“It’s fine. I mean it’s not fine. But it’s fine” That has been my go to phrase lately. To be real, the last 4 months of my life have been filled with some pretty life altering shit. Some great, most of it…not so great. It’s all basically come to a head in the last 2 … More It’s fine.

After spending a week in a small room with 12 other people I had just met working on counseling skills, I learned a lot about committing to emotion. We tend to say we’re “kinda upset”, “maybe a little bit sad”, etc. I have no problem now committing now to the phrase, I am angry. Let … More I am angry.

So…it’s been a while. What can I say life happened. I started grad school. I had to go through the most stressful 2 days of my work life. I lost one of the amazing women in my life. I started and stopped trying to come up with the words to honor her for months. And … More To grandma; with love.

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself” – Chelsea Handler  I think as we get older we start taking ourselves a bit too seriously. We get bogged down in the to-dos of life, weighed down by responsibilities to work, school, significant others, friends and all other people and things fighting for our … More Learning to Laugh

Last June I graduated from Western Washington University after 4 years with a BS in Psychology. As I crossed the stage to receive my diploma, I jokingly not so jokingly talked about how that 8×11 piece of paper (recycled paper even, this is the pacnorthwest afterall) was the most expensive piece of paper I would ever … More Why my BS is (maybe) bs