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05/23/2025

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05/22/2025

My book is on sale!! If you’ve been waiting to buy it or want a hardcover copy, the hardcovers are on sale today on Amazon!

05/22/2025

Not yet child, but someday maybe you’ll wear your own fancy hat 👩🏼‍🎓

04/05/2025

This is what it looks like when I teach couples therapy class online.

It’s messy and complicated and colorful.

In the last two days we covered some pretty important content….infidelity, perpetual problems, softening, contempt, being your authentic self, moving from content to process, LGBTQIA+ clients, and how to close with couples. Whew.

And all on a beautiful sunny 70° spring day outside.

I could be bummed that I’m stuck teaching on such a beautiful day.

But gosh, the work and learning happening in this zoom room today is pretty damn beautiful too. These students are working so hard to learn to hold space for people.

And THAT is stunningly beautiful. ☀️

And I’m honored to be a part of it.

Counselors, you’re amazing. Students, you’re amazing. COUNSELING STUDENTS, you’re THE BEST. Thanks for bringing the sunshine inside today. 💛

03/23/2025

Burnout…

At the beginning of March when I started questioning if I was burned out in my job, that should have been my answer. Yes.

But with a vacation just on the horizon I kept pushing. Going. Doing. Teaching. Seeing clients. Supervising therapists. On repeat.

Completely and utterly burned out exhausted.

I know how it happened.

But then P**F! there it was. Burnout.

I’m now on vacation. I’ve been reflecting about how to spot it, what to do about it, and how to avoid it when possible. And how to repair from it.

I don’t have all the answers yet. And I’ve been a therapist for over 20 years. But I keep trying.

And for now. I’m trying to be here. Be present.

03/19/2025

Real talk here.

I sat down with Dr Nancy to prep for this upcoming series on peri/menopause. I’m 47. I know I’m riiiight there in the thick of it. I’m the test case for this presentation. It’s about me. For me. For you.

I had so many questions for her. One day of prep we sat for THREE hours and I asked her alllllll my questions. What about night sweats? What about the insomnia? What about birth control? What about s*x? What about my mom’s history of breast cancer? What about my anxiety spikes? What is this brain fog? What vitamins should I be taking? How do I ask for what I need?

She sat and answered every single one of my questions. With tears in my eyes I said to her “Nancy, THIS is what women need.”

And so this is what you will get. Answers. Time to ask questions. Information provided based on someone who is living it and asked all the questions.

Join us. This is the real stuff and we’re talking about.

Register at michelleEngblom.com/pause

03/17/2025

Working on the PowerPoint for the upcoming training on peri/menopause and the statistics are so alarming. 9% of women are talking about menopause. Let’s change this!

Come and join the conversation.

Michelleengblom.com/pause

03/15/2025

said some pretty amazing things about my book,

“I wish grad school me had a copy of this book, and I am so glad current me does!”

Head on over to their page to see what else they recommend and all the other lovely words they shared about The Heart of Counseling.

03/14/2025

You’re invited! Join Dr. Nancy and I as we unpack various aspects peri/menopause.

We’re covering a lot of ground over three live webinars but we start with the symptoms.

You’ll have an opportunity to take a quiz real time and get real time answers. Register for one or all three!

03/04/2025

The process of learning in a classroom is relational. It asks students to trust, to share, to ask, and to learn. From self and from others.

At the end of my Couples Therapy class I invited students to share their “thank you” notes to self and others.

Learning involves a process of changing and is best done in relationship.

“Thank you for your kindness and encouragement”

“Thank you for allowing me to be vulnerable, seeing me, and providing the safety to do so.”

“Thank you for letting go of some of the perfectionism”

“Thank you for providing space for me to beme whether I felt too big, toosmall, too lova or too quiet.”

03/02/2025

Team Pursuer

I taught a class on Emotionally Focused Therapy and wore my “Team Pursuer” shirt thanks to .bubs

It took students about 20 minutes into the class before someone noticed it and the class erupted in laughter and groans.

Learning is fun.

02/14/2025

Sad but true sometimes…often times.

Do your own work. You’re worth it.

The change of patterns start with you, parents.

And yes, that means me too.

Sometimes love looks like getting therapy. For you, for your partnership, for your children.

Love means doing the work.

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