Interested in The Modern Trauma Toolkit?

Winner of the:

  • Gold Nautilus Book Award

  • Book Excellence Awards, Psychology

  • International Book Awards, Psychology

Visit www.moderntrauma.com to learn more.

Released in 2023 by Hachette Go (US) and John Murray (UK)

Christine is a writer & story seeker.

Photographed by Alina Gvritishvili

Publications:

The Modern Trauma Toolkit (2023) is a primer on trauma and toxic stress, presented in accessible language with a solution-focused approach.

Christine regularly writes on Substack. Follow her at:

  • Attuned: Christine’s musings to nurture your path to post-traumatic growth

  • TraumaDoc: Christine shares about trauma and post-traumatic growth

Articles:

  • Written and co-written multiple op-ed articles for national news agencies.

    • Read the most recent about long COVID in CBC news.

    • Read about climate change response as collective dissociation in CBC news.

Relevant Work and Training:

  • Co-lead of Narrative Working group in Besrour Centre of College of Family Physicians of Canada

    Wrote, hosted, and interviewed numerous international partners for the Emergence podcast through the journal CFP (Canadian Family Physician) during the COVID-19 pandemic to share lessons and stories around the world
    Created the College of Family Physicians of Canada’s (CFPC) Global Health Narratives.

  • Workshopped Harvesting and Hearing: Narratives for Authentic Collaboration and Learning To TUFH World Summit on Social Accountability
    Hammamet, Tunisia (April 2017)

  • Presented Besrour Center Narrative Working Group: Appreciative Inquiry and Story-telling for mutual understanding with Vincent Cubaka To Family Medicine Forum, College of Family Physicians of Canada
    Montreal, Canada (November 2017)

  • Ran a Storybooth project in Brazil.

  • At the Alex Centre Christine started their Digital Storytelling project by connecting Mike Lang: Stories of Resilience

  • Studied Aboriginal Narrative Practice through the Dulwich Centre, Australia

  • Group Therapy Training For Survivors of Trauma (VICCIR, 2019)

    • Narrative Exposure

    • Mind-body awareness

    • Grief and loss

  • Storytelling for Influence (IDEO U, 2019)

  • Narrative Palliative Care: A Narrative Medicine Workshop (Columbia University, 2018)

  • Studied podcasting through the Knight School of Journalism

Christine is also a published poet in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), and came 2nd in a poetry competition at WONCA Brazil.

Currently, Christine is writing a novel with themes of immigration, mental health, and living in the right way with ecosystems.