Joyful songs of healing
Dawn Beirnes has watched the public’s understanding of mental illnesses change over the years, along with her own. Beirnes was diagnosed more than 30 years ago with bipolar affective disorder and later, borderline personality disorder. Before then, as a young person...
Happy Father’s Day!
New father Mark Thompson and his wife Kristen, of Winnipeg, welcomed their first-born child Blake Elliot Thompson into the world on Sunday, May 26, at St. Boniface Hospital – fewer than 48 hours before this interview. Mark, who is self-employed as a mechanical...
The long and winding road to healing
It took Melissa Gowryluk over a year to feel comfortable enough to share her story with others. “Now that I have, it’s changed me.” “I feel more positive,” said the former St. Boniface Hospital patient. In January 2017, while she was away on a business...