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Dear Colleagues,
While we often work with adolescent and emerging adult clients who are struggling with significant mental health challenges, some of these same individuals are blessed with the gift of being able to capture and express their emotions through the arts. As therapists, we learn the theory, the application, and the psychotherapeutic skills necessary to guide people to the path of emotional regulation and a life worth living, but we often have not experienced these feelings from the interior landscape that our clients do. This new series, "Voices From The Heart" is our invitation to former clients to share some of their most powerful expressions of what it feels like to walk in their shoes. We all know the feeling of being impacted by a work of art that needs no elaboration. Welcome to "Voices From The Heart."
The criteria for publication of works in this series is as follows:
The chatter.
Procrastinate
Lazy
Feeling so stupid
Always tired, not getting enough sleep
Not having a good routine schedule for the weeks ahead
Not having meal plans for week
Not going to the gym and strength training 4-5x a week
I do not know how to study
No time management
No clue who I am to be honest (EX: not having/knowing any interests of mine nor hobbies)
I feel like such a bland person (EX: my room doesn’t speak/ reflect anything about me, tied back to me not really knowing what I like or love I am)
Feeling unfulfilled and boring (more of a materialistic way, EX: not having enough stuff I would want or whatever)
Still stalking people that had a significant impact on me in the past
Nostalgia- I feel so many things, even from the smell of the fall breeze, feeling vibes of some sort I don’t know)
Do not really speak with grandparents
Always thinking about my weight/appearance
Being sensitive and asking for reassurance
Caring so much about what other
Parents relationship
Not having any friends
Not knowing what I want to be when I grow up, feeling so eager to
learn, but thinking I’m too dumb to learn anything
No idea what
subjects I like
Biggest question for myself: will I succeed in this lifetime and make an impact on the world? Will I have a good career I love by eventually knowing my true self? Will I live up to my immigrant parents?
