Fifteen Years: Resolve Update
Hello, gentle readers. Since last we spoke, a lot has happened—a global pandemic, a Master’s degree, a career change, and more loss and grief than I care to recount. The pandemic, as it did for so many of us, put everything on pause, including Resolve . I thought the lockdowns would lead to me having more time and space to finish the book. It did not. But it did force me to reflect on what I really wanted. The end of that journey led me to working as a psychotherapist in partial hospitalization for youth and adolescents who are survivors of trauma and living with severe mental illnesses. To get here, I upended my entire life at nearly 40 years old to go back to graduate school. My new profession (to do it the way I want to) requires numerous licensure exams, trainings, certifications, consultation hours, and supervisory responsibilities. This has left little time or energy to devote to my writing since 2020 when I first applied for grad school. But 2025 makes fifteen years since I publ...
