Let’s Be Well Together Podcast - Episode 124
Date: June 11 ,2024

Participants: John Webster, Noura Saad, Cameron Earnshaw and Sheila Webster
Guests: Fiona and Mike Roth

Start Times and Segments:

[0:00:16] What’s On Your Mind: It felt good to think, “I’m content with where I’m at in life”, but we wonder? Is it content and happy, or content versus happy? Can contentment hold us back at times, preventing us from getting out of the comfort zone?

[0:9:08] Expanding Minds Interview: [Social Wellness] We interview Fiona and Mike Roth. Last week we heard about a beautiful young woman, Kaitlyn Roth, who died to the disease of mental illness. They are motivated to honour Katilyn by bringing good out of what happened. They started an organization called Filling in The Gaps (fitg.org). FITG is working and advocating to improve the adult mental health system to fill in cracks in the system. For example, they’re exploring a new model of care for treating people experiencing a mental health crisis in a community clinic, instead of Emergency department. They tell us about some of the challenges to finding help, and about ideas to improve things. They hope sincerely that we can prevent other people from experience what Katilyn and her family went through.

[0:27:29] Adventures of the Starving Artist: Cameron got creative with reharmonization and a Rolling Stones song.

[0:31:50] Move That Body: We often talk about sleep making us feel better physically. We came across articles about the importance of sufficient sleep to heart health. Getting 7 to 9 hours has positive physiological effects.

[0:36:04] Running Popup: Describing energizing morning sensations that are awakening after several nights of not snacking after dinner.

[0:37:23] Flipside of the Coin: It was grueling but rewarding to spend a Spring day setting up the back yard for summer fun.

Guest Information: Fiona Roth has been a social worker for 25 years. She has worked in the children’s mental health field for her entire career. She’s committed to a community where anyone struggling with mental health is met with hope and compassion at every stage of their journey and where no one falls through the cracks.

Mike Roth has been a Registered Kinesiologist for more than 27 years. He has treated and managed multi-disciplinary health care clinics in the community and is currently supporting employees returning to work from occupational and non-occupational injuries.

Mike and Fiona’s daughter, Kaitlyn, faced many barriers to receiving continuity of care before dying to the disease of mental illness. Fiona and Mike are passionate about making sure the difficulties that their family faced in finding services for Kaitlyn do not happen to anyone else.

Filling In the Gaps organization website: fitg.org

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Thanks for joining us,
(-(-_(-_-)_-)-) Your wellness check-in team
John, Sammy, Cameron, Sheila, Elise, Isabelle, Noura and Julie