I started off writing blogs from another site I created. I wanted it to feel like we were having a conversation and I wanted the reader to get a chance to get to know me. The problem was that I was feeling torn on how to connect my blog; which is about my personal experiences both as a therapist and just another human being, with my business as a licensed professional counselor. In some ways I could still feel parts of me feeling the need to keep these two parts of my life separate. The longer I have been a therapist, the more I realize that people are craving to be known and to know others. I believe COVID magnified how much this human desire to connect is vital to our mental health.
We need people to survive and we need people to thrive.
And we don’t just need people to go through the motions. We need people to fully show up and be human. That’s what I have decided to do. I just want to be human and exist like the rest of you are striving to do. I believe we heal when we feel fully accepted by other people. One of the best ways to feel that acceptance is to know that other people have shared experiences similar to you. Yes, I am a mental health professional. I am also a human making sense of the world with one experience at a time just like you.
So here we go! 2023 has been off to a rough start because I was hit with some sort of virus that knocked it out of me. If any of you are like my family, these sicknesses seem to be lingering for the longest time. Hopefully the rest of the year goes better for us all in every aspect of our lives! This leads me to where I have been. I spent the last year or so really focusing on my practice and the care of my clients while simultaneously working through some of my personal stuff in my life. All of my energy was going towards making sure I was able to show up for all the people in my life emotionally that I unfortunately neglected myself in the physical sense. I slowly stopped working out and avoided going to the doctor for some things that I didn’t want to deal with to be honest.
Isn’t that how life goes sometimes? Balance…. Is it a myth?
We may talk about that in another post, but for now I just know I am ready to grab hold of life in a more manageable way. I’m ready to be back connecting with those of you who resonate with what I share and the lessons I feel I have learned along the way. My goal in anything I ever share is to raise awareness, get you thinking more about your life, your relationships and your experiences. You can call it an ah-ha moment, a different perspective, or a feeling. I just want you to feel the energy in you shift just enough to get you moving.
Follow along with me this year and let’s see what kind of change we can make. I’m looking forward to getting to know all of you! Let's go 2023!!!
