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 to be quite reserved around what we, the client and the practitioner, share. I think this can make it challenging to believe that 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. They will also explore with you why you might be curious to know more about them).
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 the therapy world, we call this Systems Based Theory; or what are the systems that impact what we are doing?
Our brains have done beautiful work to protect and support us within the stressors we have experienced, 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’ve got this.
Soul Work creates a space of exploration, of pushing through constructs of our world, (yes the same systems I was mentioning above) while shifting towards our own center, or the healed version of ourselves.
