Growing Through It
Content Overview: Disclaimers, Introduction
I never really envisioned myself being someone who sits down to write a blog, let alone someone who sits down to write, or, quite frankly, someone who sits down to parse through and share my thoughts at all.
But then I found myself, week after week, encouraging my clients to find somewhere, anywhere, for their thoughts to go. To write them down. To scream them into a pillow. To furiously type them in their notes app. To use something, anything, to be able to ensure that they know, that they feel, that their thoughts, feelings, and words are something inherently worthy of being expressed, whether it’s witnessed or affirmed by someone else or not.
So, here we go. I hope you enjoy bearing witness to my thoughts as I grow through it.
But first, I did want to share some ground rules for this teeny tiny corner of the internet:
This blog is not a replacement for therapy. I cannot provide therapeutic services outside of scheduled therapy sessions. If you are interested in therapy, yay! Please reach out through phone, email, or fill out the intake form to schedule a session.
Please engage in self-care, preservation, and regulation when reading triggering content. I will always do my best to add content overviews at the beginning of each blog.
I want to be respectful of past, current, and future clients in regards to how much (or how little!) they would like to know about me as their therapist. I will always add content overviews at the beginning of each post so clients have the ability to decide if they would like to read or not. For example, some blog posts will include more of my personal thoughts and feelings, while other blog posts are going to be psychoeducation and coping skills.
I also encourage clients to bring anything that resonates or comes up while reading the blog into a session so we are able to further explore it in a way that feels safe and grounded.
This space is not for crisis support. If you’re in crisis, please call 988 or visit your nearest emergency room.
This blog is written from my perspective as a therapist and human. I am not (or at least no one has told me) that I am the world’s smartest, best, most effective, talented therapist in the whole wide world. And I am definitely not a perfect human.
If I want to write in a way that is authentic, which I do - that means I may misstep, or share something that doesn’t land quite how I’d like for it to. But, I’d like to hope with each mistake I make, I leave the door open enough to learn something new. So, feel free to come on in and teach me something new.
That being said, I may change things with this blog - and change them again, and again, and again.
Well, I think that’s enough rules for now. (See rule #5 for how it may not actually be enough rules so the rules may change in the future)
Anyways, I’m happy you’re here.
And I look forward to talking to you soon.
-SJ