UPCOMING EVENTS AND PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Victoria: May 30, 730pm
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The Invitation of Pain: Live in Person with Ruthie Lindsey
Do you suffer from chronic pain but want to learn how to love your body and experience your pain differently? Do you want to undo the aloneness and share connection with others who know what it’s like?
When we experience pain, we are instructed to medicalize our pain to make it go away. We learn to see our bodies as the enemy and forget the identity outside of the pain. But we can learn to experience and understand pain differently, even coming to see pain as the route back home to who we really are. In this way, the pain becomes the invitation back to our bodily selves – reminding us how to love ourselves more fully, teaching us that we can heal regardless of if the pain goes away or not.
In this in-person event, join Ruthie Lindsey and Hillary McBride in a conversation about pain and a new way of thinking about how we relate to it and ourselves. Ruthie and Hillary will share their stories of journeying through chronic pain and recovery, the lessons they learned along the way, current research findings about healing from pain, and engage attendees in practices to begin to experience ourselves and our pain differently. There is nothing quite like being in person to share, connect, feel less alone, and move our bodies.
What others have said
“Being part of Hillary and Ruthie’s Invitation of Pain group last year kept me sane during the height of un-wellness when rest felt impossible and my chronic pain was constant. Highly recommend their work on embodiment and repairing our relationships with our bodies.”
“This was a real invitation to be more embodied in my day to day life. It really clicked and helped me in ways that felt so meaningful”
“I specifically would recommend it to anyone experiencing chronic pain and living life like this on a daily basis. Dr Hillary and Ruthie bring eye-opening perspectices on how to reframe pain while incorperating their own personal tactics or tool boxes o how to ease some of that disomfort”
Invitation of Pain In-Person Event Details:
Explore a new perspective on pain with Ruthie Lindsey and Hillary McBride. This event offers a chance to rethink how you relate to pain and discover new pathways to wellness. Connecting with ourselves through our bodies is valuable, and experiencing this together in person can enhance that connection to another level. Togther we will share ideas and experiences, and our favorite practices for navigating a life with pain. Come anticipating a space of honesty, play, laughter, movement, bodily agency, creative expression, and compassionate witnessing of self and others. We hope you’ll join us for this meaningful experience and build something beautiful in the midst of what hurts.
Date: May 24, 2025
Time: 6-9pm PST
Cost per person: $111
**No refunds within 3 days prior to event close **This will not be recorded ** Space is wheelchair accessible.
We recommend bringing a notebook and something to write with so you may take notes if you would like. Wear comfortable clothes that you can move in. Light snacks and drinks will be provided. Signed copies of each of Hillary’s books will also be available for purchase and signing.
LINK TO TICKETS HERE
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Katalyst Ketamine Assisted Therapy Group: The Perimenopause Edition
April 8 – June 24 online,
In person dates in Abbotsford BC:
May 3, 10, 24
Many women experience perimenopause alone: the lack of information within mainstream medicine and culture has left women feeling ashamed, isolated, confused, and afraid about what it means to experience a changing body again at this stage of life. However, findings from recent research have indicated that group support during the transition, or in anticipation or following the transition supports women to not only experience a reduction in symptoms, simply having other women to journey alongside them helps reduce the severity of symptoms and harness the power of this life-stage change to experience more freedom, confidence, agency, and security in who they are. This 12 week group will meet online on zoom each week on Tuesday nights, and on three occasions will meet in person in Abbotsford, BC to experience group Ketamine assisted therapy. The online content weekly will cover skills for emotional regulation and life-stage transitions, meaningful information about the biological needs and complexities of this time, and will include innovative research meant to empower and illuminate the invitations of the menopausal transition. The medically supported ketamine assisted therapy sessions will create opportunities for the members to join together in facing the challenges and struggles of their internal worlds while creating connection to their secure and confident self. The group will be limited to 8 women who self identify as navigating perimenopause or are newly menopausal (12 months without menstruation) and will be run by Dr Hillary McBride (Registered Psychologist) and Lianne Bjornerud (Nurse Practitioner). Group costs cover weekly online groups, medical intake and psychological intake, and 3 ketamine sits. Travel to/from in person groups will be the responsibility of each group member.
Link to apply here
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Katalyst Ketamine Assisted Therapy Training: Psychedelic skills training for licences clinicians
May 7-9 Abbotsford BC
For information and to register contact katalystmentalhealth@gmail.com
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Shalem Network Ministry Mental Health Summit
May 22, 2025- Toronto ON
Details to come.
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I love you, I hate you, are you my mom?
A deep dive into transference and countertransference, and how to work with it.
Dr Hillary McBride and Dr Craig Heacock.
Clinical training for therapist (and related professions)
Victoria, BC
May 28-30, 2025
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Healing After Spiritual Trauma: A Conversation on Reconnection and Renewal
Matsqui Hall, Abbotsford, BC
June 26, 2025, 7-9pm
Join psychologist Dr. Hillary McBride and special guest Joshua Harris for an evening of honest dialogue about spiritual trauma, healing, and rebuilding community in the aftermath of religious harm. Drawing from their unique perspectives and personal journeys, Hillary and Joshua will explore the complex ways religious institutions can wound us, and the paths toward authentic healing.
This warm, collaborative conversation aims to create a space where attendees can reflect on their own experiences and discover tools for reconnection—with themselves, with others, and with spirituality on their own terms.
Hillary McBride will share insights from her newly released book “Holy Hurt,” which examines how spiritual trauma affects us and offers compassionate approaches to healing. Joshua Harris brings his perspective as someone who has navigated his own public journey of faith deconstruction since writing “I Kissed Dating Goodbye.”
All proceeds will be donated to Fresh Bread, a charity dedicated to breaking down barriers in access to qualified caring therapists
LINK FOR TICKETS HERE