Re-Threading Madness evolved from a radio program entitled Both Sides Now which has aired on Vancouver Coop Radio, CFRO 100.5FM for over 6 years.
Each week, Bernadine Fox and Re-Threading Madness invites us - actually dares us - to change how we think about mental health aka madness.
Join us every Tuesday at 5 pm (PST)
Vancouver Coop Radio CFRO
Either online or at 100.5FM
Join us every Wednesday at 1 pm (MST)
CKXU
Either online or at 88.3FM
Each week, Bernadine Fox and Re-Threading Madness invites us - actually dares us - to change how we think about mental health aka madness.
Join us every Tuesday at 5 pm (PST)
Vancouver Coop Radio CFRO
Either online or at 100.5FM
Join us every Wednesday at 1 pm (MST)
CKXU
Either online or at 88.3FM
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Meet Bernadine Fox – Host of ReThreading Madness |
Bernadine Fox brings a rare and powerful combination of lived experience, long-term disability rights advocacy, and creative insight to her role as host and producer of ReThreading Madness, the award-winning radio show and podcast that dares to shift how we think about mental health.
A recipient of the 2022 Courage to Come Back Award, Bernadine is a white settler of Scottish, Irish, and French heritage with a familial connection to the Tsuut'ina nation. She has spent over 30 years advocating for those with lived experience of mental health challenges including survivors of trauma and therapy harm. She is an intersectional feminist, artist, and author of Coming to Voice: Surviving an Abusive Therapist—a memoir that confronts the devastating misuse of power in therapeutic relationships.
Bernadine is not a clinician, but she is a deeply informed mental health advocate with firsthand knowledge of trauma, CPTSD, and disability. Her background includes decades of work as a support worker for survivors of severe childhood trauma, a trauma consultant, and public speaker. She has led expressive arts groups in collaboration with Richmond Mental Health and Gallery Gachet, where she also served on the board and helped publish The Ear magazine. She has served on the board of such organizations as Kickstart (Disability Arts and Culture) which focused on breaking down barriers to creative access for people with disabilities.
What sets Bernadine apart as a radio host is her unwavering commitment to telling the truth—even when it's uncomfortable. She doesn't shy away from difficult conversations; she invites them. With compassion and clarity, she brings forward voices that are often silenced, challenges harmful narratives, and explores the messy realities of mental health, trauma, and recovery.
ReThreading Madness is more than a show. Under Bernadine's guidance, it's a platform for unfiltered, survivor-centered dialogue—one that refuses to pathologize trauma and instead builds community through shared truth.
Bernadine currently lives in the forest with two cats, raises her grandchild, and continues to create, speak, and advocate for a world where mental health care is ethical, accessible, and just.
ReThreading Madness is produced and aired on the ancestral and unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We extend our gratitude and appreciation to the Indigenous people who have been living and working on this land from time immemorial.
If you wish to contact us, please use the contact form on this website.
Bernadine's other social media and websites can be accessed through Linktr.ee
 ReThreading Madness and Bernadine Fox
win the
Breaking Barriers award from the National Community Radio Awards (2023)
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Host, Bernadine Fox, was awarded a 2022 Courage to Come Back Award from Coast Mental Health for not just surviving trauma but her work as a Mental Health Advocate over the last 30+ years. She brings all of that to ReThreading Madness each week.
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