About me
I’m a writer of creative nonfiction – essays, memoir, opinion pieces, research-based articles. I write to heal intergenerational trauma for myself, my community, and Vietnamese people worldwide. My primary targeted audience is Vietnamese millennials like myself. I see my writing as a healing tool, for Vietnamese people and also for all historically oppressed communities/peoples whose descendants are grappling with inherited trauma.
I put a lot of thought into each article. Sometimes I edit a draft over the course of months. I only post pieces that are worth your time reading and send out new articles to my email subscribers – you can sign up on the right side of this page. No spam emails. Ever.
Since I became a mom in 2020, I have very little free time. I publish a blog post as often as I can, but as you can see, that’s not often. The chances of seeing me on Instagram is a bit higher – you can also look there.
About this blog
This blog is for my Vietnamese people, to support our collective healing and unity.
We inherited historical trauma. Part of collective healing is to recognize how global, structural racism damaged our sense of peoplehood, divided us, and reinforced inter-generational trauma.
Healing is transcending inherited patterns of thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that don’t serve us. Healing is celebrating our resilience, our knowledge, our culture and language, and the ways we surmounted obstacles as a people.
Our historical trauma and division was inflicted on us as a collective. So our healing must be collective.
Part of healing is bringing awareness of mental health in our everyday life. The notion that mental health is an illness to be treated in medical or clinical setting is exactly why it’s an untouchable topic for our community. I want to bring it out of the clinical context and into our everyday life where it’s more approachable and relevant.
Mental health is about wellness. Mental health is in your thoughts, your feelings, your relationships, your conversations, your habits, your family, your history, your beliefs.
Historical trauma is not a mental illness to be treated with a prescription. It’s a collective wound to be treated by building understanding and unity within our community.