selfcare911
selfcare911
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I am first and foremost a devoted wife and mother :) My employment history includes almost twenty years in health care, and two years in Human Resources for a large social service agency, and despite any brief successes, I simply was not satisfied professionally. I would one day find myself divorced, remarried, and in the middle of a stressful family merger, to include teenagers, need I say more? Life has a funny way of showing what God has called you to do (or is it the other way around)? Slowly I began to realize that I enjoyed working with teens; spending hours sometimes, just empathetically listening and seemingly making a difference in not only the lives of my teens but their friends lives as well :) One day while driving with the usual car full of teens in tow, my step-son said to me "You should be a counselor." The light bulb slowly began to flicker on....hmmm....maybe I should. After a long conversation with God, I left it up to Him. If He wanted me to leave my almost completed MBE program and enter into another, He would need to make it easy. Soon thereafter, He would provide me with (easy) unexpected information. During a resume screening, I saw that my current graduate school offered a graduate program in mental health. How did I manage to miss this? I telephoned my advisor and it was then that she informed me that a new mental health graduate program was scheduled to begin in just a few months, right down the street from where I lived! ....it doesn't get any easier than that... Needless to say, I enrolled in Southern New Hampshire University's Graduate School Program in Community Mental Health in 2010, hoping to play a more direct role of helping children and thier families. I am now in my last year of graduate school, having finished one thousand internship hours, and I will be eligible to sit for my LCPC-c in August of 2013. Yay! :) In the meantime I am currently working on a Master's Project advocating for a self-care curricula for students, while acknowledging the importance of self-care for the helping professional. This blog is a result of not only this project, but my personal and professional recognition of the need for self-care.
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