Check Their Shoes! My first job out of college, an older woman who took me under her wings.  She told me about Arby’s chocolate milkshakes (still a favorite of mine) and as a woman in a male dominated workforce, how to get the attention of men in the room.  She passed...

During a recent conversation I was trying to explain about suicide.  The other person just could not understand why someone would want to end their life.  I told them that not understand was a good thing.  That implied they had not felt that depth of pain.  People who...

Be You (who else could you be?)! One of the scariest things about starting a new school year, or starting a job, or joining any type of group, is wondering if you will fit in.  We all want to fit in.   And while “fitting in” is important, it is not as important as...

This time of year, we see advertisements for school supplies, pictures of the first day of school, and cars packed with a room worth of college gear and nervous new college students!  What we don’t see, unless you look very closely, are the emotions of the parents,...

Back to School Blues (and Red, Yellow, Green..) It’s that time of year where big yellow buses are driving around neighborhoods, school shopping becomes necessary and fears are co-mingled with anticipation of a fun, fresh start!  Whether you have a child entering...

I wish I could say that I have never worried or have never been anxious. With age, I can confidently say it happens less but it still shows up at times! As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, I know with full conviction that worrying about something does not...