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Women on the Brink
Welcome to Women on the Brink - Are you a woman who feels stressed out and overwhelmed in your everyday life? This website and podcast is designed to support and encourage women dealing with different types of stress and adversity. We're here to provide tools that can be used to raise self-awareness and build resilience, so you can step away from the edge of the cliff that you may be teetering on. Join your host, healthcare practitioner and stress & wellness coach, Chris Jeffrey, and move your life from diving to thriving, from chaos to calm.....
Episodes
67 episodes
Red Lights, Detours & Trusting the Ride
Trusting the universe isn’t all “love and light”—sometimes it looks like dashboard warning lights, bad timing, and muttering are you kidding me? In this episode, I talk about real trust, redirections, and what happens when you st...
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Season 2
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Episode 51
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The End of the Nine Year Cycle - Yippee!
Chris wraps up a nine-year cycle that felt like a spiritual washing machine—complete with fires, premonitions, nervous-system meltdowns, and more plot twists than a Netflix drama. But the good news? The next cycle is finally about selecti...
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Season 2
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Episode 50
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13:02
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I changed from Subconsciously Attracting Emotionally Unavailable Men
I spent years drawn to emotionally unavailable men probably because chaos felt familiar and I hadn’t done my own inner work. Then midlife hit—menopause, spiritual openings, and reconnecting to my Indigenous identity—and my body, intuition, and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 50
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Indigenous Fashion Week (Mother and Daughter Time)
This week I share my experience going to Indigenous Fashion week with my daughter, Nicole - not once but twice. I loved the diverse representation, loved the unique styles and above all, I made me so happy to see my daughter witnessing I...
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Season 2
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Episode 48
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7:58
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Is Online Dating Working? A Very Frank (and humorous) Conversation with Kim Protopappas
People tell me you aren't really a part of the dating scene unless you're online. But has Online Dating lost its charm? This week we talk to one woman who has been dating online on and off for about 15 years. Kim Protopappas ...
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Season 2
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Episode 47
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45:40
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Kindness, Community, and Why Volunteering Is Basically a Selfish Act (In the Best Possible Way)
Volunteering is a selfish act. In the best, most heart-expanding way possible.Because in my experience — as someone who volunteered before I had kids, and again after raising kids — I can say this with complete honesty: I have...
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Season 2
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Episode 46
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Do We Need to Get Back to Traditional Roles to Make it Work?
Life seemed so clear back in the 1800's for men and women. The men protected and provided. The women nurtured and connected. Roles were defined, even if they weren’t exactly fair. So today, we’re asking: Do we actually need to go back...
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The Witch Awakens: Intuition, Power and the Return of the Feminine
It’s October — the season of thinning veils, when the air itself feels electric. The days shorten, the nights deepen, and if you’re paying attention, there’s a certain shimmer in the ordinary. It’s also the time when witches show up everywhere ...
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The Universe Pinged Me Hard (Until I Finally Listened)
I’ve come to believe in what I call destiny points — those moments written in our soul’s record, the Akashic Records, where we’re meant to arrive no matter how many detours we take. Sometimes we’re on Path A — the one aligned with our ...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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18:47
The Energy of Fall from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective
Today, we’re leaning into the energy of fall through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine —and exploring how this season touches our emotions, our bodies, and our hearts. We’ll also meet three gentle plant allies—rose, chamomile, and lavend...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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From Substance Use and Being Unhoused to Making a Difference - A REAL Discussion with Rebecca Goulet
Rebecca Goulet, someone who knows this story from the inside out of being unhoused and addicted. Her life has included experiences many of us can barely imagine: addiction to alcohol and street drugs, living in shelters and on the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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You Know Someone Affected — Even If You Don’t Know It - Unveiling the Stigma of Substance Use with Leslie McBain
Substance use (in this episode we are referencing drugs) isn’t some distant issue — it’s often our neighbour, our family member, or our friend. The very first step in helping someone find support is breaking down the walls of stigma. When we re...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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42:55
The Shame I've Been Carrying Around
When I speak about shame today, I hold both my personal journey, and the collective journeys of those who have been told for generations that they don’t measure up or don’t belong. And I’m doing this work of healing my own shame not only for my...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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What if Getting Older Meant Getting Bigger?
Arlene Dickson, the business entrepreneur from Dragon's Den, posted about how, as we get older, we start living smaller lives without even noticing. The same coffee order. The same safe conversations. The same routines. When did predictab...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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Women on the Brink's First Anniversary! (And the Inspiration Behind it)
Thank you for supporting Women on the Brink and celebrating our 1st Anniversary!I hope these episodes provided a chance for you to pause, take a breath, and remember that we’re not alone when we find ourselves standing at the edge, stari...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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What The F@#K is The Meaning of Life
Have you ever wondered why we are here? Why you, in this body, at this exact time, are moving through the life you’ve been given? It’s one of the oldest questions — and one that can feel overwhelming when life throws pain or uncertainty our way...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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Does Body Fat Carry Emotions? My Covid Experience
Today we’re diving into something deeply personal, and honestly, pretty misunderstood: body fat. So many of us have internalized the belief that fat is something evil or shameful — something we need to get rid of or be at war with....
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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13:58
Old Soul, New Soul: Navigating This Lifetime from Where You Came From
Maybe you've been called an old soul your whole life. Or maybe you’ve met people who seem so light and fresh and unburdened that you wonder if they’re just getting started. Either way, it raises the question: What are we really carrying wit...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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The Weight of “What If”: Transforming the Energy of Regret
Today we’re talking about one of those emotions that can feel heavy enough to anchor you to the past: regret. That endless loop of ‘What if I had chosen differently? What if I hadn’t said that? What if I’d been braver? We d...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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The Catch That Matters
Welcome back to Women on the Brink. Today we’re diving into one of my favorite little parables — but we’re giving it a woman’s twist. It’s about work, ambition, and the invisible pressure to always be doing more… and what happens when you stop ...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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The One Trauma Response No One Talks About: Fawning
We’ve all heard about the classic stress responses: fight, flight, or freeze. These are the instinctual ways our nervous system reacts to a perceived threat — either by confronting it, running from it, or shutting down entirely. But there’s a f...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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Embracing the Yang Energy of Summer
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, summer is ruled by the heart, by fire, and by yang — that dynamic, outward, expressive force. It’s the time of year when nature is fully alive, blooming, buzzing, showing off in all her glor...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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The Sparkle that Slipped Away
Have you ever gone through a time where you’re just not turned on by life?Lulls are necessary pauses after a big growth spurt or a lot of output, so we're talking about why we have them and the difference between being stuck and being in...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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14:27
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No Limitations: A Conversation with Louise Burley on Redefining Disability and Embracing Resilience
Have you ever met a person who makes you pause and say to yourself -" Wow - this person is truly amazing"? Today’s guest is living proof that the impossible is negotiable. Louise Burley is a solution-based coach, adult education trainer, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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