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☀️ When you feel better, you do better: collective trauma recovery, play, & mental health
Created the at the University of Cambridge
Licensed mental health therapist (LMHC)
📍Denver, Co

It’s autumn TBR time! 📚🍂Looking forward to snuggling into some new releases of non-fiction that fit right at the interse...
01/10/2026

It’s autumn TBR time! 📚🍂

Looking forward to snuggling into some new releases of non-fiction that fit right at the intersection of therapist and researcher with some highlights, tabs, and a notebook as well as a fiction book I’ve had on my list for a couple years now. ☕️✨🧺

Each read is one closer to meeting my goal of 1,000 books by the end of 2027 (1,000 books in 10 years, because why not)!

What books are you excited to read this season?? 🍁

I’m not ashamed to admit the cover drew me in for autumn vibes first, and then I read the blurb: scientific study, children’s literature as thoughtfully created, and addressing stories as meaningful ways through the literary crisis. Sign me up. Not only do I want to get my children’s book published someday, but I also believe in researchers needing to study storytelling and compelling ways to share our work.

This book immediately made me think about how awkward and anxious people felt beginning to reconnect after pandemic lockdowns. The social media posts about replaying social interactions and the confusion people felt after they overshared or the surprise of why that even came out of their mouths. It’s something else I think researchers could learn to do better, and some therapists as well, figure out the ‘why’ behind sharing and the science behind what makes it useful beyond connection.

Magic school without an author on a rampage to do harm, and the book addresses immigration wounds alongside spooky season animals like a werewolf? Sign me up. I will always turn to fiction as an avenue to explore the feelings around experiences that aren’t mine, and I especially love young adult / middle grade novels because they don’t shy away from the intensity of the feelings.

I’ve been learning Spanish for about seven months now, so eventually I can offer therapy sessions in Spanish, and there’s so much to learn beyond the language in order to be a responsible therapist. This includes learning what topics could be hard for teens, families, and caregivers to talk about in therapy or the phrases that they use to stop the conversation in their homes.

Another book that might serve scientists and therapists different, but I

I always feel the most emotionally connected to my Irish ancestry on seasonal transition days like this autumn equinox. ...
22/09/2026

I always feel the most emotionally connected to my Irish ancestry on seasonal transition days like this autumn equinox.

The calendar that the Celtics of history used starts the new year on 1 August and marked today, the autumn equinox, as the ‘second harvest’, a sort of last chance to gather what you grew and figure out how to store it before the frost comes and the darkness grows up around you for the upcoming months.

While I can appreciate their sort of ‘mid-autumn’ celebration of today based on the information they had to make sense of their environment and world, I quite like combining the start of autumn with the symbolism and metaphors of their tradition.

What is there to reap from what was planted this year?

Who can I celebrate the harvest with?

What was not tended to enough?

Do I have overflow of anything to share with others?

What was harder to sow than I imagined?

How can I preserve what grew to last?

What unexpected thing(s)/event(s) disrupted what was growing?

What do I not have enough reserves of that I need?

Most of us don’t have plants to gather from these days, but think about your goals, your wishes, your dreams, your plans, your lists, your boundaries.

Without rushing to prepare for winter or set your sights on the upcoming year, what can be learned from the season that just passed? What are you wanting to focus on for this upcoming season?

For me, today, I’ll be eating my seasonal produce, rereading some of my favorites from John O’Donohue, and journaling my answers to some of these questions above.

📸 circa 2018 because that vibe just feels right for this autumn 🍂

20/09/2026

🇬🇧: My first dream in Spanish, and while short, the insight into what I’m worried about in learning a second language for therapy was clear 😅 book learning and what words people use day-to-day can be different, even if technically correct.

🇲🇽: Mi primer sueño en español, y aunque breve, me dejó muy clara la idea de lo que me preocupa al aprender un segundo idioma para terapia 😅. El aprendizaje en los libros y las palabras que la gente usa a diario pueden ser diferentes, incluso si son técnicamente correctas.

🇬🇧: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the education system - from elementary through post graduate - is not des...
18/09/2026

🇬🇧: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the education system - from elementary through post graduate - is not designed with student / academic / researcher mental health in mind. It is not thoughtful towards our creativity, our human needs for connection and collaboration, for play. And instead it focuses on competition, distrust, productivity, and business. Which is to say, if you are struggling to feel whole, to feel human, to feel seen and valued, you are not alone in these feelings in a system designed to not support that.

🇲🇽: Lo he dicho antes y lo diré de nuevo: el sistema educativo —desde la educación primaria hasta el posgrado— no está diseñado teniendo en cuenta la salud mental de estudiantes, académicos e investigadores. No tiene en cuenta nuestra creatividad, nuestras necesidades humanas de conexión y colaboración, ni el juego. En cambio, se centra en la competencia, la desconfianza, la productividad y la lógica empresarial. Dicho de otro modo: si te cuesta sentirte pleno, sentirte humano o sentirte visto y valorado, no estás solo en esto; son sentimientos comprensibles dentro de un sistema diseñado precisamente para no fomentar esas cosas.

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