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YWCA Campaign Sheds Light
on ‘Invisible’ Crisis
of Concussions & Domestic Violence

 

When we think of concussions, we think of sports. Over the past decade, athletes and advocates have helped us understand the seriousness of concussions, leading to more research, new safety protocols and standards for sports-related concussion treatment.

A new campaign launched by the YWCA Metro Vancouver, in partnership with former NHL player Trevor Linden, says it estimates that for every NHL concussion, thousands of women in Canada suffer the same injury because of intimate partner violence.

A photo of a woman holding her head in her hands.

(Photo Illustration/CBC News)

By Mouhamad Rachini, CBC Radio,

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/concussions-intimate-partner-violence-1.6849664

It’s been five years since Rachel was violently abused and concussed by her ex-husband, but she still feels the effects of his assault today.

“The first 12 weeks were the worst, and then I had a relapse about six months later,” said Rachel, whose real name CBC is protecting for privacy and safety reasons.

“But at this point, I have some issues that are post-concussive syndrome that … don’t show any signs of improving,” she told The Current guest host Mark Kelley.

She says she has accommodations at work to help her through her day-to-day, special glasses to deal with light sensitivity, and was even able to see a neurologist to help her through recovery.

But while she’s grateful for the support, she wonders if earlier intervention would’ve helped her deal with her concussion better.

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How Frighteningly Strong Meth
Has Supercharged Homelessness

Skid Row in Los Angeles. Photo: David Swanson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

By Benjamin Hart, Intelligencer, December 6th, 2022

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-homelessness.html

Sam Quinones has covered gangs, crime, and the border for 35 years, including a ten-year stint at the L.A. Times.

He established himself as a leading voice on the opioid epidemic with the 2015 book Dreamland, which told the story of how prescription-drug companies and a sophisticated black-tar heroin operation in Mexico wreaked havoc across the U.S.

In his follow-up, 2021’s The Least of Us, Quinones focused on the rise of two synthetic drugs: fentanyl, which had become ascendant in the intervening years, and a frighteningly potent form of meth that can quickly inflict tremendous damage on users.

The extreme effects of these drugs, Quinones believes, has worsened the homelessness crisis in America.

I spoke with Quinones about the ravages of meth and fentanyl, how they have exacerbated social problems around the country, and what local and federal governments can do to stem the problem.

In your book, The Least of Us, and in an Atlantic piece last year, you wrote about the rise of very pure meth, which is produced in a different way than the variety that used to flow into the U.S.

The effects have been devastating, but this still seems like a fairly under-the-radar phenomenon. Has it gotten more attention since you wrote about it?


My book highlighted this problem that people were seeing all across the country, and now people are trying to understand why it’s happening. And I think more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the meth coming from Mexico is being produced with much more potency. [Read more…]

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Being a Reader

 

I work as a reader online (to book an appointment please go: here) and in person at TAP, Fort Langley, corner of Mavis and Glover.

When I do readings I use the Tarot, and a deck I have created myself called, Cards of Balance, that focuses on Universal Laws, Divine Qualities, our dimensional reality connected to a 13 chakra system.

Often I talk about the importance of sitting still in the heart — out of the mind — imagining a pebble drop from mind to heart and sitting there heart listening.

It’s quite different from being in the mind and meditating.

With consistency, one can become quite adept at communicating with our guidance, through the heart.

The other thing I always tend to mention when I’m a reader is how important it is to be balanced, in equal Love for the Divine Mother and the Divine Father, which relates back to our own mother and father, or our early life caregivers.

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Face Masks
for Admiral Seymour School
& Total Donated

March 30th, I found my way to the office of Admiral Seymour School, 1130 Keefer Street, Vancouver to deliver face masks.

It’s a strange thing when the outside door to the office is locked due to a pandemic.

Luckily, 2 children running by said to go up some outside stairs, and once inside I wound my way around to the office, looking at pink arrows on the floor designating which side of the hall to stay on.

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Wisteria Acres Gong Bath
October 18, 2020
with the JVA Women

Krista Brown of Wisteria Acres organized a gong bath
for the women in recovery from John Volken Academy.

Sherry Ulansky was masterful with her gongs
as we lay on yoga mats in the dimmed lights and let go. . . [Read more…]