Speaking
Fearlessly Always
Welcome to my blog!
This is the space where I share professional insights, personal stories, creative writing, and day-to-day reflections. My writing chronicles my living experiences and acts as a place where I can personally offer you professional expertise and best practice ideas.
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I slipped into my sadness, one timid toe at a time. Sinking softly into the warm waters of woe. My skin dipped into the depression, and dazzled as though diamonds […]
You slinked up to me silently and waited to be seen. I glanced at you coyly but for half a look. I saw you pretend not to see me. I […]
People think personal stories are static. Maybe it’s because many of us wrote our English assignments in pen on paper—fewer today than years past, though. Or because we haven’t been […]
Hate is a lack of heart. Hate is the result of violent unchecked rhetoric. It starts with talk and grows in environments where it is fed. We feed hate online […]
How many conversations have there been about including individuals with lived (and living) experience(s) over the years? As a field, the mental health space has prescribed answers for those of […]
Told I was difficult, cold, callous. Told my expectations were too high That I demanded too much. I have been loved hard, Thrown down when times were tough, Forgotten when […]
Silence is a powerful expression. One that is feared, misunderstood, and misjudged. Within silence, we can find deep thought. We can explore the pangs of our feelings and pause to build the skills needed to interpret them. Silence can hold joy. It can temper our tongues so we taste happiness, which we do not do often enough. Silence can force consideration or cause us to realize what we had sworn we would never. Silence can cut, oh so tragically deep. It can cleave our hearts into shreds and stare coldly at us as the torn tatters slip through our fingertips.
I should not speak of others. How dare I speak of you? For if I do, I become an enemy outlined by assumptive invisibility. You know, I do not understand. […]
Early in my prevention career, I attended an annual employee training. I was new with the company and had only met a handful of my coworkers at that time. The […]
Hello, Stranger. I know you care deeply and want everyone to know. You have a voice that must be heard. But if others speak, you fear your voice will be […]
I looked for strength today and I couldn’t find it in all the places where the warriors told me they would wield it for me. I searched their histories, their […]
I see you groping for the door. Leaning your graceful face my way in apprehension. You want me to run to you. To take your hand in mine and speak […]