Freedom To Know Wellness

In this episode, legendary Canadian drug policy reform advocate Alison Myrden shares why patient advocacy and scientific research are vital for chronic pain care using medical cannabis and psilocybin.

Living with multiple sclerosis and severe chronic pain from Trigeminal Neuralgia (often dubbed the "suicide disease"), Alison became one of the first people in Canada to receive a federal exemption to legally use medical cannabis.

In th...

In this series finale of "Disabilities & Healing Stories," Freedom To Know Wellness sits down with feminist and peace activist Amal Elsana Alh'jooj at the 2025 FOLD Festival ⁨ @TheFOLDCanada 

In the episode “Defying Silence,” Amal reflects on her memoir, Hope Is a Woman’s Name, and shares how storytelling becomes a powerful tool for personal, familial, and collective healing—especially in the c...

In Part 3 of Disabilities & Healing Stories, Freedom To Know Wellness, along with guest freelance entertainment journalist ⁠Lara Tai⁠, speaks with award-winning Anishinaabe journalist and author Tanya Talaga at the 2025⁠ The FOLD Festival ⁠. Tanya discusses her book The Knowing and explores how her storytelling fosters Indigenous generational healing. 

She reflects on her acclaimed work, including Seven Fallen Feathersa...

Part 2 of our FTKWellness at The Festival of Literary Diversity, Disabilities and Healing Stories series features an intimate conversation with Canadian sports journalist and memoirist Morgan Campbell at the 2025 Festival of Literary Diversity (The FOLD). ⁠⁠ @TheFOLDCanada ⁠⁠

Morgan reflects on his memoir "My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us" and explores how telling the truth about fami...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10 of Freedom To Know Wellness! In today's episode of our ongoing Healing Stories Series—captured in collaboration with the 2026 Festival of Literary Diversity  @TheFOLDCanada , we sit down with author, psychotherapist, and activist Farzana Doctor to explore the complexities of trauma response in caregivers and 'overgivers,' and dive into the intersection of disability and wellness, heal...

In the first interview from "Disabilities & Healing Stories", Freedom To Know Wellness (@FTKWellness) sits down with celebrated Canadian author and disability activist Amanda Leduc at the 2025 The FOLD (Festival of Literary Diversity) (@TheFOLDCanada).♿️ Accessibility Note: Closed Captions (CC) enabled.

Episode TranscriptionIn Part 1, Amanda reflects on the challenges of navigating creative work while living with cerebral palsy....

FTKWellness celebrated Black Mental Health Week (March 2 - 9, 2026) with author and sports journalist Morgan Campbell. In this clip, Morgan discusses his memoir, "My Fighting Family," and how uncovering uncomfortable truths can lead to profound family healing.

🎙️Watch the Full Episode here on Spotify or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2hEmsXAc4Rk🎧 Listen to the full episode on the "Disabilities and Healing Stories" playlist here: htt...

Freedom To Know Wellness is honoured to partner with The FOLD  @TheFOLDCanada  (Festival of Literary Diversity) to present this special 4-part series, Disabilities & Healing Stories.In May 2025, FTKWellness had the privilege of attending the FOLD at the Rose Theatre in Brampton, Ontario. As a disability social enterprise, FTKWellness explores how literature serves as a powerful modality for physical, mental, and emoti...

Can "Love and Kindness" unlock the hidden door to healing chronic pain?In this episode, FTKWellness speaks with Rachel Donen  @racheldonen  about how the meditation practice of "Loving Kindness" can support healing from chronic pain. Drawing from teachings by Buddhist monk and author Thich Nhat Hanh, as well as the Tibetan practice of Tonglen meditation, Rachel shares insights on how compassion-based meditation can transf...

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FTKWellness launches the first episode of its Healers Series with wellness and herbalist practitioner, yoga and Pilates instructor Miró Kali Shakti. In this episode, we explore Miró’s personal journey to wellness after living with Fibromyalgia and PTSD for several years — and how reconnecting with her Brazil...

Join the conversation with Freedom To Know Wellness in Season 2, Episode 1—an episode honouring Black Maternal Health Week, April 11–17. Hear one Black woman's powerful journey navigating chronic pain and maternal care within the Canadian healthcare system. She represents many Black women and Women of Colour who face a system often marked by neglect and medical gaslighting. A system built on biased standards—roote...

This title may seem sombre— “Alive Traumatic Births…” Urgh, depressing! But don't fear. My guest, Allison Wylie, will inform and expand your understanding of their birth trauma, infertility and IVF journey while giving you some humour within their traumatic and extensive experience of obtaining their two children. Allison and her partner's experience with losses during their IVF led to the inspiration and...

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Aisha shares her journey managing Pelvic Reproductive pain, enduring medical gaslighting and her struggle in search of a gynecologist and pelvic floor therapist to treat her. Aisha's chronic pain began as a teenager-- impacting her quality of life. Despite living with chronic- even debilitating pain, she went on to be a professional dancer and a Reiki Master using this technique to help manage her pai...

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This is the final episode from our highlight series Seniors Voices, 2024 year. Join FTKWellness as we discuss the benefits of Medical Cannabis for PTSD and seniors' health with the owner of Bayview Concierge- an online health, home, legal and finances resource for seniors, and the podcast, Let’s Talk Cannabis, Sherry Bennet. Sherry shares her journey to using cannabis to manage her PTSD and phy...

Welcome to Freedom To Know Wellness’s, Seniors Voices, episode 3 with guest Linda. We continue this series with Linda, a retired Production Manager from the Canadian theatre company Famous People Players #disabilityinarts, as she shares about her disability due to a car accident that caused a spinal injury and her life now as a disabled senior using an accessible wheelchair managing post-injury cognitive impairment. In late 2...

Welcome to Freedom To Know Wellness’s “Seniors Voices” episode 2 with guest, Robert. In episode 2, Robert shares his life as a senior using accessibility devices due to conditions like COPD and diabetes- to name a few, and his activism to make the Canadian government aware of the needs of seniors and people with disability. Seniors Voices is an FTKWellness highlight series featuring seniors with different disabili...

Freedom To Know Wellness's “Seniors Voices” are stories, shared without being interviewed- by individuals managing various disabilities and medical conditions, telling the difficulties they faced transitioning from government disability to Canadian pension, the frustration and financial hardship they encounter now without disability support- yet the various great support they discovered during their process to provide s...

The Freedom To Know Wellness podcast interviewed Meghan French @thefaithfulfibromyalgiawarrior  last year, discussing her healing journey from debilitating Fibromyalgia pain using the controversial Carnivore Diet. It's been 6 months since that interview to this recording, and to see her improvement and mobility are beyond remarkable. Watch this episode to catch all the details on how Meghan achieved her newfound freedom from c...

Risa Corbett battled lung failure caused by a life-threatening rare ARDS Lung condition due to Streptococcus pneumonia. An experience that caused a Near Death Experience (NDE) and created debilitating Fibromyalgia. Risa shares how she advocated, fought for and spearheaded an unheard-of surgery that healed her conditions, giving her a new view and lease on life.

Risa is eager to help others going through similar struggles. Connect w...