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Rose Yoga and Healing Arts, Mountlake Terrace, Mountlake Terrace, WA (2025)

10/23/2025

Being a therapist with ADHD who at who sees 8-9 patients a day over 10 hour days is a serious struggle. Luckily due to childhood trauma, I have a photographic memory for anything emotional charged or traumatic in nature or context which definitely helps (know knew that would become a silver lining). As does the fact that I LOVE my clients with ADHD and we have a lot of fun in their sessions laughing at ourselves and our wild brains 🧠 trying to keep up with a universe designed for neurotypical people 🤪 It will be fascinating when I start leading an entire group for neurospicy peeps, and am the one responsible for staying on time & task in January. At least I’ll have less individual sessions by then and 8 hour days. I am imagining a totally entertaining tangential sh*tshow and myself as the circus director circus director or cat hurder 🐈 🎪 🎬Luckily I love these kind of challenges and at least life will never get boring 🤣😁😬😨

10/17/2025

I just got approved to reduce my work hours down to 32 from 40 and in 8 hour shifts instead of 10 hour shifts starting in December. I feel like I want to cry, rejoice, exhale, laugh & scream all at once.

This will mean 6 individual sessions a day instead of 8-9 and one ADHD support group (for reference, full time therapists in private practice usually see 4-5 a day and it’s not recommended that we see more that 5 / day but I work for Kaiser so they make us see too many). I have been operating with burn out from the first day I started this job in June of 2022.

This schedule change will mean sacrificing about $1K a month and $10K a year. It will be tight & I’ll need to make some of that up with my healing offerings. But I much prefer those and doing them in my own time, way, rhythm & peaceful pace.

Much more importantly, this change will allow me to have a life more than I have in over a decade since I started my career in healthcare when I graduated from my masters in social work. Honestly, probably in my entire life considering that before that, I was in school full time struggling and working my ass off with undiagnosed ADHD and a learning disability for what felt like FOREVER (7-8 years after high school on and off) while working and was perpetually broke.

Plus the last decade has included several wars, fascism, a recession, uprisings, increase in school shootings and a pandemic with extreme effects on people’s mental health that continue to this day. Honestly, I don’t feel like my own nervous system is even mine some days as I’m constantly helping others regulate theirs.

I’ve never chosen an easy path professionally nor one for the money nor one that didn’t involve deep demand on my compassion and patience. But for the first time in my life, I’m choosing myself: my sanity & well being. This will be a whole new chapter for yours truly & I couldn’t be more damn proud of how much I’ve healed my own and my inherited family karma and trauma drama around scarcity fears and martyrdom complex 🥱😁🙌🙏💚 💥

10/11/2025

Apparently it’s World Mental Health Day today and I am happy to share that 6 out of 8 of my therapy sessions today were with straight men. Caring, compassionate fathers, husbands, grandfathers, sons, brothers and boyfriends ranging from age 28 to 77 all doing their best to understand themselves and be good humans in our world. And that my friends, gives me hope for humankind. Men have much higher rates of death by su***de. It’s crucial that we ALL find our path to healing. Becoming the change we want to see in this world starts within.

Stigma is whack. Taking personally responsibility to heal is dope AF. Get some! ✨ 💚 🌎 🙏🌱

10/10/2025

I can’t make this stuff up. I was talking with a client this morning and mentioned my father’s wife as an example when he brought up his fear of losing connections if there’s a death or divorce in the family and I said “in my family, once you’re family, you are always family regardless. It’s a lived value to us. It’s actions to create and continue that.”

Then I realized it was her birthday today and texted her to wish her a happy birthday. She replied: “Thank you so much, Rose!!! I love you, too. I had just finished patting the Velveteen Rabbit your Dad gave me for a birthday present...letting me know that being real was the right path. I miss him and talk with him daily.” I said “ditto ❤️.”

Then I went to get coffee in our communal break room at the clinic where there’s a table where folks put random free stuff and this thing with a parent and a baby rabbit and a spot for a candle in between them was sitting there staring at me.

My dad’s native name means Crazy Rabbit 🐇 He’s clearly communicating with us today 💚🙏 thank you daddy, we love you too.

10/07/2025

Somatic Grounding Practice for Overwhelm:

Zoom-In: to your own body, breath, and needs.
* Place hands on heart and belly.
* Breathe in through the nose for 5 seconds, hold for 4-7 seconds, exhale slowly through the mouth for 7-10 seconds. Repeat 3 times.
* Begin to scan the body for sensations and emotions.
* If you identify a feeling, then scan again for what sensations that represent that feeling in the body and where they live. Once you identify this, breathe deeply into that sensation and area and ask it what it is trying to tell you, and if it needs anything from you now
* Continue breathing into your body while tenderly, compassionately listening for what it needs.
* Next do your best to follow that wisdom
*Try to do your best to not get into the logical mind if it is trying to argue with or discredit the process*

And then...

