Trauma-Informed, Unpolished & Unapologetic: Reflections from an Almost Social Worker
For the truths that outgrow the roles they were handed.
Honesty
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Efficiently Expecting the Worst
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≻: Efficiently Expecting the WorstWhat makes you nervous? Pretty much everything makes me nervous because my brain loves to run simulations of every possible…
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When the Floodgates Finaly Gave
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≻: When the Floodgates Finaly GaveThe floodgates I’ve been holding closed for nearly thirty years finally broke away, leaving chaos and ruin in their wake.…
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Building Something Better for Them
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≻: Building Something Better for ThemThere’s a version of our story people like to tell — the one where he stepped into my life at…
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The Work People Don’t See
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≻: The Work People Don’t SeeWhat’s something most people don’t understand? Most people don’t understand how much of someone’s growth happens in silence. They see…
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The Girl I Found My Way Back To
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≻: The Girl I Found My Way Back ToBefore everything collapsed, there was the boy I loved from tenth grade through the November after graduation. For what it…
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Weather, But Make it A Mood
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≻: Weather, But Make it A MoodWhat is your favorite type of weather? (because the forecast really does depend on which version of me woke up…
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The Voice I’m Choosing
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≻: The Voice I’m ChoosingA gentle reclamation of a voice that finally feels like mine; choosing differently so the echoes end with me. I’m…
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Feral Squirrel Energy
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≻: Feral Squirrel EnergyWhich animal would you compare yourself to and why? Probably a feral squirrel. Not the cute, fluffy kind that politely…
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The Ways I Stay Human When Things Get Heavy
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≻: The Ways I Stay Human When Things Get HeavyWhat strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? I don’t know if I’d call them strategies. Strategies feel…
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The Places I Drift Back Into Myself
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≻: The Places I Drift Back Into MyselfWhat activities do you lose yourself in? There are a few things I lose myself in, but not in the…
