Superpowers
Embrace Your
I began Speak Up with a vision to share
Embrace Your Superpowers
a mental health perspective that I developed
for myself and my children.
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My experience as the Minister of Health for Manitoba,
educator in Social Work & Nursing, lived experience of mental health diagnosis, interest in current neuroscience,
and love of comic books, have all informed a perspective and set of tools that empowers and educates to end stigma.
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Great for Superheroes, their Allies, Families, and Mentors!
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Embrace Your Superpowers uses techniques from CBT, Mindfulness, Peer-Support, and is grounded in neuroscience.
It reframes mental health diagnoses as Superpowers
- seeing them as inherently neutral:
Left untreated and unsupported, they can unravel lives.
However, if understood, embraced, and focused within an empowering framework, for life-long growth and recovery,
these Superpowers can give people the ability
to thrive and succeed.
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Embrace Your Superpowers
empowers us to grow and non-judgmentally integrate the successes and failures in our on-going recovery.
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Embrace Your Superpowers provides an assets-based
stigma-free context for others to understand, and support,
the lived experience of those they know and love.
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Find Your Inner Superhero!
What You Call a Mental Illness,
I Call a Superpower!
Where Science & Superheroes
come together to defeat Stigma!
One of our greatest Supervillians!
Embrace Your Superpowers!
From The Depths:
Superpowers of Depression
Hello, My Name is Anxiety &
I'd Like to be your Superpower!
Where our childhood heroes continue to inspire us to be our best - no matter what life throws our way!
Mastering OCD/OCP
Superpowers!
Mastering OCD/OCP
Superpowers!
Inspiring
Mental Health Programs
for the young & young at heart!
Balancing Bipolar
Superpowers!
Mastering OCD/OCP
Superpowers!
Tap Into Your Team's Superpowers!
Minister with a Mood Disorder: Lived Experience in Elected Office
Keynotes!
Workshops!
Conferences!
Conventions!
“With great power there must also come great responsibility.”
- Stan Lee (1922-2018), Amazing Fantasy #15, 1962
These words from Stan Lee have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.
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They shaped how I raised my sons, how I led my classes, how I took responsibility for a provincial Health Department, and why I do what I do today, helping other Superheroes.
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As a True Believer, I recognize the value of my struggles, and of my privilege, and I seek to use both to the benefit of others.
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Thank you Stan for being one of my greatest teachers! Excelsior!
Avengers Assemble(d)!
Cosplay for Mental Health