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10/21/2026

A few days at a cabin up north. 🍂

When preparing for EMDR, we develop internal resources to strengthen our ability to regulate. One way we do that is by creating a “calm place” in the mind: picturing somewhere that helps your body settle, then drawing into the details of the scene and stepping back into the moment with each of your senses. It can be real or a place you’ve always imagined to go. And, bonus, we can collect as many as we’d like!

When I first created my own, I chose the view from my campsite overlooking Sedona in the early morning. It helped me fall asleep, it softened my face when I noticed my jaw clench, and it brightened my day when I reminisced.

My newest snapshot is right here: changing autumn trees, Lake Michigan, crisp morning air, and c***r and donuts waiting to be eaten.

What’s a place your body relaxes just thinking about?

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10/13/2026

It’s been a few weeks since I completed the Compassionate Bereavement Care Provider certification through the MISS Foundation at Selah Carefarm near Sedona.

And in the time since, I’ve been reflecting on how incredible this experiences was how it left me feeling changed, personally and professionally.

The training centers on a mindful, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive model for supporting people through traumatic loss. And so much of what we covered put language to things I’ve felt in my practice for years but could never quite articulate as beautifully as Dr. Jo did.

Three things I’m taking with me:

1. The ATTEND model: A framework, rather than a protocol, for how to be present with another person in their grief. To exist with them in their pain instead of attempt to fix it.

2. The art of pausing: The material we covered was heavy and we were given real opportunities to pause, to check in with ourselves and our surroundings, and let emotions move through rather than past us. This is a good reminder that slowing down is part of sustainable practice.

3. The people: I spent days surrounded by professionals who think and practice the way I’ve always aspired to. Hearing their personal stories of loss and how they give back was a powerful reminder of how much it matters to learn alongside people who are as passionate I am about this work.

I left with a clearer sense of the kind of provider I want to be and better tools to support grief care.

Thank you to Dr. Jo, my fellow CBC providers, and everyone at the Selah Carefarm for holding such a meaningful space for this work.

If you work in grief, healthcare, or any helping profession and have been considering this training, I’d encourage you to go and be prepared to cry and grow! 🌀🤍🌱

10/10/2026

Today, on World Mental Health Day, take a pause. Notice where you are. Be kind to the person you find there.

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09/15/2026

📚On My Bookshelf:
Everything Changes Everything by Lauren Kessler

I do enjoy a good fictional read, but real stories are my bread and butter.

Kessler backpacks the Camino de Santiago following devastating losses. Like many other travelers the camino, she uses the walk to finally face the pain, stripping away the comforts of life and just putting one foot in front of the other. Along the way she finds a coexistence between grief and joy, and comes to understand that even when we don’t have control over the losses that happen, we can still decide how we respond to them.

09/08/2026

I’m excited to share some news: I’m now dual licensed to practice in both Arizona and Michigan! And in a few weeks, I’ll be moving back to my home state.

While I’ll continue seeing Arizona clients, the plan is to get settled and begin the process of credentialing with insurance in Michigan too, so I can eventually welcome clients there as well. More details to come.

Arizona has given me so much these past five years: an adventure, a career, a community. Moving here was such a huge leap into the unknown after finishing grad school and I’ve been better off for it. I’m deeply grateful for this time and for the experiences and people that came with it.

At the same time, I’m looking forward to being closer to family and friends, and to the change of seasons I’ve desperately missed. Here’s to the next era!

09/05/2026

31.5 Miles of Practicing What You Teach
Lessons in Braving the Unknown
📍Isle Royale National Park

08/30/2026

The Parent You Grieve Twice: On Loss of a Complicated Relationship

It’s Grief Awareness Day, the close of a month meant for talking about loss. Talking about it is what helps us normalize it, and lets us surround and support one another instead of grieving alone. What doesn’t get talked about can start to feel forgotten, or like it was never allowed to begin with.

So today, I want to make space for a loss that may go unseen: losing a parent you weren’t close with. A complicated parent who didn’t deal with their own pain, and handed it to everyone around them instead.

If this is you, you may have learned to hide it. Hiding how sad you really are, so no one asks why. Or hiding that you aren’t sad at all, so no one looks at you sideways.

So here’s a reminder. It’s okay to be sad that they’re gone. It’s okay not to be, too. You’re allowed to mourn someone who hurt you. You’re also allowed to feel very little about their absence and still be deeply sad about everything else that was lost along the way.

When a parent like this dies, you’re often losing them twice: the person who is gone, and the relationship you didn’t get to have.

Grief can take a lot of shapes and sizes. It may come as relief, and then guilt for feeling relieved. It may look like anger, or regret, or longing for a version of childhood you never got to have. None of it means you’re doing this wrong. In fact, it doesn’t need to make sense to anyone else. It’s enough that it mattered to you.

If this is your grief, please remember to be gentle with yourself, today and everyday. Consider sharing your experiences with a loved one, with your therapist, or with someone else who understands loss. You’ve hidden it long enough. It doesn’t have to stay that way.

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11/07/2025

In therapy, we do more than share our stories. We learn to feel them in new ways by recognizing helpful patterns and creating space for healing.

This is the third part in my series “not just talking” to highlight the layers of being in therapy and to shake off surface level misconceptions.

10/13/2025

Gabor Maté, physician and expert on trauma, development, and addiction, shares his perspective on trauma being less about what happened and more about an internal process that shapes how we relate to our emotions, bodies, and needs. It can be a disruption in our ability to feel confident in ourselves, to make healthy decisions, and to comfortable handle conflict.

When we understand trauma as a disconnection from self, it makes sense why healing often feels uncertain or out of reach.

Reconnection can’t be forced though. It begins to unfold as safety grows. Therapy is a place to learn what conditions allow connection to feel possible again. Sometimes that means being in a safer environment; other times it’s something we learn to build internally. Either way, healing starts with noticing the state of our relationship with ourselves and moving bravely to find our way back.

08/20/2025

Therapy isn’t static. It’s movement!

This is the second part in my series “not just talking” to highlight the layers of being in therapy and to shake off surface level misconceptions.

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