Well this photo captures the tone of the first 12 days.

Diversity dies in gray wash. As does leadership, compassion, integrity, stability, respect, and emotional maturity, & more.

😞💔😠😡🤬

Yet we won’t let that happen. Not on our watch. 💙🦋🙋‍♀️✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿️⚖️💛

#therapistsky
#therapistconnect

A client who is a fellow therapist texted me this today. It’s like she knows me and I know her. 💛
We ride at dawn. 💙
📚🎬🦋

#therapistsky
#therapistsconnect

First nonfiction non-therapy-related book of the year. Lovely One by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Taking back this horrendous week of hatred. Whose with me? 💙📚 #therapysky #therapistsky 🦋💛⚖️✊

Wearing my Harris for President tshirt today - and Team Harris Walz tshirt this weekend - also brought out a fav mug for daily use for the next 4 years. Words to live by. 💙🦋✊

Leaving my first day in the office after 1st therapy sessions since holidays, I came across this. Seems about right.

#newyear #2025 #SOS 🙀#seemsaboutright #day2
#andsoitbegins #arlingtonva
#werideatdawn 💙 #therapistsky

Sometimes what comes up in the day’s therapy sessions is actually foretold in the quote of the day - if you only had taken a look at it.

#therapysky #therapy #therapists #mentalhealth #rebel

Made it to Bull Run Festival of Lights🎄🎅🎄🤶🎄

Holiday bear 🧸 prizes at Duck Pond game. Check out the dates on the paws. 🤣or 😳? Both?

2021? 2002! Some parents there weren’t even born then.

Kids deserve better.

But I did appreciate the chuckle.

#northernvirginia #manassasva
#arlingtonva

Happy Caturday from Zelda and Clementine!

#caturday #cats 😻

You know when the older sibling 🐈 just gives that look of srsly mom? Zelda has perfected it. Clementine 🐈 couldn’t care less. She’s gonna watch CatTv her way.

As promised - a photo of me visiting my dad and bro for Thanksgiving. Turkey free - long story - and blissfully drama free. Hope ya’ll found a respite and not a rumble at your holiday gathering.

Therapist life.
Just another Wednesday morning mid-session with cat co-therapist #2 Clementine. 😻

Cat co-therapist #1 Zelda is busy treatment planning - aka napping.

Not being shy myself. Just cat focused today. 🤣 I’ll eventually share a pic of me other when I was 8 years old.

Last month I took up knitting again as a stress reliever. All the kids books show cats making off with balls of yarn - not the needle. My Zelda wants total control as her little face adorably shows. TBD if she’s acquired a deadly weapon or her version of teddy bear.

Saw this a few days ago and thought - imagine my girls with therapist mom me around the election, well, let’s face since around the 2016 election. Two cats lighting a banana flambée afire?

What? What Mom? We‘re just sitting here minding our own business. Don’t pay attention to the crazy eyes. - Clementine and Zelda

When the Freudian slip slips out of the clinician, or at least the therapist’s proofreader.

This one is a little too perfect. 🤣

@tbellerina.bsky.social yep, I’m a day behind my tennis viewing. Here’s some proof that sometimes live captioning is gold…

I mean, I’d def watch! 🤣🤣🤣🎾🎾🎾🎾💃💃💃

Done. Zelda says feel better - in between clearly respecting the anti-scratch tape.

@tbellerina.bsky.social What? Cats need good lumbar support too. - Therapy cat Zelda