Hillary Marshall, LCSW

04/15/2025

Emotions as waves and how to process emotions

04/05/2025

03/27/2025

needs vs. wants

Distinguishing between needs and wants is essential for maintaining stability and achieving long-term fulfillment

11/08/2024

I needed this reminder today.

10/07/2024

Grieving the tragedies of the past year and the past millennia.

04/30/2024

04/27/2024

Is Legal Always Ethical? Mobilizing Systems and Taking Creative Action.

04/17/2024

https://socal-social-work-womens-council.ce-go.com/mobilizing-systems-and-taking-creative-action

As social workers who relentlessly pursue social justice, we explore alternate perspectives for viewing the world, our clients and ourselves. Simultaneously we consider the laws and regulations which define the scope of our work and the unspoken biases that determine options and outcomes. This two-s...

07/19/2023

I needed this reminder about being alive, so I’ll share here

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:
“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!"
Kurt Vonnegut

12/13/2022

a little about me....

11/07/2022

Why biodiversity and antiracism work are vital for life on Earth

This video was made in partial fulfillment of course requirements at Viridis Graduate Institute (www.viridis.edu).Note: This video contains no therapeutic a...