Kimberly

Writer | Dreamer | Mental Health Advocate | Transplanted Minnesotan and CDN Immigrant | The Simple Things | Follow Your Heart

[Professor Ahmed Hankir @ahmedhankir]

Lived experience is so under-rated

I understand that knowledge can be acquired through scholarship & novel data can be generated through research

But nothing can replace the insights gained through lived experience

Experts by experience should be given the respect they deserve

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

This is excellent. The integration and holistic approach of addressing mental and physical health is something I’ve been advocating for since I got to Canada and experienced my own challenges. A great step for our city!

[CMHA Windsor @CMHAWECB]

Unique model - specialists in #mentalhealth AND #physicalhealth. We help connect people to services for made in @CityWindsorON @EssexCountyON place. #CHWW2019 #YQG #MentalHealthAwareness #Wellbeing

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

The Ministry will have big shoes to fill. Julie has empowered so many patients and caregivers to find their voice in advocating for patient partnership. I’m honored to have worked with her and the rest of the MPFAC council members.

[Julie Drury @SolidFooting]

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It's the end of a significant role for both myself & the province of Ontario. My mandate as Chair of the Minister's Patient and Family Advisory Council ends August 31st. I will not be returning, but am hopeful the Minister's PFAC will continue @ONThealth @celliottability

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

Canada is built on multiculturalism and prides itself on its diversity, “politeness”, and inclusion. This message contradicts that. Unless you are Indigenous to this land, you are in Canada by way of immigration.
So, give it a rest.

[The Current on CBC Radio @TheCurrentCBC]

Good morning! First up today, we’re discussing the removal of billboards telling Canadians to “Say NO to Mass Immigration,” after complaints they were promoting anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric. (Image: Carolyn Ray/CBC)

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

@TheCurrentCBC Well, I don’t know about others, but I paid nearly $10,000 in immigration fees and dissolved all my savings in order to live in this country, and I get no financial assistance from the Canadian gov’t whatsoever, so who’s making money off of whom here?

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

I love this! Some of us leave our home countries to create a new home in Canada. Everyone belongs and deserves to have a place to call Home. 💕

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

There is too much power being given to bureaucracy in health care services, where the need for genuine compassion is essential. These structures and formalities address the numbers and figures but lose sight of the patient voice in the form of barriers and red tape.

[CMHA Windsor @CMHAWECB]

Register is now open!
https://t.co/WVfrZYPg6S
#suicideprevention
retweets welcomed!

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

Filed also under:

“Commitment is following through with what you said you would do long after the feeling in which you said it has passed.”

[Mario Lopez @hemo_philiaMan]

Commitment is shown by your actions!

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

“Leadership is not a competition. It's helping others to reach their full potential.”

[Julie Drury @SolidFooting]

Could not have stated it more perfectly.
#WhyWeRevolt

[CMHA Windsor @CMHAWECB]

Launching suicide prevention awareness month @CMHAWECB ⁦@TheWECHU⁩ #youarenotalone

[Oprah Winfrey @Oprah]

The most powerful lesson I ever heard on Trauma came from @IyanlaVanzant ” Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed.”That’s what we’re witnessing even when we don’t recognize it. Folks bleeding out thru, drugs, alcohol, rage, et all! #QueenSugarTalks

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

I’m registered!

Join the largest Suicide Prevention online conference for mental health professionals ever held. Registration is FREE. This is an excellent opportunity for health care clinicians and advocates!

Register here:
https://t.co/oxxnAWvs6K

[Julie Drury @SolidFooting]

“Power and health are inseparably linked. You can’t be an empowered patient and get the health outcomes you want with inaccurate information and half-truths.” Dr.Jennifer Gunter

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

Would be interested to see the correlation btwn patients in the limbo of pre-diagnosis & the rate of diagnosed medical induced PTSD & depression. Undiagnosed probably even higher.

Tests, uncertainty.

Just another scenario of how physical and mental health are interconnected.

[The Hospice of Windsor and Essex County @HospiceWindsor]

The Hospice of Windsor and Essex County Inc. presents the 6th Annual Conference: Acting from Compassion and Awareness. Please join us on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at the Serbian Centre for a full day of guest… https://t.co/Q1au1VDRPM

[Kimberly @kkimberlyj]

(2/2) A patient is then arbitrarily placed with another therapist and has to re-tell their story again, now with a distrust of the system and fear that their therapist will terminate once again. Suicide rates go up. There has to be a better solution to this.