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...
My dance with life
In desperation, I pulled the fire alarm… Long before then, it all started with sleepless nights. I was 15 years old, and before long, my tossing and turning had become the onset of my mental illness. Suddenly, I couldn’t tell the difference between what was real...