Our Story

Redline Recovery was born in a moment of pressure, stress, and burnout.

At the time, I was working as a Social Worker on a Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT), responding to mental health emergencies alongside the Ontario Provincial Police. That day, I was in the front seat of a cruiser, en route to a suicide call. The lights were flashing, the sirens blaring, and the engine was redlining. The officer behind the wheel was white-knuckled — tense, focused, and emotionally maxed out.

And so was I.

We were rushing to support someone who had also reached their limit — someone in crisis. In that moment, it hit me: we were all in the red. The officer, the person we were trying to help, and myself. Different roles, different uniforms, but the same emotional threshold. The same silent overload.

Time and again, I’ve witnessed people pushed to the brink — especially those living with anxiety, depression, and trauma; first responders and frontline workers; men who push it all down; individuals in rural communities; people without an outlet. So often, there’s no space to process, decompress, or begin to heal.

That’s where Redline Recovery comes from: the recognition that we all redline. And we all deserve a path back.