Welcome

Welcome to my Blog! I wanted this first post to share a bit about myself and what I am hoping to create. The mental health field can lead a provider quite reserved around what we share. I think it can present challenges around feeling we can know and understand who our providers are, and what has shaped them. It might make us feel anxious or overwhelmed to build trust and share about who we are within the therapeutic space. It also might challenge us to ask questions and to think “are allowed to ask them about themselves?” (The answer is yes! Your provider will set the boundary around what they can share).  

So this is the space where I want to share more about who I am, share more about myself, share about the things I love, while also sharing around the ways I am working to deconstruct my understanding of systems that impact us all. These systems play into our understanding and construction of the world, and can impact what we are trying to process within the therapeutic space. In the modalities of therapy world, we call this Systems Based Theory. So -what are the systems that impact what we are doing. 

This is the bread and butter for me of the work I tuck into with others. I recently read a quote from Dr. Jennifer Mullan who shared normalizing the response we are having to the systems we are in. She’s totally right. The goal of the work I do is to think about the self, who is the self, who is the soul, and what has impacted it. Our brains have done beautiful work to protect and support us within the stressors we exist in, but I think it’s time to connect back to who we are. To be clear I am not trying to impose a certain view of the world, but the idea that we are connected to something, we have all of the knowledge within us, and we have the ability to transform within ourselves. Sometimes we just need the reassurance that we got this.