Healing with Endo 902

04/14/2026

We are so happy to have Shelley joining us this weekend to lead a Soul Collage workshop. Here’s a little bit more about her practice of Art Therapy! 🥰❤️🎨

04/13/2026

The Antigonish Women's Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association is holding their Endometriosis Support Group next Wednesday. See this post for more details! 😊💛

04/13/2026

There’s still spots open for the workshop this Sunday! It’s a free workshop sponsored by the Antigonish Women's Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association, however registration is required. Register using the link on the poster or send the Healing with Endo 902 page a message. Please share to help spread the word. ❤️

We’re celebrating our one year anniversary of the Guysborough & Area Endometriosis Support Group! 💛

What started in April last year has grown into a monthly space for support, connection, shared experience, and blossoming friendships. 🌻

In celebration, we’re hosting a Soul Collage Workshop with Art Therapist Shelley Long. ✂️🖼️

If you’ve been part of the group, thinking about joining in, or just need a space to breathe and create, you’re welcome here. We are open to anyone who has endometriosis, suspects they have endometriosis, and those who don’t have it but who would like to learn more.

🗓 Saturday, April 18, 2026
🕐 1 PM – 3 PM
📍 Chedabucto Lifestyle Complex, Guysborough

👉 It’s a free event, but spots are limited so be sure to register:
beacons.ai/healingwithendo902

This event is made possible in partnership with and sponsored by the Antigonish Women's Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association. ❤️

04/12/2026

04/11/2026

Today marks the one year anniversary of the Guysborough & Area Endometriosis Support Group! 🥰

Over the past year our little group has been slowly growing, and I wasn’t sure what to expect at first, but I’m so glad I started it. It’s been a pleasure getting to know these brave and resilient young ladies, as it’s not easy to come to a group like this - it takes real courage to step outside your comfort zone and open up to strangers. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has trusted me to create a safe space to share and connect around endo.

It’s been beautiful watching friendships blossom, and also heartbreaking to hear what so many continue to go through navigating a healthcare system that lacks knowledge and training around their bodies.

This group was never about fixing anything, but about helping those stuck in limbo feel less alone by connecting them with others who understand. If it gives someone something to look forward to, or helps keep their head above water while they wait for care, then at least that is one small part I can play in helping to reduce feelings of isolation that come with disease.

Thank you to everyone who has attended so far, and to the Antigonish Women's Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association (especially Allison), Cary and the Cast Away Cafe , ArtWorks East, and Muddy Puddle Goat Farm for supporting this group along the way.

And of course, thank you to my sister Patty Mac for all her help, especially with the collaborative painting.

If you’ve been thinking about joining but feel hesitant, this is your encouragement. You don’t have to feel alone in your fight. 🫂

Join us April 18th from 1–3pm for a Soul Collage Workshop with Shelley Long to celebrate our one year anniversary. It’s free, but registration is required as spots are limited. 💜
Register here:
https://form.jotform.com/260906769656069

Here’s to another year! 🎗️🙌❤️

04/10/2026

A big thanks to Duane Jones with Art Pays Me who had me on his podcast this past year to talk about the organization I work with, ArtWorks East, my own creative ventures, and my endometriosis advocacy. Definitely check out his podcast if you haven’t already. ❤️❤️❤️

04/10/2026

Happening next Saturday at the CLC in Guysborough! This support group and workshop is open to those with endometriosis, those who suspect they may have endo, and those who don’t have endo but would like learn more on how to support those who do. 💛

We’re celebrating our one year anniversary of the Guysborough & Area Endometriosis Support Group! 💛

What started in April last year has grown into a monthly space for support, connection, shared experience, and blossoming friendships. 🌻

In celebration, we’re hosting a Soul Collage Workshop with Art Therapist Shelley Long. ✂️🖼️

If you’ve been part of the group, thinking about joining in, or just need a space to breathe and create, you’re welcome here. We are open to anyone who has endometriosis, suspects they have endometriosis, and those who don’t have it but who would like to learn more.

