07/28/2026
Pic of me last Thursday after work. Me and my lil overnight bag were prepared to make a 3+ hour drive to St Louis for yet another installment of a 3 year training I signed up for. Thankfully I didnt have to drive back because my new-driver son, who was already there with family, drove us all the way home. He was so excited. Love that for him.
I spent four long days learning and practicing somatic interventions I can bring back to work. Some of it was new and some was a reinforcement of what I've been doing. The learning was great. The hard part was having to do our own little therapy sessions and be the client. That was so challenging for me because I'm far more cognitive than body oriented. Ya girl likes to think, so I was definitely struggling. But I can't expect clients to do difficult work and I'm not willing to do the same. I can't just talk about it. I have to BE about it.
So though it was way outside of my comfort zone, I still showed up. By now, I know better than to come to a therapy training and expect comfort, so nothing was shocking about the difficulty.
Anyhoo, just make sure you put some respect on my name because therapists put in a lot of time, money and effort into this craft. Ain't nobody over here "just talking" to people. It's real work and its not easy, but I'm sticking by it.
