A Year-ish in Review

What I learned since joining Substack

I’ve been planning this milestone post since well… October 14 to be precise. That’s the date that marked one year on Substack. But so much happened and here I am at the end of 2023 doing a year in review.

I decided to come out as a therapist and survivor in August 2022 and made my first post two months later. This was a big deal for me on many levels. How do I reach people who want to forget what happened to them? How do I maintain my professional status and standards as a therapist? How do I tell stories with appropriate boundaries and yet share what I’ve learned on my journey as a survivor and therapist who knows trauma theory? How do I do this while doing all the other things in my life, running my private practice, raising my kids, writing a book, and developing dance/movement-writing therapy workshops?

Such is living in conscious motion.

The fact is there is only so much time and there are certain priorities. And sometimes I must slow down because I am drained and need to recover my…