilled our purpose enough (among other things). This poem attempts to refra…
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Braving the Waves: When the Headlights Come On
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Episode Notes On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem about someone who didn’t know how to help a struggling parent/guardian who offered abundant love, imagination, and play while they were alive. Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!): I …
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Episode Notes On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer explores the moment we recognize that someone loves us, whether this is a family member, partner, friend, etc. Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!): My first time feelingalive, if for a moment in …
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Episode Notes This week's blog explains ego-dystonic thoughts and how to treat them with exposure and response prevention therapy. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. …
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Episode Notes On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that explores how to create a safe space in your mind—a place only for you. It also discusses how difficult this can be among so many other thoughts, distractions, and constant content consumption. The poem in the episode is a sestina, which includes a repetitive echo by us…
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Episode Notes This week's podcast discusses therapist confidentiality and the extreme cases in which a therapist is legally obligated to break confidentiality. We also discuss how therapists navigate suicidal ideation, and whether these thoughts are also reported. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational conten…
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Episode Notes This week on Braving the Waves, Mikaela reads a poem about a long, brimming conversation between strangers on a long flight. Near the end of the exchange, someone speaks the phrase, “stay with us,” which, out of context, can be interpreted many ways. In most, it’s an offer of comfort and hospitality, such as, “stay with us when/if you…
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Mental Health Meds Can Make It Hard to Cope with Hot Weather
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Episode Notes In this week's blog post, we wrote about the mental health meds that might make it harder for you to tolerate hot weather. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Reso…
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Episode Notes Mikaela's poem this week brings us alongside someone going for a walk after a harmful argument. As they process, they find themselves questioning the balance between necessary solitude and approaching apology with vulnerability and openness. There is something to be said for needing alone time and space after a disagreement, especiall…
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Episode Notes Mikaela Brewer’s poem and episode this week are a bit of a mantra/reminder to carry in your pocket, especially as things feel heavy. The month of June is celebratory in many ways, including Pride, Juneteenth, Indigenous History Month, and Men’s Mental Health Month, among many more. And we know it’s important for joy and advocacy to co…
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Episode Notes This week's blog introduces the concept of neurodiversity. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvv…
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Episode Notes This week’s Braving the Waves poem and episode explore the feelings associated with reconnecting with a mentor, friend, coach, teacher, or anyone who offered guidance to you as a kid or teenager. The poem takes place after lost contact and many years have passed between these two people, which I think happens more often than we admit.…
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Episode Notes This week's blog discusses some ways that you can help support loved ones with OCD. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek professional help if …
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Braving the Waves: Packing for Graduation
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Episode Notes This week's poem from our sister podcast, Braving the Waves explores memory, especially those valuable to recall as we approach graduation (which I know many of us are at this time), well before the tasks, lists, and thoughts surrounding moving, university, or a first full-time job set in. Think of these tasks, lists, and thoughts as …
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What is a Qualifying Registered Psychotherapist?
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Episode Notes This week's blog explains what it means when a psychotherapist is "qualifying". Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek professional help if need…
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Episode Notes This week's poem and episode discuss climate change anxiety, grief, outrage, sadness, frustration, and the myriad of emotions that come up when we’re worried about our planet. Most importantly, my hope for this episode is that it conveys the message that making space to feel nature’s pain is love, and love is the prerequisite for just…
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Episode Notes This week's episode discusses the mental health benefits of journaling. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek professional help if needed. Go t…
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Braving the Waves: If Hindsight Isn't Twenty-Twenty
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Episode Notes This week's poem and episode dive into the common phrase “hindsight is twenty-twenty,” asking us to think about looking back with a bit more nuance. For example, seeing an experience more clearly in retrospect shouldn’t diminish how it was felt at the time, particularly how these feelings are remembered in the body and soul (when our …
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How to Support Someone Struggling with their Mental Health
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Episode Notes In this audio blog, we discuss some ways that you can support a friend or loved one struggling with mental health. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Pl…
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Episode Notes In this week's audio blog, we answer a question that are therapists get frequently: "How often do I need to go to therapy?" Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Res…
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Episode Notes This week’s poem and episode discuss the painful feeling of longing to be like someone else, which can often be confused with both looking up to someone and idolizing them. Of course, these are very different things! It’s a wonderful thing to be inspired by someone’s vibe or style, but this can easily trickle into self-worth/esteem/co…
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Episode Notes This week's audio blog is about panic disorder. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca to get…
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Braving the Waves: Ode to Coming Home from College
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Episode Notes This week, Mikaela reads a poem about coming home from college/university for the spring and summer (though it can absolutely apply to returning home after having been away a long time, too). The poem and episode look at the possible tension between the comforts/familiarity of a childhood home and the newfound freedom/independence we …
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Is Social Media Causing A Youth Mental Health Crisis?
