Exploring Mental Health & Musical Insights

"My music helps to ground me and gives me a sense of purpose, a feeling of being grounded and flying – simultaneously." – Jordan Gow Ottawa singer/...

"We'll go to the doctor when we feel flu-ish or a nagging pain. So why don't we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss,...

OTTAWA CITIZEN : Three Ottawa-area musicians are among the first to receive a career boost from Birdsong Foundation, a charity that helps give voic...

Introduction by Gabrielle Grace Abbott Throughout my own struggles with substance use disorder and mental illness, Hungarian-Canadian physician Ga...

Negative thoughts about oneself are particularly damaging, and often lead to depression and isolation – both gateways to myriad dangerous mental he...

BIRDSONG – David Martin New Music Foundation announces Canadian singer/songwriter line-up for first BIRDSONG ALBUM, set to begin recording in Ottaw...

Today is the three-year marker of my life without my son David – my angel and my teacher. I feel like I’ve been living in a war-zone of debilitatin...

As summer wraps up here in the great white north, I can feel the approaching winter and my own mood changes as I watch the V formation of Canada ge...

FRONT PAGE NEWS: The Ottawa Citizen connected with BIRDSONG Foundation director Margaret Konopacki this week for a brave retelling of her (and her ...

In terms of science, the jury on mental health smartphone apps is still out. But while there is empirical evidence that apps can improve outcomes for patients, there is still a lot left to learn about them with little guidance for consumers.

“When people realized I was a musician my life completely changed. To write songs became my big thing. The more I wrote about things in my life, th...

As a community health nurse in downtown Ottawa, I frequently rely on the harm reduction model when working with people living with substance use di...