On this week's Braving the Waves, Mikaela Brewer reads a poem that explores how to create a safe space in your mind—a place only for you.

It also discusses how difficult this can be among so many other thoughts, distractions, and constant content consumption. The poem in the episode is a sestina, which includes a repetitive echo by using the same six end words in different combinations and orders. Our thoughts also create echoes/repetition, so this episode can help us reclaim and create a healthy echo chamber in our minds. The poem allows us to unpack society’s sometimes invasive definition of safety and potentially brainstorm a new one.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

Where can we be safe when ceilings & walls won’t share? Those in our own brain—not the boundaries of shelter but the exponentially spreading Rubik's cube boxes— apartments plugged with everything but joy. Could we keep just one free? For love? Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca to get the support you need.

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This week's podcast discusses therapist confidentiality and the extreme cases in which a therapist is legally obligated to break confidentiality. We also discuss how therapists navigate suicidal ideation, and whether these thoughts are also reported.

Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve.

Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca to get the support you need.

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This week on Braving the Waves, Mikaela reads a poem about a long, brimming conversation between strangers on a long flight.

Near the end of the exchange, someone speaks the phrase, “stay with us,” which, out of context, can be interpreted many ways. In most, it’s an offer of comfort and hospitality, such as, “stay with us when/if you visit, stay at our hotel, or stay the night when there’s is a storm that makes driving dangerous. But in this episode, the poem’s narrator unwinds the words a bit further. As someone struggling with suicidal thoughts, they wonder if the extension of “stay with us” is an offering of safety—what’s requested is not only to stay, but to stay with us.

Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written & visually formatted versions can now be found & read at mikbrew.substack.com!):

and so I gathered, if anything, that they’d heard, seen, felt, or breathed,

something in my voice or speech or careful anecdotes breaking, which made them repeat:

stay with us

(please don’t leave this world yet)

Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

Disclaimer: This Podcast and all of our mental health learning and educational content is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapy. Noah and Simon do not take this therapist-client role in any way for Resolvve.

Please seek professional help if needed. Go to www.resolvve.ca to get the support you need.

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