My teachers

Fides Krucker

Kim Brodey

Continuum Movement

Doug Friesen

Kim Snider

Stephen Wei

Taught me everything I know about comics :)

Amber McZeal

Tom Hart

Myrna Martin

Muriel Shockley

Books I like

A selection of titles from my library that have shaped my health & teaching journey.

I don’t have any financial relationship to these authors or publishers, I just want to share what I love. I won’t judge you for where you get your books, but I will encourage you to use Bookshop.org because it supports small, independent bookstores against the monopoly of Amazon. We resist.

Resources I draw upon

Yoga with Adriene

I practice with these videos to maintain my arms, neck, hands, and upper body health for making comics:

Yawning

This article by Fides Krucker explains it, but yawning has become a crucial part of my every day navigations.

It can also be found in another format in her book, Reclaiming Calliope.

Journalspeak, The Cure for Chronic Pain

I don’t endorse anything as a cure for everyone, but the name of this woman’s work is not the best part of it. The practice of journalspeak is a very intuitive and helpful one, though I personally cut the timelines down to 5 minutes or 10 minutes, if I need to.

Here are her instructions for Journalspeak.

Try and see how you feel :)

School of New Feminist Thought Podcast

I used to listen to these podcasts more often than I do now, but I draw upon them for reminders from time to time:

First Light NL

To connect with my community and learn other ways of relating to people, law, spirituality, and the land, I attend events at First Light NL.

The Indigenous Cultural Training was a good starting point, and now I am finding ways to continue to learn from this organization and its community members.

There are many friendship centres all over Turtle Island, you can likely find one like First Light in your area.

I’ve heard about TRE from many sources over the years, though I only recently tried it myself. The effect I experienced was WILD, and helped so profoundly I don’t yet have words. If you try these exercises, do so with great care for yourself.

Here is the Youtube video I follow.

Tension and Trauma Release Exercises