Music, mental health
/At the Toronto Standard, Anupa Mistry writes about the music therapy program at Across Boundaries, a mental health centre for people of colour.
At the Toronto Standard, Anupa Mistry writes about the music therapy program at Across Boundaries, a mental health centre for people of colour.
I’ve seen my mother on the brink of death. It was my first and only visit to El Salvador. I was nine years old.
We’d gone out to dinner at a restaurant that specialized in fruits from the sea. My mother ate a stew of mariscos. Seafood medley in a bowl, essentially. She’d been told she was allergic to shellfish in the past, but one little rash and slightly laboured breathing wasn’t enough to stop her. Shrimp is just that good.
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