Michelle Hébert 🇨🇦
@hfxwordy.bsky.social
Writer | trauma-informed writing coach | MFA, MSW, PTSD | cat enthusiast | Author of "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" (Vagrant 2024) - A Toronto Star summer 'must read'! Halifax/Mi'kmaqi michellehebertwrites.com
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Editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social
Freddie Purrcury, destroyer of pens.
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Freddie Purrcury, destroyer of pens.
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Congratulations to Sheree Fitch, winner of the $40,000 #MattCohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. #WTAwards #canlit Thank you to Lorraine Greey for her continuous support of this prize.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Congratulations to Sheree Fitch, winner of the $40,000 #MattCohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. #WTAwards #canlit Thank you to Lorraine Greey for her continuous support of this prize.
Baseball is pain.
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Baseball is pain.
#HaliSky - join me tonight, 7pm, at the Halifax Central Library. Gillian Turnbull, head of the King's MFA program, and I will be discussing my novel, "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic". Very seasonally appropriate book - ghosts! attics! tarot! cozy bookstores!
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#HaliSky - join me tonight, 7pm, at the Halifax Central Library. Gillian Turnbull, head of the King's MFA program, and I will be discussing my novel, "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic". Very seasonally appropriate book - ghosts! attics! tarot! cozy bookstores!
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I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’ve noticed something since I’ve stopped buying US made food products, not that I bought a lot before all this tariff shit, anyway, I am having less digestive issues and eating more fresh products made locally here in NS. I feel better, anyone else? #Canada
October 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’ve noticed something since I’ve stopped buying US made food products, not that I bought a lot before all this tariff shit, anyway, I am having less digestive issues and eating more fresh products made locally here in NS. I feel better, anyone else? #Canada
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Come work with us! To apply please send a cover letter and resume to recruitment@adsumforwomen.org
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October 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Come work with us! To apply please send a cover letter and resume to recruitment@adsumforwomen.org
Full job descriptions here: adsumforwomen.org/employment-o...
Full job descriptions here: adsumforwomen.org/employment-o...
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The Canadian Mental Health Association reported in 2024 that the mental health of Canadians is three times worse than before COVID-19, and that no jurisdiction is spending enough on mental health.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
October 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Canadian Mental Health Association reported in 2024 that the mental health of Canadians is three times worse than before COVID-19, and that no jurisdiction is spending enough on mental health.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
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On this day in 1869, the Saxby Gale hit New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
A category 2 hurricane with winds of 165 km/h, it produced a two-metre storm surge that tossed ships in harbours. It killed at least 37 people and destroyed parts of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway.
A category 2 hurricane with winds of 165 km/h, it produced a two-metre storm surge that tossed ships in harbours. It killed at least 37 people and destroyed parts of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway.
October 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
On this day in 1869, the Saxby Gale hit New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
A category 2 hurricane with winds of 165 km/h, it produced a two-metre storm surge that tossed ships in harbours. It killed at least 37 people and destroyed parts of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway.
A category 2 hurricane with winds of 165 km/h, it produced a two-metre storm surge that tossed ships in harbours. It killed at least 37 people and destroyed parts of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway.
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no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
October 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
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The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-
September 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-
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I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
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So the rapture is supposed to happen this week, huh?
Now is the time for any family who has a kid playing brass in school band to shine. lay out all the clothes they've outgrown & let the kid blare his trumpet out the window at dawn.
Now is the time for any family who has a kid playing brass in school band to shine. lay out all the clothes they've outgrown & let the kid blare his trumpet out the window at dawn.
September 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
So the rapture is supposed to happen this week, huh?
Now is the time for any family who has a kid playing brass in school band to shine. lay out all the clothes they've outgrown & let the kid blare his trumpet out the window at dawn.
Now is the time for any family who has a kid playing brass in school band to shine. lay out all the clothes they've outgrown & let the kid blare his trumpet out the window at dawn.
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For years
whenever we were overwhelmed
by how much we had to do
my sister and I would joke
that perhaps
society would collapse
before we’d have to do it all,
but today when I said this
instead of laughing
she just said:
I don’t think that’s funny anymore.
whenever we were overwhelmed
by how much we had to do
my sister and I would joke
that perhaps
society would collapse
before we’d have to do it all,
but today when I said this
instead of laughing
she just said:
I don’t think that’s funny anymore.
