Sometimes when we open our mouths to fight a cause, we are more annoying than we are impactful. We often jump on bandwagons without receiving context or knowing why we are doing a certain thing. Everything is not a cause! We sometimes protest too much. 

“Yes, I am a counselor, but at times like these, when someone was hurting silently, and they were family and therefore ‘under my care,’ but not in ways in which I am trained to care, I come to a standstill.”

As we are suffering through things, we may not believe there is light at the end of the tunnel, but the truth of the matter is that we often emerge on the other side of trouble better and stronger for having persevered through it. There is a lesson to be learned somewhere in our hardships if we are truly listening — actively listening — and ready to hear it.

Given where we have been, I know without a doubt that we are on an upward trajectory and destined for transformative justice. Counselors united! Ready to #ShakeItUp? Well, join me in making a difference because I am tapping you in. We are the game changers, so tap someone else in and begin the metamorphosis.

In the spirit of resilience, as we pivot out of the darkness and into the light, everything is possible. The sky is no longer the limit.  On Feb. 18, a NASA helicopter named Ingenuity, attached to a rover named Perseverance, landed in the Jezero crater on Mars. On April 19, Ingenuity took its first of…continue reading