The first time somebody was adamant that others couldn’t “make” me feel, I cried. Ugly cried. I was in emotional pain and I couldn’t see a way out. Others had the power and I didn’t know what to do. To be clear, it wasn’t abusive power. Just authority in the hierarchy of the university in which I was working. As I […]
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“North Dakota is really cold!!!” That is what almost every person told me when they heard I would be at the University of North Dakota for my year of internship. I would then smugly tell each person that my first year of graduate school had been in Boston during the coldest winter the city had
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(NOTE: A bit of Faith content) For most of my young life, I believed that other peoples feelings were my responsibility. I had to keep everyone happy and make them like me. If I didn’t, I internally felt a paralyzing fear that I was unable to articulate at that point. Now, thanks to the deep
Hello all. Before we get started, I wanted to address the Faith area of this blog. In my work, and in my actual life, I highly value all different types of people. Not all of my clients, or friends for that matter, share my same faith. So, as I thought about this blog and journeying
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