My Simple, Happy, Beautiful Life

I remembered I used to blog and then again I remembered how much I enjoyed it. I know I have said this before many a times but I really do miss blogging.  My life has been....busy and great and full of wonderful things recently. I am almost done collecting my hours toward licensure so I can start studying to take my LCSW exam (that is not the wonderful part). The wonderful part is that I am one step closer to getting my license. I always imagined that the time to collect my hours toward getting my license would take a long time but like my title said, where did the time go? And the time has been so helpful in gaining more understanding about various skills and applying theory when meeting with clients. I have felt no rush to become licensed since I sometimes wish I could stay unlicensed for the majority of my life. No license on the line when you are supervising interns. But...I do want to get licensed. For those of who you don't know, you need 3200 hours in order to be able

I had an experience the other day with one of my students left me emotionally exhausted but it taught me so much about healing and the start of that process.  Healing is something that happens throughout the therapeutic relationship as you develop rapport. Healing occurs when the client is comfortable sharing information they have withheld because of whatever barrier held them back before. Healing is not something that happens overnight. Healing involves people, it is not a individualistic thing for the most part.  I was working with one of my students who was tough. He had a hard egg shell you could say and breaking his egg shell to where he could smile at you was difficult. A lot of times, people will look at these people and say that they are hopeless because they will never open up and continue to have behavior problems. The first couple of sessions was just getting the basic of information shared and then having to calm him down because he thought therapy was stupid.  I