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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 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, […]
Transitioning into a new professional role can be both exciting and challenging. For me, it has been an opportunity to further meaningful work in suicide prevention as the Director of […]
When attempting to understand the concept of Lived Experience, there are two primary categories: direct and indirect experiences. Experiential understanding varies by type and across different issues like mental health […]
I am so honored to be a panelist for this event. Our panel discussion sets the tone for the day. Select social media platforms have proactively deployed sophisticated artificial intelligence […]
Insecurity
That’s a question I’ve been thinking about for the past couple of months. I feel like it will be a personal answer for many people for very different reasons. For […]
What is Lived Experience? Lived Experience seems to be on the verge of emerging as an established professional field. We discussed the meaning of Lived Experience, as well as what about it might make it uniquely qualified to be viewed as a professional specialty.
I am beyond honored to be included in the Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s Lived Experience Advisory Committee. This is the first national committee of its kind. I can remember poring […]
A few days ago, I went out to eat. Last year I chose not to go out much, especially by myself. I’m not sure how many people understood my reasons, […]