Christa Couture: Resilience Unimagined
Christa Couture refers to herself as a “singer, songwriter, storyteller and cyborg”. She’s an award-winning performing and recording artist, a non-fiction writer, broadcaster and filmmaker, and hosts a travel docu-series.
She is proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled – an above-knee amputee – and a mom. She knows profound heartbreak, sharing stories with thrive from her memoir How to Lose Everything about her extreme experiences and emotions around loss.
Christa is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer and disabled. As a mother, she knows profound heartbreak and has shared her extraordinary journey in her memoir How to Lose Everything, a book that intimately shares her most extreme experiences and emotions in and around loss and grief. As a filmmaker, "How to Lose Everything: A Field Guide", inspired by her book, won Best Animated Short at the Imagine This Women's International Film Festival in 2021.
An amputation of her right leg at the age of 13 was the cure for her childhood bone cancer. A divorce, born of out grief, stemmed from her first child’s single and only day of life, and the subsequent death of her second child before his second birthday. Then more cancer and a thyroidectomy threatened her musical career and prompted a move across the country to start over. These are the stories that connect Christa’s dots of sorrow, despair and heart-one hope.
As a singer-songwriter, her seventh album, "Safe Harbour", was released in 2020. Christa is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio, now calling Toronto home after living for many years in Vancouver.
Christa is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer and disabled. As a mother, she knows profound heartbreak and has shared her extraordinary journey in her memoir How to Lose Everything, a book that intimately shares her most extreme experiences and emotions in and around loss and grief. As a filmmaker, "How to Lose Everything: A Field Guide", inspired by her book, won Best Animated Short at the Imagine This Women's International Film Festival in 2021.
An amputation of her right leg at the age of 13 was the cure for her childhood bone cancer. A divorce, born of out grief, stemmed from her first child’s single and only day of life, and the subsequent death of her second child before his second birthday. Then more cancer and a thyroidectomy threatened her musical career and prompted a move across the country to start over. These are the stories that connect Christa’s dots of sorrow, despair and heart-one hope.
As a singer-songwriter, her seventh album, "Safe Harbour", was released in 2020. Christa is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio, now calling Toronto home after living for many years in Vancouver.
"I've had tragedies in my life, but my life is not tragic," explains Couture. Read the full article by clicking the link below.
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