Personal Reminders
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Back in June 2017, I took a risk in starting this website. It was an idea I bounced around for a few months in the back of my mind. I spoke to a few friends and colleagues about it too. I had zero clue what I was getting myself into or if I would continue…
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Sitting in my kitchen, it was a little after one in the morning. I was hopped up on three cups of caffeine from my nightly Starbucks visit. I would not usually drink that much caffeine in one sitting, but I needed to get a LOT of paperwork done. Reminiscent of my college days, I took…
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There was a time when saying that you had someone in your “thoughts and prayers” was meaningful and appreciated. When someone says that it nowadays, it often feels like apathetic. The phrase gets bashed all the time, and the definition behind it appears to have been lost in translation. As someone who often focuses a…
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The first half of 2018 was not kind to me. I lost my childhood home to foreclosure. I broke my ankle. I was in a pretty serious car accident in a vehicle I owned for less than two weeks. This is on top of normal everyday nonsense like finances, ongoing health issues, and family conflict.…
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All I can say is depression is a bitch. Not the fun kind of bitch that makes snarky comments and everyone giggles. It is the Regina George of mental health. It knocked me on my ass about three or four weeks ago. It stood in the corner of the ring staring at me. It watched…
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I’ve seen a lot of shit. In both my personal and professional life, I have either heard, seen, or experienced unimaginable events good and bad. Therefore, I developed an uncanny ability to bounce back quickly. I often can brush off the event with ease or at least process what happened towards acceptance. It should come…
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It was fifteen minutes before nine on a Sunday morning. I sat there at a diner table with my eyes anxiously darting from my phone up to the windows facing the parking lot. I glanced over at the gift card and the birthday card contemplating how I would bring up the topic. Finally, I see…
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“I have a secret to tell you. You know it’s always there — in the back of your mind.” I oversaw a small partial care program for roughly two years. Roughly 15 to 20 clients attended the three-hour long program three days a week. Even though it was a small program, these clients took a…
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I admit that I can get away with things as a community-based mental health counselor that the average counselor dreams of. I get to take my clients out into the community to parks, restaurants, community centers, drop-in centers, appointments, schools, etc. versus being confined to a desk all day long. It allows me to be…
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Working as an in-home counselor, I can do things that typical counselors cannot. Just the other day I took one of my clients out to lunch for our session. This young man has been on house arrest for a little over two months. He turned eighteen years old in the midst of all this and…
The Caring Counselor 