Colleen WeddColleen Wedd is a practising, Registered Psychiatric Nurse. She has been working in the field of mental health for close to twenty-five years. Through the Early Psychosis Intervention Program, Colleen has worked with young adults who have been newly iagnosed with a psychotic illness. Working on downtown Vancouver's East Side, she has witnessed the devastation of chronic mental illness and substance misuse. Throughout her career, Colleen has learned mental illness shows no bias. It crosses all socioeconomic borders and affects people of all colors, cultures, classes, and races. Colleen's eighty-seven-year-old mother recently passed from complications related to vascular dementia.

Colleen has three adult children and six grandchildren. She lives in Mission British Columbia with her horse Rebel, a gelded mustang from the Penticton Indigenous Peoples feral herd. Read More Read Less