Bernadine Fox brings a rare and powerful combination of lived experience, long-term disability rights advocacy, and creative insight to her role as host and producer of ReThreading Madness, the award-winning radio show and podcast that dares to shift how we think about mental health. A recipient of the 2022 Courage to Come Back Award , Bernadine is a white settler of Scottish, Irish, and French heritage with a familial connection to the Tsuut'ina nation. She has spent over 30 years advocating for those with lived experience of mental health challenges including survivors of trauma and therapy harm. She is an intersectional feminist, artist, and author of Coming to Voice: Surviving an Abusive Therapist —a memoir that confronts the devastating misuse of power in therapeutic relationships. Bernadine is not a clinician, but she is a deeply informed mental health advocate with firsthand knowledge of trauma, CPTSD, and disability. Her background includes decades of work as a support worker for survivors of severe childhood trauma, a trauma consultant, and public speaker. She has led expressive arts groups in collaboration with Richmond Mental Health and Gallery Gachet, where she also served on the board and helped publish The Ear magazine. She has served on the board of such organizations as Kickstart (Disability Arts and Culture) which focused on breaking down barriers to creative access for people with disabilities. What sets Bernadine apart as a radio host is her unwavering commitment to telling the truth—even when it's uncomfortable. She doesn't shy away from difficult conversations; she invites them. With compassion and clarity, she brings forward voices that are often silenced, challenges harmful narratives, and explores the messy realities of mental health, trauma, and recovery. ReThreading Madness is more than a show. Under Bernadine's guidance, it's a platform for unfiltered, survivor-centered dialogue—one that refuses to pathologize trauma and instead builds community through shared truth. RTM won the Breaking Barriers CRABO award through the NCRA. Bernadine currently lives in the forest with two cats, raises her grandchild, and continues to create, speak, and advocate for a world where mental health care is ethical, accessible, and just. ReThreading Madness is produced with the support of Vancouver Coop Radio CFRO 100.FM on the ancestral and unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We extend our gratitude and appreciation to the Indigenous people who have been living and working on this land from time immemorial. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rethreading-madness--5675300/support .
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Signup to Generate a PitchBernadine Fox brings a rare and powerful combination of lived experience, long-term disability rights advocacy, and creative insight to her role as host and producer of ReThreading Madness, the award-winning radio show and podcast that dares to shift how we think about mental health.
Recent episodes include "Institutional Betrayal: #IAmJaneDoe Movement" (27 October 2026, 60 minutes), "Never Never Never Give Up with Rose777" (20 October 2026, 60 minutes), and "No Compass, No Boundaries: The Writers of Off the Map" (19 October 2026, 60 minutes).
ReThreading Madness publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 60 minutes.
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Institutional Betrayal: #IAmJaneDoe Movement Trigger Warning: Discuss about sexual assault. Most of us have had the experience of going to someone in authority, someone who was supposed to help, and instead we were...
Episode #25
Never Never Never Give Up with Rose777 Rose 777 has rebuilt her life so many times she has lost count. At 17, she was taken from her grandparents’ home in the middle of the night and sent to a Utah wilderness troubled...
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No Compass, No Boundaries: The Writers of Off the Map This week on Rethreading Madness, Bernadine Fox sits down with Seema Shaw, self-taught visual artist, writer, and organizer of Professional Artistic Growth Made...
Episode #21
Stories That Carry Us: Wanda John-Kehewin and Ying Wang on Trauma, Art, and the Weight We Inherit In this episode of ReThreading Madness, Bernadine Fox speaks with two artists whose work refuses to look away. Wanda...
The Lens Changes: Two Poets on Identity, Trauma, and Reinvention Through Art Two BC artists. Two very different entry points into the relationship between making things and surviving your own life. Sherry Duggal is a...
Loosening the Lock: A window into Borderline; A Door into Psychedelic Therapy Two conversations. Two very different entry points into the same territory: what happens when your nervous system, your brain chemistry, or...
Episode #22
They Sent Her Home Five Times: Aaisha Alvi on Postpartum Psychosis and the Lindsay Clancy Case This episode was recorded on August 30, 2026, the day the jury was still deliberating in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Clancy is...
Language Lives in My Wounds: Personality Disorders, Structural Violence, and the Politics of Vulnerability Ahana Mulgaonker is an independent scholar and writer based in Austin, Texas, who writes outside the margins of...
You Are Not Broken: Reclaiming Yourself After Trauma with Jenna Rae McWatters Trigger warning: this episode talks about experiences around human trafficking and child exploitation What happens when a child grows up...
Unmasked: Autism, Burnout, and the Daughter the System Failed Samia McCall came to advocacy the hard way. A former attorney and law professor, she spent thirty years cycling through mental health diagnoses, medications...
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Writing Through It: Indigenous Voices, Trauma, and the Art of Telling Without Breaking This episode brings together two writers whose work does something precise and difficult: it tells the truth about trauma without...
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Title: Pulling the Canoe to Shore: Healing, Mad Movements, and the Stories That Set Us Free This episode brings together two very different voices connected by a single thread: what it means to reclaim your own story...
Leaving the Faith, Finding Yourself: Life After Mormonism with Audra Phelps What happens when leaving a religion means risking the loss of your community, your identity, and even your closest relationships? In this...
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The Intersectionality of Mental Health, MAID, and Suicidality with Rebecca Deutsch Bernadine Fox sits down with Rebecca Deutsch, PhD candidate in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York University, for a...
People, Place and Purpose: Jim Gottstein on Dismantling a Mental Health System That Harms the People It Claims to Help Jim Gottstein is an Alaskan lawyer who, at 29, found himself jumping out of a second floor window in...
David Roche on Reclaiming Humanity Beyond Appearance What happens when the thing the world notices first about you becomes the very thing that teaches others how to see? In this deeply moving conversation, Bernadine Fox...
Trigger Warning: This program talks about sibling violence and suicide ideology. This week on ReThreading Madness, Bernadine Fox speaks with three individuals - Sandra Yuen, Penny Marie, and Venge - about survival...
A Conversation with Jonathan Rogers at 89 on Getting Old and Dying Host Bernadine Fox is joined by Jonathan Rogers — animator, artist, former supervising producer at Disney and Marvel, stand-up comedian, and the man she...
The Marks We Miss: Forensics, Trafficking, and the Path to True Trauma-Informed Justice Trigger Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions regarding human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault. It...
Episode #9
BiPolar Princess: Victoria Maxwell What happens when a spiritual awakening is mistaken for psychosis? And what if the difference between harm and healing is simply being listened to? In this powerful and often funny...
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