Being a Beginner

One episode about religion wasn’t enough, so Arielle and Emma sat down to talk about all things Jesus. They attempt to transmit their thoughts on the Universe to your brain through your ears. Best of luck!

The Q&A episode you've been waiting for. Arielle and Emma answer your burning questions. From their favourite TV shows to their saddest realities, they get in-to-it.

How honest is too honest? A very real conversation with fellow mom and therapist-in-training Meg Makins about Arielle and Emma's deepest fears and hardest parenting moments while living with disabilities. Three moms talk about two moms taking their meds and loving their kids. Trigger warning: this episode discusses miscarriage, water safety with kids, medication and self harm.

Follow Arielle on a drug-induced medical odyssey to Toronto as doctors poke and prod her with less-than-ideal results. Lucky for us, her brilliant Neurologist helps to explain what's going on.

What's it like talking about the worst thing that's happening to them? Arielle and Emma share how they've really been doing since starting the podcast. Is this when they quit? Why are they even doing this to themselves?

In Part 2, Arielle and Emma dive deeper into the daily realities of living with disabilities, this time through the lens of their husbands, Jesse and Dave. What do they actually do for them day to day? When life gave them lemonade, did they make lemons? Join them as they share lists, stories and acknowledge unspoken moments that make their marriages the real damn deal.

Did they get more than they signed up for? What if there's more sickness than health? Arielle and Emma ask their husbands the hard questions. From diagnosis to future anxieties, Part 1 of this series finds out what it's like to go down with the ship, and answers the question: does the heart really go on?

Can you really be healed of your incurable disease? Does prayer work? What about witchcraft? Emma and Arielle follow a higher power to a local Dollarama and find out.

We’re new at this. We’ve never been labeled as disabled until our diagnoses 5 years ago, so I guess you could say we’re beginners on this journey. Beginners at being disabled AND at podcasting. Wish us luck!