Seven Ways To Live

Seven Ways To Live est. 2018
🧩 Services In Western PA & OH
📚 Mental Health Wellness & Education
💬 Presentations, Classes, & Workshops

05/12/2026

Grateful for the opportunity to create something so meaningful 💛 This is my 7-min video interview for The Instant Photo: Family Stories program, a collaboration between and , where I share my thoughts on identity, my family’s immigration story, and my experience as a creative business owner.

This program is working with youth (ages 6–13) from the Asiatown Learning Circle, helping them explore and tell their family stories through instant photography. Thank you to my dear friend for thinking of me for this project!

I remember a couple years ago seeing a Lao last name on an ad for Target or always looking for Lao people being credited in movies. It’s such a proud feeling for all my Lao brothers and sisters. Storytelling like this matters. Representation matters. Creating space for young people to see themselves, their families, and their experiences reflected, matters.

02/05/2026

When I was a teenager, the weight of my mental illness felt like the weight of the world. It felt like I would never get better, things would never change, and I wasn’t fit to have a good life.

To end my suffering, I decided that 23 would be my last year on Earth.

In 2018, I travelled to Chicago on a trip that ultimately changed my life in so many ways. I have a note in my phone to this day that I wrote during that trip,

“Today is the day I realize that nothing is worth killing yourself over because life has been so beautiful”

Even then, it wasn’t easy, it wasn’t a flick of a switch, but it was a start. I relapsed and attempted one more time in 2020. It was the first and only time I ever was afraid to die because of the potential of what I would loose the life I was building. That ultimately was the moment everything changed. I cannot imagine that the life I have today is mine. I’m so lucky that I’m alive, I’m so grateful for every lesson, I’m so blessed for my family, my friends, and my journey.

I’ll be 29 this year 🤍

Your sign to stay today 🌿While you’re here today, try one of these things that helped me make life feel fuller. • Smile ...
10/01/2025

Your sign to stay today 🌿

While you’re here today, try one of these things that helped me make life feel fuller.

• Smile for 1 minute straight even if it feels weird (there’s a science behind this!)
• Reframe a negative thought about yourself (“I have that” vs. “I deserve this”)
• Sit in silence and throw your phone far away for 5 mins or more.
• Don’t guilt yourself for doing something you enjoy

I had the wonderful honor of hosting 8 workshops over the summer through The Cleveland Freedom Project’s Social Justice ...
09/03/2025

I had the wonderful honor of hosting 8 workshops over the summer through The Cleveland Freedom Project’s Social Justice Through S.T.E.A.M. Summer Program

The virtual workshop surrounded themes of identity, how to build and practice boundaries, self-affirmation/ identity work, self-care, and resulted in the Youth Mental Health First Aid certification 🧡

Slide 4️⃣: These are the affirmations that we created and repeated at the beginning and end of each workshop.

A very special thank you to the leaders of CFP for inviting me back for another year of hosting my workshops this summer and the opportunity to interact with wonderful, empowered youth 🥺

📕 I also had the amazing opportunity to work on their class legacy book “Raised In The Fire” providing editing and formatting assistance through my creative business “I Don’t Have Time For That,” which provides non-profits and community organizations with affordable assistance for creative tasks like social media, marketing, and more since 2018 (stay tuned for the new socials for that 🎨, we’re rebranding!)

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Another Tuesday has come and gone. How are you feeling this season? 🌿 comment below: 
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06/04/2025

Another Tuesday has come and gone. How are you feeling this season? 🌿 comment below:

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Welcome to Tuesday ☁️ Wishing you all the fresh starts, new beginnings, and exciting turn-of-events that life can bring....
05/27/2025

Welcome to Tuesday ☁️ Wishing you all the fresh starts, new beginnings, and exciting turn-of-events that life can bring. Be easy with yourself. 🤍

You don’t have to earn care.Water yourself as needed.You’re meant to bloom 🌱
05/21/2025

You don’t have to earn care.
Water yourself as needed.
You’re meant to bloom 🌱

another Tuesday photo dump 🌞 to get you through the week.
05/21/2025

another Tuesday photo dump 🌞 to get you through the week.

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