*Warning: satire* It should be no surprise that this tutorial would be coming on this site. Being a part of a community requires that you are able to form and maintain relationships with people, and accumulate good friends. When I was a little girl, my mom told me that if I wanted to have friends, I needed to be […]
How to Build Up Your Community
There are many ways you can build a community around you, and each community will look a little different. If you are contemplating the place of community within your life, the following article may give you a bit of a kick start and some ideas for how to implement this change in your life. Recognize […]
Car Trouble
A bout with situational depression seems a lot like driving a car that is low on oil. A few weeks ago, my car started to act up. I am one of those crazies that thinks it is necessary to name things, like your vehicles. So, just for the fun of it, her name is Alice. […]
Community Matters
When I was eighteen and sitting in a classroom, my professor asked the age-old question, “What did you want to be when you grew up?” As my classmates started to recount their dreams of making it big in showbusiness or winning a Nobel Prize, I subconsciously raised my hand and declared, “I wanted to be a good […]
Lonely
*Warning: mention of suicidal ideation* No one ever explains what it feels like. Sure, they try to capture it in a few words: missing friends or family empty bored the antithesis of euphoria. But then what about the swirling thoughts with no one to quiet them? What about the numbness in every inch of your skin – […]
Written Sometime in November, Mid-Haze
Thank you for loving the shadows in my mind, the dark spaces and lonely places I turn to when I want to hide away and withdraw; when I’m ashamed of who I am. Thank you for meeting me with a candle instead of a foglight. Thank you for patient reminders of your love when you’re greeted by a […]
Supporting foster families: A group therapy intervention
Introduction Over 400,000 children and adolescents are a part of the foster care system in the United States of America (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2020). Each year, over 30,000 of those adolescents age out of the foster care system, and about half of these individuals have no income four years post-exit from the system (iFoster, […]
Greetings!
Welcome to my website! On this site, you can find my résumé and some of the academic writing I have done that is relevant to the work I aim to do as I continue pursuing higher education and a career in the helping professions. If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact me […]