🗓 Saturday, April 18, 2026
🕐 1 PM – 3 PM
📍 Chedabucto Lifestyle Complex, Guysborough

👉 It’s a free event, but spots are limited so be sure to register:
beacons.ai/healingwithendo902

This event is made possible in partnership with and sponsored by the Antigonish Women's Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association. ❤️

04/09/2026

Thanks to the generous donations made to my fundraising effort during Endometriosis Awareness Month, I was able to raise $300 for the IWK Foundation to help with the IWK Endometriosis & Chronic Pelvic Pain Program.

Although March is over, we can keep the awareness and action going for better endometriosis care, training and education. Consider supporting the IWK Foundation to help those with endometriosis in Nova Scotia.

To find out more on how to support the IWK Foundation, visit: iwkfoundation.org ❤️

04/04/2026

We’re celebrating our one year anniversary of the Guysborough & Area Endometriosis Support Group! 💛

What started in April last year has grown into a monthly space for support, connection, shared experience, and blossoming friendships. 🌻

In celebration, we’re hosting a Soul Collage Workshop with Art Therapist Shelley Long. ✂️🖼️

If you’ve been part of the group, thinking about joining in, or just need a space to breathe and create, you’re welcome here. We are open to anyone who has endometriosis, suspects they have endometriosis, and those who don’t have it but who would like to learn more.

🗓 Saturday, April 18, 2026
🕐 1 PM – 3 PM
📍 Chedabucto Lifestyle Complex, Guysborough

👉 It’s a free event, but spots are limited so be sure to register:
beacons.ai/healingwithendo902

This event is made possible in partnership with and sponsored by the Antigonish Women's Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association. ❤️

04/01/2026

I highly recommend Dr. Emily LeBlanc ND - Bluebell Natural Medicine! She is someone I’ve been working with throughout my journey the past couple of years. She is very knowledgeable and helps create a plan tailored to your specific needs which is awesome. 💛

We have some BIG news to share 🩷

On April 1st last year, I took the leap and opened my very own clinic in Antigonish. Bluebell Natural Medicine had been a dream of mine for years, and I was so excited to finally create the space I had always envisioned ✨️

This past year has been filled with so much growth, and building this practice has brought me such a deep sense of joy and purpose ☺️

And now… I’m so excited to share what’s next 🌿

Bluebell Natural Medicine is expanding, and I’ll be opening a second location in Pictou County! 🌸

This step feels incredibly meaningful. It allows me to support more individuals across Pictou County and surrounding communities with personalized, evidence-informed care.

My practice will remain focused on women’s health and fertility, while continuing to welcome those seeking general naturopathic care.

You can find me at
🌊 27 Water St, Suite 203, Pictou
starting May 1st — in the most beautiful space overlooking the harbour
☀️ Booking is now open for May (select Pictou location):
bluebellnaturalmedicine.janeapp.com

I can’t wait to welcome you into this new space 🫶
— Dr. Emily

03/31/2026

To say I’m angry is an understatement. I’m absolutely livid with the lack of concern from our current government around women’s healthcare and conditions like endometriosis. An act was passed in 2023 in Nova Scotia that acknowledges March as Endometriosis Awareness Month but the current government has yet to officially recognize it.

They think everything is okay and that all of us women who are complaining are merely exceptions. If anything, the Minister of Health made statements that said primary care physicians and gynaecologists across the province are equipped to help endometriosis patients. However, that’s not the reality.

When will this current government stop living in a land of make believe and actually listen to Nova Scotians? When will they start actually listening to women?

It’s bad enough we get gaslit by the healthcare system, but then when you’re also getting gaslit and dismissed by those in government who have the power to implement policies that can lead to effective change - they sit on the god damn hands and treat us like we’re just overreacting.

Enough is enough! Write your local MLAs, MPs, the Minister of Health, and the Premier (links to NS representatives is in my link in bio) and let them know your own experiences here in the Nova Scotia and even the Canadian healthcare system as someone suffering with endometriosis. Let them know how it’s impacted you physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, financially and the other various ways it’s affected you. And feel free to send any copies of any letters to myself to compile into one big document that I can use as proof that patients have reached out, the responses they’ve received, and so myself and other advocates I work with can speak on your behalf. See my link in bio or send me a DM! 💛