Healing Centered Counseling

04/12/2026

“The real work is fugly. Stop putting glitter and ring lights on trauma work”

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04/11/2026

“Humility isn’t the absence of confidence. It’s knowing that what you carry was built by others. That the person in front of you, your student, your colleague, your child, deserves your clearest, most accessible self. Not your credentials. Not your jargon.
You.”

🌕 Welcome home, Artemis II. Thank you for the lesson.

📷 NASA astronaut Victor Glover during the Artemis II lunar flyby, April 6, 2026. Photo credit: NASA (art002e016204)

NASA chief asked the Artemis II crew to describe their mission in one word. Four astronauts. Four answers. All of them, somehow, said the same thing.
Humility.

Christina Koch, who holds the record for longest spaceflight by a woman, didn’t say “historic.” She said humility. She named Katherine Johnson. Dorothy Vaughan. The workers who put their hands on every valve of the spacecraft. “We definitely didn’t pass the record up here alone.”

Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian to reach lunar orbit, said: “Right away, you are humbled. The fact that four of us get to be out here just brings you to your knees.”

Victor Glover, looking back at Earth from 252,000 miles away, said: “You look like one thing. Homo sapiens is all of us.”

These are not people who have nothing to be proud of. These are people who chose humility because of what they know, not in spite of it.

In educational psychology, we talk a lot about expertise. About knowledge. About competence.
But the most effective teachers, coaches, and learners share this one thing: they never stopped being students first.

Humility isn’t the absence of confidence. It’s knowing that what you carry was built by others. That the person in front of you, your student, your colleague, your child, deserves your clearest, most accessible self. Not your credentials. Not your jargon.
You.

What would it look like if we brought a little more humility into our classrooms this week?

🌕 Welcome home, Artemis II. Thank you for the lesson.

📷 NASA astronaut Victor Glover during the Artemis II lunar flyby, April 6, 2026. Photo credit: NASA (art002e016204)

04/10/2026

dropping her gentle gems ✨
“Not everyone in our life belongs everywhere in our life or in every season of it”.

04/08/2026

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04/08/2026

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04/05/2026

🌿Easter represents hope, rebirth, and renewal.

After seasons that feel heavy, uncertain, or even barren, Easter reminds us that life has a way of returning—quietly at first, then boldly. It’s a reflection of both the natural world waking up in spring and the internal shifts we experience when we allow ourselves to begin again.

Even our traditions carry meaning, like deviled eggs, which have long symbolized new life and resurrection—the hard shell representing the sealed tomb, and what’s inside representing life emerging. Transforming them into something shared and nourishing becomes its own ritual of renewal: taking something simple and turning it into connection, abundance, and celebration.

Today, whether you honor this day spiritually, culturally, or simply as a marker of the season, may you find space for:
🌱 letting go of what no longer serves you
🌸 welcoming new beginnings
💛 and trusting in your own capacity to grow again

Hope is not loud—it’s persistent. And renewal doesn’t require perfection, just willingness.

Happy Easter 🤍

I made this post with the help of AI- just to be transparent (it’s early). But, the deviled eggs are homemade. Recipe by Wick'd Confections

04/03/2026

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04/01/2026

April is Counseling Awareness Month. As I thought about what this means, it provoked some internal reflection about the path that brought me here.

I still remember when I proudly shared my declaration of psychology as my undergraduate major with an older family member—and they scoffed in my face “what are you going to do with a degree in psychology”.

Well…

I’ve never doubted my calling. I did at times however, doubt the journey because it’s been quite the challenging and colorful adventure. 

Since 1997 (maybe 1996…it’s been some years) I’ve had the privilege of working directly with clients, boots on the ground, in homes, residential facilities, schools, hospitals, doctors offices, the list goes on.
I walk alongside my fellow humans through some of the most vulnerable, complex, challenging and meaningful moments of their lives.

Mental health work isn’t just what I do—it’s something I deeply believe in. It is an honor and privilege to walk alongside my clients as they navigate their lives.

I celebrate this field, my colleagues, and every person who is changing not only their lives, but the generations to come by doing the work. 

PS- Nature is my therapy 💚

04/01/2026

03/26/2026

“Let the realist thing on your feed be you”