September 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
For years
whenever we were overwhelmed
by how much we had to do
my sister and I would joke
that perhaps
society would collapse
before we’d have to do it all,
but today when I said this
instead of laughing
she just said:
I don’t think that’s funny anymore.
whenever we were overwhelmed
by how much we had to do
my sister and I would joke
that perhaps
society would collapse
before we’d have to do it all,
but today when I said this
instead of laughing
she just said:
I don’t think that’s funny anymore.
I am thrilled and honoured and a bit gobsmacked to have made the longest for the CBC Nonfiction Prize.
Congratulations to Michelle Hébert @hfxwordy.bsky.social for making the CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist, out of a field of 1,300 submissions! The only Nova Scotian on the list. Michelle was my classmate in journalism, oh, some untold number of years ago. Way to go!
A Mother's Guide to Urban Gardening by Michelle Hébert | CBC Books
The Halifax-based writer is on the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist.
www.cbc.ca
September 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I am thrilled and honoured and a bit gobsmacked to have made the longest for the CBC Nonfiction Prize.
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An underappreciated CPTSD recovery hack is to create. Create anything. Art, music, food. It doesn't have to be objectively "good," or objectively anything-- just create. Make. Generate. Creativity oils every aspect of our recovery work. It literally reanimates our brain & heart.
September 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
An underappreciated CPTSD recovery hack is to create. Create anything. Art, music, food. It doesn't have to be objectively "good," or objectively anything-- just create. Make. Generate. Creativity oils every aspect of our recovery work. It literally reanimates our brain & heart.
Having recently had to do this (leave employment to do what’s best for my mental health), yes, it is a financial hardship. But the cost of trying to make my brain work in a way it just couldn’t was much too high.
There is zero shame in having to shift or reduce your workload to focus on managing or healing CPTSD. Yes, that can come w/ economic & logistical hardships, & that absolutely sucks-- but there's no shame in it.
It's not a "failure." You are not "bad" or "stupid" or "lazy."
It's not a "failure." You are not "bad" or "stupid" or "lazy."
September 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Having recently had to do this (leave employment to do what’s best for my mental health), yes, it is a financial hardship. But the cost of trying to make my brain work in a way it just couldn’t was much too high.
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There is zero shame in having to shift or reduce your workload to focus on managing or healing CPTSD. Yes, that can come w/ economic & logistical hardships, & that absolutely sucks-- but there's no shame in it.
It's not a "failure." You are not "bad" or "stupid" or "lazy."
It's not a "failure." You are not "bad" or "stupid" or "lazy."
September 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
There is zero shame in having to shift or reduce your workload to focus on managing or healing CPTSD. Yes, that can come w/ economic & logistical hardships, & that absolutely sucks-- but there's no shame in it.
It's not a "failure." You are not "bad" or "stupid" or "lazy."
It's not a "failure." You are not "bad" or "stupid" or "lazy."
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Nobody who is judging your CPTSD symptoms or recovery from the outside could possibly conceive of the commitment & courage you need to muster every day to face this.
Their opinions are not valid & their judgments are not relevant.
Recovery focus. All day.
Their opinions are not valid & their judgments are not relevant.
Recovery focus. All day.
September 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Nobody who is judging your CPTSD symptoms or recovery from the outside could possibly conceive of the commitment & courage you need to muster every day to face this.
Their opinions are not valid & their judgments are not relevant.
Recovery focus. All day.
Their opinions are not valid & their judgments are not relevant.
Recovery focus. All day.
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You should probably also not go to IKEA this weekend. You’re welcome.
A reminder that a lot of people who aren’t used to driving in Halifax, often with vehicles that are larger and/or not their own, have descended upon us and to take a breath before gnashing your teeth (this brought to you by sitting on a bus on Spring Garden and seeing…stuff…)
August 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
You should probably also not go to IKEA this weekend. You’re welcome.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
~The Honourable Jack Layton, July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011.
~The Honourable Jack Layton, July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011.
August 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
~The Honourable Jack Layton, July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011.
~The Honourable Jack Layton, July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011.
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.