By Colin McGregor On the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2023: Selena Fortier, who gives conferences (as she puts it, “showferences”) on domestic violence, offers the following different solutions to domestic violence situations: The importance of witnesses: Offering compassion to people who experience domestic violence. […] See more
By Colin McGregor For an hour and a half from the stage of Bistro Le St-Cath, Selena Fortier took her audience through a wide range of emotions, from laughter to sadness, from rage to tears, even including incomprehension. And above all, there was humor as […] See more
By Dominic Desmarais At the time of the new millennium, in the year 2000, Michele experienced a descent into hell. Traumatized by the death of two of her friends in a road accident in the Gaspé, she left for Quebec City. And there, she lost […] See more
Vegas, New York, Dubai, Asia, Hawaii, Australia, Morocco, Mexico… The globe-trotting singer-songwriter Izabelle never thought that one day she’d find herself in a toxic relationship tainted by episodes of conjugal violence. This artist freed herself by writing the song Bipolar Love. By Frédéric Lebeuf Now […] See more
My first idea was to write on the subject of conjugal violence. By Delphine Caubet I wanted to know what goes on inside the head of a man who mistreats his spouse. After several interviews and a lot of information collecting, I had to concede […] See more
My first idea was to write on the subject of conjugal violence. By Delphine Caubet I wanted to know what goes on inside the head of a man who mistreats his spouse. After several interviews and a lot of information collecting, I had to concede […] See more
Today, hundreds of men and women write me personally on social media. Victims of their pasts, of their silence. The question that most often pops up: what do you do to heal, to beat depression? By Ingrid Falaise I am neither a therapist nor a […] See more
This sickness of the soul kidnapped me one morning without warning. My pyjamas became my uniform. My tousled hair became my miserable, undignified, fallen crown. I feared the end of my vacation and couldn’t imagine the idea of going out and meeting people, a false […] See more
Sunday, June 12, 2007. From afar I hear a steady drip-drip-drip of water falling, like clockwork, every second, into the bathroom sink. Pling. Pling. Pling. By Ingrid Falaise I don’t have the strength to get up out of bed, my refuge since Friday. And yet […] See more
Friday. The sun beats down on Montréal. I’m driving west in my car. A hundred souls await my arrival. On this night, I’m off to give my umpteenth seminar. But this time, the audience will be made up of teenagers. Nerves disrupt my thoughts. When […] See more
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