Cashion Creative Counseling

08/04/2025

https://www.cashioncreativecounseling.com/post/freedom-and-acceptance

The one where I unpack my need to understand and how it gets in my way of acceptance and freedom.

One of my favorite Beyonce songs is Freedom featuring Kendrick Lamar. Its a powerful, upbeat song that I have used in many a dark day to motivate me to work towards my own 'freedom.'While I have led a privileged and lucky life with many freedoms, I have experienced the trauma and abuse that comes wi...

07/01/2025

New blog post reflecting on an excellent lesson in boundaries.

In this picture, it doesn't look like much is happening. Two handsome horses, standing across a gate in the morning sun. The story behind this picture is one of youngsters making mistakes, bonds forming over short hours but important choices, and the education that one being gives to another. And my...

06/10/2025

"We do metta, we learn metta, we teach metta, we live through metta. But the piece that elevates metta to the terrain of connection with each other, the universe, nature, so that we are not separate from any of it, is compassion.

If one connects into the compassionate heart, it’s going to, at times, bring one to a place where you have to be present with personal suffering and the suffering in the world. And that can be a place that oftentimes is so difficult that we find all these ways to turn away from it. The only way we can actually meet each other and meet the world and what’s happening is by strengthening the heart." —DaRa Williams

06/05/2025

New blog post about breaking and breakthroughs.

Do we get a choice? How do we turn our breaking moments, our broken feelings, into a life changing or life-affirming breakthrough? Is this something in our power to do or, like a bull lead by a ring in the nose, are we powerless in life's clutches? In the oppressive systems that steer the ship we li...

05/19/2025

New blog post about grief, how bad we are at it and how important it is to feel it, especially right now.

We humans are terrible at grief. For beings who cause so much destruction, we suck at mourning loss. We have whole industries based on avoiding aging. We create stories about immortality. So many people believe in an afterlife where everything is magically perfect (and boring if you watched The Good...

04/21/2025

https://www.cashioncreativecounseling.com/post/radically-imagining-a-better-world

New blog post about grieving the world we have been living in, thought we were living in, and imagining what our world could be. Sharing a few thoughts and an interview with adrienne maree brown and Krista Tippet.

It is hard to find hope right now, as I have reflected before. Because of the oppressive systems that rule our society, the world is on fire, both literally and metaphorically. People are feeling scared, hurt, and helpless. And yet...This system didn't start being harmful in 2025, 2024, 2016. 2008,1...

04/08/2025

New blog post on the uncomfortable feeling of growth and healing.

I don't like being uncomfortable. I know. Understatement, who wouldn't agree. Many of us who come from the privilege of being housed, clothed, fed are used to having our needs met and then some. We're used to all the subscription services, many without commercials. We're used to buying what we need....

03/12/2025

https://www.cashioncreativecounseling.com/post/the-good-in-me-loves-the-good-in-you

New blog about fierce compassion and being rooted in love

The past few months, well, years really, have made it EXTREMELY hard to love humans who I do not morally and ethically agree with. I support LGBTQA+ people of all identities. I have compassion for refugees, immigrants of all kinds, and POC. I believe we should live in justice and equity FOR all peop...

02/25/2025

https://www.cashioncreativecounseling.com/post/finding-hope-in-the-darkness

I wrote a blog about finding hope in the darkness of despair.

These are dark times in the world, seemingly especially the US. We are swiftly being harmed by racist, sexist, ableist, classist, and xenophobic policies. My clients are effected, my friends are effected, my family is effected, my community is effected, and I am effected. It has been a dark time for...

02/10/2025

New blog post about finding community!

If you have been paying attention to many healers, some therapists, and social justice activists/advocates, you'll hear the charge to find your community. But what does that mean? How do we do that? Where do we find "our people" if we haven't already for whatever reason? Humans were meant to live in...

02/04/2025

I’m pretty sure they think
that erasing “DEI”
will erase us.
They are wrong.
We cannot be
disappeared.
Our history speaks
for itself.
We remain.

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!

01/31/2025

Today’s joyful thing is this lovely natural watercolor set, recycled notepad with watercolor paper, and candle that my partner bought me for my bday. I like that it’s small so I can take it anywhere.