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The stories we share

For Hmong Americans, patchwork and embroidery are keys to preserving history and documenting the future By Pachia Vang “What’s Hmong?” It’s a question I hated…


Bad trip

Joey advises a reader on how to deal with her boyfriend’s pressure to microdose LSD.






Beauty and terror

How can this struggling writer get past childhood trauma and finally create stories with abandon?


A healing voice

Psychologist’s refugee story remains a motivating force behind her trauma work in Sacramento When Dr. Carolee Tran recalls her last glimpse of Vietnam as a child, the most…








Friends in low places

Joey advises a reader to not let her self-worth be determined by her former best friend’s bullying behavior.