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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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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. […]
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 […]
Compassion is the real key to resilience. Self-compassion is treating oneself with kindness, understanding, and forgiveness, especially during difficult times. It is about recognizing that we all make mistakes. We […]
Continuing on the theme of Burnout… Destructive leadership causes toxic cultures which in turn decimate a person’s wellbeing. It only takes a single harmful leader to destroy a culture from […]
Burnout is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It can occur when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant […]
Suicide prevention is a critical issue that requires collaboration and effort from different community sectors. To address one underserved sector, I have been working with jails and detention centers to […]
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’m a returning presenter at the Safe Schools Conference, discussing suicide prevention and the need to do more in schools. I’m pictured here with Michael Jenkins who does so much […]
I am honored and grateful to have been selected as one of the 2022 Future 50 by Arkansas Money & Politics. It’s a great feeling to be recognized among the […]