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Inherent Dangers of the Job

I’m going to try really hard to keep this from being a post about how seriously bad ass I am.

Really hard.

In the words of Britney: You Drive Me Craaaazy

I wrestled with presenting this story for two reasons:

1) I have not yet written the blog post I mentioned I would be posting.

and..

2) it’s all about boundaries AGAIN!

But then I had a growth moment and realized that if you’re working child and adolescent psych and there are no boundary issues with a patient, that child [...]

Find out what it means to me!

So one of the things I’m really excited about in starting my own business is how I won’t be forced (I know I will to some extent) to work with people for whom I have no respect. I could choose not to work with those people within private practice; I’d just be out money.

Boundaries pt. 2

So I know I just posted about boundaries, but thanks to my friendly workplace, I’ve been given more examples tell you about. Sorry I’m not changing up content. I’m going to post two separate incidences as two posts, mainly because the second one is more of a respect issue than it is a boundaries. Although, [...]

Threats on your life

Part of working in psychiatry is the inevitable toll it will take on yourself. Transference, counter transference, not to mention all of our own defense mechanisms being thrown at us one by one. And not even beginning to touch on the truth coming from the mouths of babes on harsher tongues than our own.
The other [...]

Oh No You DIDN'T!!

So the 30th was Gay Day. Actually it was Doctor’s day, but since 40% of the physician population is also Gay (at my workplace), I think it qualifies.

Conferences

So I went to a MYTHICAL MUSIC THERAPY CONFERENCE.

It was freaking awesome. It also made me realize that probably one of the biggest factors separating me from my kids is my capacity for self care.  I packed my bags and jetsetted to XXXXXXXXXX because I knew I needed to. I knew I needed to recharge, [...]

Balls of Doom

So my kids have resumed being hilarious.

“I’ll put it on my balls and you can come and get it”

Funny vs. Exasperating

You know that you are becoming burnt out when you are thinking through your mind of all the things that you can write about that should be funny, but instead just make you tired and exasperated. I’m actually able to attend a regional conference this year, and I’m very excited about it. I hope that [...]

Practicing

Practice makes perfect.

I will never ever be perfect. I never ever practice. I did an assessment today and actually had written a little song for it the day before. I had all intentions of rehearsing said song prior to the actual assessment, but it just never happened until 10 minutes before.

I had another song that [...]