by The Center KSQ | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
I hear this sentence sometimes and it makes my blood boil… “But you’re a therapist.” As if to say in moments if I lose my sh*t, cool, temper, patience, focus, words… that I am somehow expected to live up to a standard of perfection not set forth for others. I have...
by The Center KSQ | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Repeat after me: “Not my monkeys, not my circus.” Have you ever been so focused and hell bent on your own recovery and healing that you forget that others are responsible for their own path too? Hands in the air, all around. It’s virtually impossible to coexist in...
by The Center KSQ | Apr 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Ambiguous loss We don’t talk about it enough, or much at all. We wake, we breathe, we go about our days, we sleep. We repeat. In that hustling and shuffling about while being human, there are clear gains. And clear losses. Birth, death. Life lived, life ended....
by The Center KSQ | Apr 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Oooo that super scary F-word… feelings! I think about this often; what is it about feelings that are so scary for people? Doing clinical work over the years with kids as compared to adult clients is funny (not funny). Adults come in, you ask how they are,...
by The Center KSQ | Apr 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
When you were a child, did anyone have to tell you when something was wrong? Did it have to be explained to you? Or was it that you intuitively knew, that your body spoke to you and told you something was wrong? It’s the latter, never the former. Trauma is not...