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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.
I hope you will join my journey and stay in touch!
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🧵 I’ve been thinking a lot about those powerful, rare moments when someone truly sees who you are. These happenings remind us that lived experience isn’t just something we carry, […]
The phrase or term “lived experience” is everywhere. It’s become a professional profile to the point that people (myself included) have it on their LinkedIn, bios, and resumes. While I’m […]
Today is the anniversary of the day my father passed. This day has a way of suffocating me in all the old feelings of loss and abandonment. Every so often, it’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I was standing in the history section of a popular bookstore, perusing the president aisle. These days, just saying the “p” word causes an unquietable uproar. P for president and […]
If you want to stand out, you can talk shit about the folks who are forced to remain voiceless. They are the easiest ones to discuss. You know the ones. Well, […]
Because you never showed me love, I was forced to look for it in other places. But as I was but a child, I was shown so few real choices. […]
There are certain behaviors that, even if unintentional, can damage trust and harm those who disclose suicide-centered experiences. In the field of suicide prevention, there’s often guidance on what *not* […]
There are simple and effective behaviors that can deepen trust and offer support. The field of suicide prevention has long discussed what individuals should and shouldn’t do in response to […]