ReThreading Madness Radio
ReThreading Madness is a weekly radio program that brings together voices from across the world to rethink “mental health”.
Now in our seventh year on air, ReThreading Madness reclaims the conversation around mental health. We create space for survivors, advocates, artists, researchers, and thinkers whose work or personal experience helps reimagine healing, identity, and justice. Our conversations are trauma-informed, respectful, and real: stories that restore dignity, agency, and connection. Our conversations are raw, respectful, and real. Survivors, advocates, artists, and thinkers share what healing, identity, and justice look like on their own terms. Although, we rarely interview professionals we do make exceptions.
ReThreading Madness is broadcast on CFRO 100.5 FM (Vancouver) and CKXU 88.3 FM (Lethbridge) and then shared through the Mental Health Radio Network and podcast platforms garnering a global audience.
Many ask about our name: ReThreading Madness.
The name ReThreading Madness is a deliberate act of reclamation. Within the Mad Pride Movement, words once used to shame like crazy, nuts, or loony are reclaimed as expressions of strength and solidarity. Like the LGBTQA+ and BIPOC communities reclaiming language once used against them, this reclamation belongs within the community itself: context and lived experience matter. While some professionals may see these terms as derogatory or demeaning, in mad communities they represent defiance and resistance.
In the same way we deliberately use madness, we also choose not to use terms like mental illness or disorder. Those come from a medical model that defines people by what is “wrong” with them while they pathologize the impact of trauma. At ReThreading Madness, we focus instead on what people have lived, learned, and survived—rethreading the stories that restore dignity, agency, and connection, one conversation at a time.
And just in time, as 1 in 2 of us will deal with a mental health challenge in our lifetime.
If you have a story, project, or perspective that helps reimagine how we understand madness, trauma, or recovery, we’d love to hear from you. Your voice belongs in this conversation. Please don't hesitate to use our contact form to reach us.
To listen live...
ReThreading Madness is aired Tuesdays at 5 pm on Vancouver Coop Radio, CFRO 100.5FM.
You can listen on air or via online at www.coopradio.org.
And on Wednesdays at 1 pm on CKXU 88.3 FM in Lethbridge.
You can listen on air or via online at
https://ckxu.com
Podcasts
RTM is uploaded each week onto podcasts platforms. You can find them wherever you listen to your podcasts. It helps us out if you download, follow, review, or comment
(see Episode list)
You can listen on air or via online at www.coopradio.org.
And on Wednesdays at 1 pm on CKXU 88.3 FM in Lethbridge.
You can listen on air or via online at
https://ckxu.com
Podcasts
RTM is uploaded each week onto podcasts platforms. You can find them wherever you listen to your podcasts. It helps us out if you download, follow, review, or comment
(see Episode list)
If you would like to broadcast RTM on your campus/community/nonprofit radio station please contact us.
If you would like to receive episodes to broadcast on your campus/community/nonprofit radio station please contact us.
If you would like to receive episodes to broadcast on your campus/community/nonprofit radio station please contact us.
