Welcome to my Wesbite!

I am extremely excited to share my experiences with you, and I thank you for giving me this opportunity.

Let me briefly introduce myself. My name is Nicola, though most people know me as Nick, and I live in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada.

People often shorten my name to Nic without the k, which always makes me laugh. I often wonder why people keep calling me Nic in messages and emails. That is not my name 😊. Please make sure to keep the 'k'; I promise it is an important part of me.

I was born to hearing parents and raised in a hearing culture. When I was three years old, doctors diagnosed me as deaf and fitted me with hearing aids. I could not clearly recognize sounds with them because everything came through muffled. By the age of twenty-five, I had lost most of my hearing, and the hearing aids no longer gave me enough power to hear anything at all. The only thing I could still hear was a high-pitched sound, and that led me to remove the hearing aids completely.

My life changed completely after that. I entered a world of silence. I still remember certain sounds by memory, such as my late dog Eva’s bark or the sound of footsteps coming toward me. No matter how strange they once sounded, I miss them very much.

A few years later, I began to experience tinnitus and insomnia without understanding ‘the why.’ It took me a while, but as I grew older and experienced many situations, I began to understand it.

By the way, welcome!

Please explore my book and award-winning documentary film and stay connected through my social media to see what comes next.