Category: Advocacy & Support

Most people think trauma has one shape. A loud bang, a flashback, a jump at a car backfiring. That’s the version we’ve all seen in movies, and it’s real — but it’s not the only shape, and it’s not the one I want to talk about today. There’s another kind. Quieter. It doesn’t announce itself…

A real, documented history behind why Airborne veterans are among the most underserved — and what shame and moral injury actually have to do with it.

ADHD isn’t a focus problem — it’s a regulation problem touching six systems at once. Here’s what Dr. Sasha Hamdani actually says it is, why it gets missed for decades, and what to do about it.

Nobody fails a claim because they didn’t care enough. They fail it because nobody was watching the file the way it needed to be watched. Here’s a number worth sitting with: roughly 1 in 5 VAC disability applications get denied outright. Not because the injury isn’t real. Not because the person doesn’t qualify. Almost always,…

It’s rarely that the claim isn’t real. It’s that the file never told VAC what it needed to know.

Canadian veterans given mefloquine in Somalia are still fighting the government — in court. Here’s what happened, where the lawsuit stands in 2026, and what veterans need to know.

There’s a term making the rounds right now — the M-Type Brain. It describes people who are multi-passionate, novelty-driven, and perpetually chasing the next interesting thing. It’s trending on social media, showing up in career coaching conversations, and resonating with a lot of people who’ve spent years feeling like they were built wrong for the…

You’ve probably heard of the Type A personality. Driven. Deadline-obsessed. First one in, last one out. Always with a to-do list, always slightly annoyed that the rest of the world isn’t moving faster. Maybe that sounds like you. Or maybe it only sounds like part of you — the part that gets things done —…

A step-by-step guide to applying for the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) — from financial eligibility and the Disability Determination Package, to what to do if you’re denied. Includes links to official government resources.

For most of your life, you probably thought you were lazy. Or careless. Or “just not trying hard enough.” You lost things constantly. Forgot appointments. Started projects with enormous enthusiasm and abandoned them three days later. You worked twice as hard as everyone around you to produce the same result — and then wondered why…