Author: Kaitlyn Harrison, MS, LAC There’s a quiet lie a lot of us have been taught: If you’re struggling, you just need to try harder. Try harder to focus. Try harder to stay organized. Try harder to “be normal.” But what if the problem isn’t effort? What if the problem is that you’ve been trying to force yourself into systems that were never built for you in the first place? You’re Not Broken—You’re Mismatched If you're navigating any kind of identity or experiencing symptom

By Carole Showell, DHSc (in progress), LCSW — Understanding the history of Arirang, the Korean students at Howard University, and how cross-cultural meaning-making shapes the way art is interpreted today. Disclaimer: This was written by a human who had to use em dashes for the sake of grammar. It was slightly polished for readability using ChatGPT because your human author tends to be extremely wordy. All referenced sources were manually researched, reviewed, and summarized b

Carole Showell, DHSc (in progress), LCSW - Why cultural context changes how we understand Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Yesterday, I came across a very informative article (linked below) written by Dr. Sarah Abedi that demonstrates the importance of understanding the origin and development of commonly used clinical frameworks. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a structured psychological theory for understanding the relationship between an individual's needs and their capacity fo

By Kenneth L. Bourne Jr., LSW, Founder Bourne Anew - A Practice Framework For Helping Professionals Most of us want to help people. We want to be good therapists, good neighbors, good educators, good humans. We read the books. We take the trainings. We learn the language. We try to stay informed, self-aware, and trauma-informed. And still, many of us quietly wonder: Why isn’t this landing? Why does this feel harder than it should? Why do I feel like I’m missing something impo

For my current project, I'm pulling clips from my virtual training, which is ongoing right now, so I can use them in my at-home study course material. I wanted to share with y'all a sequence of clips that I think are really cool and informative to watch. Half of the video clips depict me presenting information to my training participants. In one set of clips, I'm experiencing an acute neuroinflammatory flare up. I recall that I taught my DBT Skills group in the morning, using

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