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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 recently wrote the latest Director’s Corner for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center. This installment focuses on Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AANHPI). I discuss how my […]
The American Association of Suicidology (AAS) is a professional organization dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide. The AAS hosts an annual conference that brings together researchers, clinicians, crisis center staff, […]
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. […]
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 […]