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Joy Garrett M.Ed, LPC-S
Learn all the things parenting, child development, life transitions, and understanding mental health. https://a.co/d/cOiBcA8

Tips to save money & declutter your life.

01/27/2025

Everything I know about saving money, making money stretch, and enjoying life on a budget is in this book. This book is for anybody who wants to change their relationship with money regardless of income earned.

Get your copy and one for a friend.

Also available on kindle. Supplemental budget planner will be available for purchase in a couple days.

Budgeting With Joy: A Guide To Detox and Reset Your Finances https://a.co/d/huI5HU6

09/22/2024

Humility post:

I’ve been trying to navigate how to establish quality time with a teenager while respecting his boundaries and giving him space to evolve as a man.

I’ve made many mistakes over the years.

I have tried to be a male figure out of fear of the damage the absence of a father could create. In the last year, God has shown me, how in times when I needed to be soft, gentle and nurturing, I was harsh, tough, slow to understanding. I felt as he got older he needed that and wasn’t getting it from anywhere. While that may be true, it wasn’t my place to do that. I was so caught up in feeling bad that out of all my success I felt I had failed at giving my son a proper “father” that I forgot to just be…just be his mother.

All of 9th grade year was whooping both of our BUTTS in overtime! I panicked. I felt out of control over him, his life, his choices, his future, and everything related to him. I was fighting demons trying to reach him, save him and protect him. While doing so, I was fussing, I was grounding, I was taking away things he loved in the name of discipline because I felt he needed toughness at this stage. As a result, I overlooked so many changes while preaching “be a leader not a follower”, being angry with him because he “knew better.” The whole time, he was STRUGGLING, becoming a shell of himself.

I kept hearing, “stop yelling at him” but it was hard because I felt defeated. I felt I was losing. I finally could empathize with parents who give up on their children because it is HARD!

We had fallouts, hard conversations, times we both cried and couldn’t stand each other. I kept trying to understand and reach him. Then one day, I looked at him, and couldn’t recognize him. I asked him if he was depressed. He said he didn’t know because he didn’t know what that looked or felt like. Fast forward to finally finding him a therapist, severe and anxiety and depression.

My baby needed my comfort when I was fussing. When I was disappointed, he was drowning.

I felt bad bc “I should’ve known better.”

A side of single parenting people don’t see is that it’s just me. Just my perspective. Just my opinion. I was trapped between not to coddle him so I can prepare him for the real world and just being sensitive to his needs.

But as God would have it because He is gentle, loving, patient, all knowing and forgiving. He gave me and us a second chance. The opportunity to start over, invest in our relationship, grow closer, bond tighter and have room from healing. Jory is doing school from home unexpectedly but I now can see, God was up to something. We needed this. I got my son back.

I don’t know who this is for. Nobody has it figured out. It’s hard. As I always say, it’s never easy but it’s always worth it.

He will never be too big or too old to be in presence and be loved. He can lay here forever.

07/22/2024

Now accepting new clients!

12/05/2023

Interested in therapy and don’t know where to start?

If you have insurance and have wanted to start therapy but have been intimated by costs, I am willing to verify your insurance to let you know what your copay or out-of-pocket expense will be. This could be for you or anyone on your benefits (children included). I can verify for BCBS, Cigna, United Health, Aetna, Oxford, and Oscar Health. Texas only.

Due to confidentiality, do not comment any personal info on this post. I will need a copy of your insurance card, email address and DOB. Send me a DM or email me at fruitionmhes@gmail.com.

This is not to solicit business to my own practice. I will provide resources as possible and do my best to provide referrals as needed.

Feel free to share this with anyone you know.

Merry Christmas!

11/01/2023

NO-Vember Challenge. Join in on the fun.

10/27/2023

Traveling Broke | Compilation Dump
At one point I would always use sites like Houston on the Cheap to find local free or cheap idea to get my son out the house. Experiences and exposure significantly impact children’s academics and reading. Just because I was broke does not mean we couldn’t “travel.”
Overtime, it went from free, to $5, to catching flights for under $100. From Houston, Austin, Round Rock, South Padre Island, Dallas and other local places to Miami, New York, Canada, California; I’ve made traveling work for us.
It’s been a couple years due to job transitions and scheduling conflicts so this year we had a staycation which was really nice and almost free because of credit card reward points.
Some things are last minute while others took a little more planning. One thing remains the same, if there’s a will, there’s a way.
Here’s some pictures from our adventures and screenshots of cost breakdowns.

