VOLUME 3 – ISSUE 4, Dec 2022
Feature article by Linda Thyer
and much more…
Healing the Planet
Dr. Linda Thyer is a family physician of European descent. She is a deep appreciator and supporter of the Indigenous world view, especially traditional wisdom regarding the Earth, and aims to lift Indigenous voices. Anxious, distressed, and occasionally coughing or short of breath, my patients arrive at my family medicine practice displaying the physical and mental health impacts of the climate crisis such as the droughts which have devitalized the rainforests of the Canadian west coast. At COP27 in Egypt, many minds were turned to climate change and reducing the causative carbon emissions through various policies and technologies. But will these be enough to save our wounded planet and all of humanity? The signs are clear that we are in…
A Nurse’s Call For Action
Students settle in for a subject that is both compelling and disturbing. They’re a mix of first year and senior level students from programs at the University of British Columbia…
Poem: We are of the earth
And to this earth We shall return Sun lives inside of us too Let us be A shimmering On the surface Of being While the hunters’ guns Echo in the…
Ele-Mental Health
Here I am in the 21st century I have to say it ain’t as cool as I hoped it would be. Steve Earle When despair grows in me and I…
Poem – Forest: Broken Open
A fall, A break Pain, Dazed Shimmering light Falling through Trees embrace. Laughter, sighs Peace timeless Wonder of Life larger than Life, Emerges Nothing’s the same Boundless Gratitude -Tom Culham…
Reflections In Challenging Times
For decades I have given considerable thought to the interplay and interconnection between environment and wellbeing. I believe wellness may be correlated with the value and connection accruing in the…
Mind, Nature, and Three Aphorisms
What if the movements and obstructions of a river, and the movements of human suffering, that which we often call “mental illness,” might actually be seen as one and the…
The Oilpatch Disinformation Campaign
In June 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen sounded the alarm about global warming at a US Senate hearing on climate change. On the following day, his message was a front-page…
Comment: Cherries in the Snow
Not yet December at this writing and the snow is flying. Just another reminder that the Climate Crisis is upon us now. We’ve gone from inconvenience: too cold, too hot,…