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Decluttering Hasn’t Just Left My House Neater—It’s Challenged My Sense Of Who I Am
After cancer and a year without shopping, purging and organizing was the next step.
Aviva Rubin
13 minutes
Books
'I Felt Like A Scuba Diver Whose Tanks Had Run Out Of Air.' Radio Host Erin Davis On Life After Her Daughter’s Death
There is no one way to grieve. Some need to cocoon, others to yell. Erin Davis talks about how she needed to remember how to laugh and how to breathe.
Erin Davis
5 minutes
Real Life Stories
The Story Of The Syrian Family That Lost 7 Children In A Tragic Nova Scotia House Fire
The Barhos dreamed of a family with lots of children and joy. When civil war broke out in Syria, they fled for the safety of Canada. They loved their new lives—until unspeakable tragedy struck.
Lindsay Jones, Maclean's
6 minutes
Real Life Stories
I Wanted To Be A Mother So Badly
I had been trying to get pregnant for two and half years. Everything about me just felt wrong. My angry, frustrated, heartbroken experience at an infertility support group.
Wendy Litner
7 minutes
Real Life Stories
A Mother With Cancer To Her Children: ‘When Words Fail Me…At Least I Can Say I Love You’
Lana Dyment on the despairing consequences of ‘chemobrain’ and how through the fog, she sees what really matters.
Lana Dyment, Maclean's
6 minutes
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