About Days of Action
and founder Marlene hibbs
Days of Action are rolling to you on two wheels, Canada.
Personal trainer, coach, entrepreneur and trauma survivor Marlene Hibbs has 4,000 kilometres in front of her on cross-country journey to Ottawa.
She wants to put trauma recovery and access to mental health care on the radar of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and works tirelessly in each community she reaches - Blue River, Jasper, Edmonton, Calgary - to make connections with members of the media, politicians and other influencers.
Marlene spent six years advocating for her own right to proper care, a struggle she hopes to help other Canadians avoid. The self-described patient advocate founded Days of Action as a space for any Canadian to have their pain validated and right to healing acknowledged.
But she believes our social services net needs to change, and that change needs to start at Parliament Hill.
“There is unresolved, systematic trauma in Canada,” Marlene says, “and the only solution is for the federal government to renovate social services like health and education to be more reflective of the needs of the individual.”
Marlene sees this as a human rights issue, which is why she set out from her home in Kamloops in May to ride her Norco hybrid bicycle to Ottawa, solo and without corporate support.
She has already crossed the Rocky Mountains, sometimes in the rain, sometimes in the wind, sometimes passing black bears, and always relying on grassroots support and the kindness of strangers.
About Marlene
Marlene Hibbs is a personal trainer, coach, Somatics student, entrepreneur and trauma survivor. Diagnosed with ADHD and an eating disorder, she is finally on a path to recovery after six long years of self-advocating. Her struggle to get the treatment she needs to heal convinced her nothing short of systematic change will prevent other Canadians from avoiding such unnecessary suffering.
Bike Tour Schedule
Marlene started from her residence in Kamloops and has currently made her way through the Rocky Mountains into Edmonton. She has built relationships along the way online and with media. Now that she has completed her initial goal of four days of education in her field of Clinical Somatics in Edmonton, she is now calling in politicians, other advocate groups, continued media, and anyone who desires to meet with her, to not only hear of her tour of Nation Wide Trauma Awareness, but to also comment from their elected positions of power about trauma, and mental health services in and around Canada.
She will repeat this pattern in each city she bikes through, building national momentum that will be brought directly to Parliament Hill in Ottawa where her ultimate ambition is to bring what she sees as Canada’s national theme - unresolved systemic trauma that can only be healed with federal intervention by means of renovating social services such as medical and education to be reflective of meeting the needs of the individual.