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therapy poem 3: macho

November 18, 2022 by Amber

I dread moments when clients make me a topic preferring to listen, to walk along side but he said “you’re the only woman I know who acts the way I think a woman should act you know kind and caring” – for a moment I forgot that I was at work that I was a […]

Posted in Poetry | Tagged femininity, humanity, masculinity, therapy

Therapy Poem 14: attempt

November 18, 2022 by Amber

all my attempts feel insignificant incomplete when I get the call about your attempt to complete

Posted in Poetry | Tagged compassion, suffering, therapist, therapy

wizard vs therapist (or, therapy poem 4)

January 21, 2022 by Amber

when I was a child I wished I was a wizard it took a long time for me to realize humans cannot be trusted with magic greedy, short-sighted, violent I became a therapist instead (after a brief detour) working with those same humans vulnerable, well-meaning, overwhelmed when they say, “I need to process trauma” or […]

Posted in Poetry | Tagged compassion, limitations, no cake to eat or keep, people, therapist, therapy

Therapy Poem 1

July 29, 2021 by Amber

you have 167 hours every week to build yourself up or tear yourself down (or be torn down by others) to work and rest and play and socialize and isolate and change to despair and rejoice and remember . we get 1 hour most weeks to process everything you are and were and want and […]

Posted in Poetry | Tagged "in the end only kindness matters", clients, limitations, patients, therapist, therapy

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“What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?”
-MLKJ, Strength to Love

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