10/21/2023

Part 8 | Make it Enough

All you have is all you need.

During undergrad I ended up in a transitional living program - a program from homeless teen mothers. This program covered my living expenses in an apartment in my name for about a year. That ended up being the last year until graduation.

During my masters degree, I got married. I got into a lot of debt because I was married to someone who didn’t work consistently. By the end of the divorce, I was in $80k of debt - that was all in my name because he didn’t have credit and I have great credit.

I’m divorced now. I got out of debt in 2.5 years post divorce.

Not only did I work a lot to continue to provide for my son, I became super resourceful. I learned how to coupon, starting reselling, and found free and cheap things to do locally. Everything we did would cost $10 or less, but we were always somewhere doing something. Many times I would just find deals or free opportunities to do things that would typically cost a lot of money to do them. Experiences are priceless.

I was always committed to giving my son exposure and opportunity by any means necessary. Kids do better in school when they have more life experiences. It also helps them read better.

What I learned in that season is what is sustaining now that I am in a better position. I learned ways to earn, save and spend money that help me to this very day. It was never easy but always worth it.

My next few posts will be trips I’ve taken with my son for very little money (and very little planning lol).

10/20/2023

Part 7 | Trusting the Process

Nothing goes to waste.

I was fortunate to grow up under the sentiment that we weren’t require to work until we finished school (college included.) However, since I had a child in high school, that no longer applied to me. To make matters worse, my parents split after 25 years shortly after I had my son. So I had to work; everything was changing.

At 18, i graduated top 10% from high school, enrolled in college full time, and got my first job working at Plato’s Closet and was the only black employee. I also joined an internship as Teen Parent Educator with Depelchin Children’s Center.

At 19, I bought my first car and moved out into my own apartment. As full time student with a baby, I needed MONEY, so I worked! I worked at Express, DD’s Discounts, Nordstrom Rack, Depelchin Children’s Center, Kirkland’s, Plato’s closet. I worked 3-4 of these jobs at a time all 4 years with my son attending a 24 hour daycare so I can drop him off and pick him between classes/ shifts (at one point he went to class with me.)

Once I started teaching, I could quit working the other jobs. I still often worked side jobs for fun money. Once I got my license, I was able to work in private practice as well as work in a behavioral hospital for a couple of years as a therapist.

Once I quit working in education in April 2022, I started contracting with a group practice as a therapist for a little over a year. And now I am here, self-employed with own private practice.

Things worked out how they were supposed to even though I did NOT enjoy the process.

10/19/2023

Part 6 | School Counselor Days Yr. 4 | 2021-2022

What’s for you is for you! Nobody can close a door God has opened for you.

Every year, I had been asked to move up in the district. I interviewed for jobs I never applied for because I was recommended for the position. I interviewed for positions that I was told were created for me. I was repeatedly told that education wasn’t the end all be all for me, not to get stuck there, because I have the education and experience to excel outside of education…

And guess what?!? I was never hired for ANY of them. These interviews were used to take my wisdom, knowledge and expertise and use as their own. My last interview was on a Wednesday and in a training that Friday, my ideas were regurgitated VERBATIM! I guess that’s life though, right?!

But it wasn’t meant to be because I spent most of this school year fighting what I felt was God telling me to “quit my job.” I didn’t get those jobs because I wasn’t supposed to be working there anymore. Each year got more uncomfortable.

This is the year, I got my first memo (write-up) which was for refusing to meet with someone that I contacted HR about for harassment 🙄.

This is the year I coined Your Favorite School Counselor and began doing the morning announcements.

I cried, prayed, cried, fasted, and cried more. I started using up my PTO while I tried negotiating with God that it was a bad idea to quit before the year was over. That it was irresponsible of me and that I’ve worked too hard to become financially stable to quit my job without another lined up.

But I was obedient… eventually 😆. I quit in April and started a whole new life that I never could’ve fathomed and it’s a life better than I could’ve ever prayed for.

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