Zoom-Out: to the bigger picture of humanity and what we have gained over time through the strength, heart, and hard work of caring people.
* Look at the historical message and wisdom that everything is temporary and people will continue to evolve.
* Ask yourself if there are any actions you can take to help the greater good.
* If so either take or can take that action: e.g. prayer, donate, volunteer, write a letter or email / make a call to a public official etc.
* Be discerning about what information and in what form or amount is empowering, informative or dis empowering and make any necessary changes needed so you can stay informed but also to stay grounded in your power or balanced enough to be effective in your own life and that of others. 🌱💚🙏

10/04/2025

I love when a photo perfectly captures a wonderful feeling. Blissed out at Imagine Fest on Orcas Island under the light of the Pisces Full Moon eclipse! Thanks for the capture 🙏💚

10/01/2025

Final backpacking adventure of the season to Rachel & Rampart Lakes last weekend was lovely. Great weather, conversation, company, beautiful fall colors & delicious wild blueberries 🫐

It was ’s first backpacking trip and her birthday weekend and she did fantastic! I got her a little creme brûlée flavored cheesecake & candles birthday surprise & it turns out, it was also lovely new friend birthday this week too & beautiful ’s is coming up in a week or so. So I was extra glad to be the triple birthday fairy 🧚 I gotta say, there was something so comforting to me and helpful and supportive feeling about being surrounded by Libras 💚🙌😘♎️

Bhodi loved every minute of it as per usual 😉

09/22/2025

Happy New Moon 🌚 Equinox, Libra ♎️ season, and Solar Eclipse in Virgo ♍️ I love to adorn my home sanctuary with fresh flowers 🌺 💐 My neighbors recently have made this delightfully easy for me as they have placed gorgeous boutiques and their Venmo code with an $8 (number of magick, abundance and wealth) suggested donation in front of their home which is on my pup walk route. Now that’s some Venus in Libra Beauty meets Virgo ingenuity vibes! Wishing all beautiful release of what no longer works or served our highest good individual and collectively to make space for the most powerful, joyful & gorgeous abundant blessings ahead! Aho amen 🙏 💚

09/16/2025

Today I’ve been sober for 365 ~ 1 full year from alcohol and 370 days from ni****ne. I am stronger mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually than I’ve ever been. More in tune with and able to trust my intuition and decisions. Not running from my emotions or telling myself I can’t handle anything without the crutch of a substance or the numbing and dulling of reality. More peaceful and powerful than I’ve even been or felt. That’s a truly empowering choice to make every day. Not always easy in the moment, but always worth it.

Knowledge is power. A few books that helped my frame of mind are The Easy Way to Quit Smoking. This Naked Mind and We are the Luckiest. Challenging group think is the best way in my experience to stop the madness of poisoning ourselves to keep up with the jone’s or life only in our comfort zone. It’s literally madness if you actually think about it. Mindfulness stops insanity. And our world could use a lot more mindfulness 🧘

I’m super glad that it’s becoming more and more popular to not drink & to find others who are on this path, curious about, it or rocking it for years and still having the most fun: who have been a true inspiration to me. Thanks for blazing the trail friends and showing me how much richer life can be , Devon, , , , & my spiritual family from MMS too , .musgrave, .coachinghealing and more! And what a blast to celebrate & drink delicious mocktails with my loves newly along it at festivals this summer it feels great to be proud of each other and ourselves. Team no hangovers for the win 💚🌱🙌

Happy to chat with anyone anytime who is considering this choice or changes to their use of substances. I slowly phased it out over a few years and gathered many tips & tricks along the way.

It’s a great time in history to be fully present and awake y’all! Xoxo 😘

09/11/2025

Imagine Festival 2025 was so incredibly soul nourishing, restorative and healing. It was my third time attending and my favorite. The gentleness, openness, creative genius, healing offerings, beauty, grace and energy were on point the entire time.

I kept having experiences of feeling so at peace & seen, safe, whole & held. I also kept falling into conversations with other women, most of whom I’d never met, and immediately tapping into the exact same consciousness level. Experienced a cathartic emotional release on Friday night as tears streamed down my face and continued as soon as Max Ribner said “I’ve been doing a lot of ancestral grief healing.” I felt it all flow out. I realized I so often encourage my clients to allow themselves to cry, but so rarely give myself the time and space to just allow the tears to flow, not just for an isolated moment but for all of it. Doing so with so many other people dancing and singing together was powerful.

There were so many fellow social workers, therapists, readers, healers & artists of all kinds. My tent neighbors on either side were studying for their masters in social work, a friend from grad school was there along with a few other therapist / social worker friends & I met about 2-4 new fellow therapist friends each day. You know it’s a good time when it’s where the healers go to recharge 🙌

So many sweet moments connecting with friends who are chosen soul family. Dancing, yoga, sound bath, and breath work, tarot cards, deep chats & belly laughs. I even bought a beautiful Yoni art piece 🖼️ from a local artist.

My soul needed that. No idea why I havent been prioritizing this gathering every year, but I definitely will be back 🙏💚

09/10/2025

Went on one of the most challenging and rewarding backpacking adventures of my life this far over Labor Day weekend to Wing Lake with some of my favorite humans and pups & we even picked up a new backpacking buddy along the way. I will never cease to be amazed by this incredible planet & the majestic beauty of WA State 🌎 💚🙌🌱 🥾⛰️🏕️🪻

08/27/2025

My patient surprised me today by showing up to their session with this lovely bouquet his wife made for me from their garden. His wife is a Virgo. Check out that portable vase made out of a recycled to go soup containers with holes cut in the lid for each stem so I can safely transport it home! Now that’s some Virgo ingenuity meets gifting her spouses therapist for supporting him during their tough life transition magick if I ever done seen it! Happy Virgo Season 🙌🌱💚💪

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