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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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May is Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the lives and contributions of AANHPI individuals. It’s also Mental Health Awareness Month. This is […]
By Pata Suyemoto […]
According to a recent study by Ascend, only 1.5% of executives in the Fortune 500 are Asian, and only 2.8% of corporate board seats are held by Asian Americans. This […]
Tonight, I’m attending a gala for the Wolfe Street Center. I’m honored to be able to support their important work in the field of substance use prevention and recovery. As […]
Words have great power. They can heal, uplift, and inspire but also harm, marginalize, and stigmatize. So, what is safe language? Safe language means using words and phrases that do […]
Yesterday, I posted about how when we are profiting from using another person’s lived experience story, we should be compensating those individuals too. A lot of unfollows ensued. I would […]
If you are profiting in any way from another person’s lived experience story, that person should be compensated. Media attention is not compensation.Name mentions are not compensation.Attribution is not compensation.Gift […]
I can’t recall how many times I’ve learned someone was convinced, “encouraged”, or even coerced to share their personal and often trauma-centered lived experiences. Oftentimes these individuals have made excuses […]
Lived Experience work deserves more than being limited to a center-stage speaking engagement that only happens once a year. This is an invitation, it is not inclusion. This is speaking. […]
Not everyone understands isolating behaviors. I can say this from experience. It isn’t that we want to not care about anyone else, but sometimes we can’t even care about ourselves. […]
You have a right to agency. You can make the decisions about your health. You can take actions to maintain or improve it. You have a right to access information, […]
Empathic burnout can happen from extended exposure to the suffering of others. People in caring professions (nurses, social workers, therapists, etc.) constantly exposed to emotional pain and trauma often “take […]