I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor who is strangely unskilled at technology, values privacy, and has an antiquated relationship with social media . . .
So, why a blog?
Because when I’m at my lowest, I turn to Google.
I know better. I encourage my clients to reach out to someone in their support network when they're feeling low. But what do I do? I go to the internet. And I hope there is some gem there amidst all the bullsh*t. Don't get me wrong, I eventually end up reaching out to my support network and utilizing my healthy coping skills. But more often than not: it's google first and everything else later.
If you’ve done a google search in a moment of desperation, then you know that sometimes what you find can make you feel worse. But when we do find something that speaks to us and to what we’re going through, that puts words to our struggle, it feels like a gift.
While most of my clients are young and young-ish (20s, 30s, 40s) women, a lot of the issues I work with are universal and will be what I cover in this blog. I specialize in grief, self-worth, and common barriers to self-worth (depression, difficult upbringings, and religious trauma). I'll also write about infertility because of my personal experience with it.
We weren’t meant to do any of this alone (life, struggling, figuring out how to adult, responding to loss, finding meaning . . . any of it).
It’s thanks to the words, care, support, and empathy of a village of people that I am who I am today. Amongst those, I include my "soul teachers" (gifted writers whose books gave me much needed guidance) and strangers whose words I was lucky enough to find on the internet. If any of my words happen to resonate with you, it will be a privilege to be a part of your village. In case you're like I am—you know better and yet you still turn to google for help—I hope my words find you.