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Episode Notes This week's audio blog explores whether social media is the cause of the youth mental health crisis. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek prof…
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Episode Notes This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that explores parenthood, but in the voice of a toddler who has a new little sibling. Being a parent is a beautiful experience, but it is also exhausting (and equally so at different points while a child grows up). And, perhaps especially when children are very young, it may feel like your physic…
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Episode Notes In this week's audio blog we discuss where you can find free therapy and counselling services in Toronto, Ottawa, and beyond. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for R…
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Braving the Waves: Happy Birthday Unsinkable
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Episode Notes The poem & episode this week presented by Mikaela Brewer are special birthday editions for Unsinkable’s 5th anniversary. Please be sure to check out the resources, programs, partnerships, and action items Mikaela has shared in this episode. Thank you so much to our podcast guests from season 1 for lending their voices & words to this …
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Episode Notes This week's blog discusses cognitive processing therapy for PTSD and other conditions caused by trauma. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek p…
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Episode Notes This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem and explores fears around trying therapy for the first time, juxtaposed with the experience of telling someone you love them. We step into a stream of consciousness as someone journals their thoughts, navigating hesitancies around how therapy may or may not help them. It’s easy to feel like you h…
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Episode Notes This week, we discuss issues around career anxiety on our blog. Read more at resolvve.ca/blog. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek profession…
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Episode Notes This week, Mikaela reads a poem about bedtime procrastination. The poem and discussion challenge the colloquial understanding of this experience alongside its common coping mechanisms, questioning the environments that create such behaviour—beyond our intentions and self-regulation. The poem asks us to consider: is this a lack of self…
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Episode Notes This week we dive into the cost of accessing therapy in Ontario. Read more on our blog at www.resolvve.ca/blog. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Pleas…
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4 Ways Therapy Helps Students Cope with the Stress of Job Hunting
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Episode Notes This week's blog discusses how a therapist can help you cope with the stress of the job search. Read more at resolvve.ca/blog. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for …
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Episode Notes This week, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that explores the relationship between mental health and money. Perhaps especially right now, many of us are feeling pinched by rising costs among much else. In particular, this episode unpacks the complicated common phrase and belief that “money isn’t everything.” Though it might not be, we need…
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Episode Notes This week's blog post introduces post-traumatic stress disorder, its symptoms, its treatment and provides a list of resources for more information. You can find the full post on resolvve.ca/blog. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. …
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Episode Notes This week, Mikaela Brewer reads her poem about living "the best life" and the mucky parts of being people that we sometimes hide. This poem and episode rips off the bandaid of a few good examples of these (which in truth, make us more human. It’s amusing how desperately we try to conceal bodily functions so deeply out of our control).…
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Episode Notes This week's blog discusses impostor syndrome. Read more at resolvve.ca/blog. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve. Please seek professional help if needed.…
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Episode Notes Mikaela Brewer reads a poem this week for International Women's Day on March 8th, inspired by America Ferrera’s speech in the Barbie movie. In the format of a pantoum poetic form, which repeats lines in succeeding stanzas, the contradictions women face are perpetually repeated and in conversation with each other—overlapping and taking…
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Episode Notes This week's blog discusses the reasons that people might want to go to therapy. As always, you can read more at resolvve.ca/blog. Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way f…
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Episode Notes This week Mikaela Brewer reads a poem centered around words for our sister podcast, Braving the Waves. The poem and episode today explore longing for words when we don’t have any. One of our deepest aches, especially while navigating the depth of pain or peak of joy, is to have words at our disposal to give shape and meaning to these …
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