Well Hello.
Apparently I'm on the once a year livejournal posting program.
This past year has taken a turn for the better in many ways.
I am quite content and growing more from the inside out every day.
No there is no man.
No there is no fabulous car or vacation or stuff or parties.
There's just me.
And me truly knowing me and feeling me.
I graduated with my BS in Health Education last year and had been working as an assistant with a substance abuse recovery facility until back to school in august for my masters program in counseling.
I switched working there to part time since the facility was in baton rouge, and school/home in hammond, as well as taking up a graduate assistantship with the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at school, which is the program I got my BS in.
I'm pursing a M.Ed. in Community Counseling with Substance Abuse Counseling certification. I keep battling with myself over school counseling or community counseling but I really think I'm gonna stick with where I am. However, it is definitely not that I want to stick with substance abuse counseling it is strictly a certification that I wish was more with addictions in general, which they do not have in LA, but still gives me the advantage to work in areas such as eating disorders as well.
Except, if we choose concentrations such as SA (substance abuse) or school counseling (SC) we have to do our internships in those settings as well. I sincerely do not want to do my internship in a substance abuse facility around here, I just don't.
Therefore, I'm considering dropping the Substance Abuse certification, and taking up the Play Therapy certification in order to give me an advantage with children and adolescents.
For some reason I really think I would like to intern with Child Advocacy Services (CAS) and community counseling with play therapy would be great for that. That is definitely not to say I would no get the substance abuse or addictions certification later on because I definitely will. But after I graduate.
I am meeting with someone from CAS for coffee tomorrow afternoon and should soon start volunteering there. I am also about to start volunteering with either the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LAFASA) or Tri Parish Victims Assistance/Rape Crisis Programs. I'm thinking it's gonna be CAS and LAFASA which should only be a few hours each a week.
In case you have noticed I have a huge desire to work with abuse, trauma, and victimization, mainly children and women, which very often leads to the vicious cycle of abuse, eating disorders, and/or substance abuse.
crazy good times.
Likewise, I am about to move out of my shithole one bedroom apartment and into a very nice 2 bedroom with a new friend/fellow grad student in community counseling with SA. She's great, we have a lot in common. Her personality type according to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is actually ENFP and I'm an INFP. Spoken like a true counselor ed grad student.
Very rare to have such similar personalities. She's been through her own hard shit as well, a bit of total life changing chaos just 8 months ago. I admire her.
Ran into an ex boyfriend this morning. Irony indeed.
I can't wait to move. But ugh. Packing.
That is my "crazy" life settling down into its own in a wrap.
Ta ta.
This past year has taken a turn for the better in many ways.
I am quite content and growing more from the inside out every day.
No there is no man.
No there is no fabulous car or vacation or stuff or parties.
There's just me.
And me truly knowing me and feeling me.
I graduated with my BS in Health Education last year and had been working as an assistant with a substance abuse recovery facility until back to school in august for my masters program in counseling.
I switched working there to part time since the facility was in baton rouge, and school/home in hammond, as well as taking up a graduate assistantship with the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at school, which is the program I got my BS in.
I'm pursing a M.Ed. in Community Counseling with Substance Abuse Counseling certification. I keep battling with myself over school counseling or community counseling but I really think I'm gonna stick with where I am. However, it is definitely not that I want to stick with substance abuse counseling it is strictly a certification that I wish was more with addictions in general, which they do not have in LA, but still gives me the advantage to work in areas such as eating disorders as well.
Except, if we choose concentrations such as SA (substance abuse) or school counseling (SC) we have to do our internships in those settings as well. I sincerely do not want to do my internship in a substance abuse facility around here, I just don't.
Therefore, I'm considering dropping the Substance Abuse certification, and taking up the Play Therapy certification in order to give me an advantage with children and adolescents.
For some reason I really think I would like to intern with Child Advocacy Services (CAS) and community counseling with play therapy would be great for that. That is definitely not to say I would no get the substance abuse or addictions certification later on because I definitely will. But after I graduate.
I am meeting with someone from CAS for coffee tomorrow afternoon and should soon start volunteering there. I am also about to start volunteering with either the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LAFASA) or Tri Parish Victims Assistance/Rape Crisis Programs. I'm thinking it's gonna be CAS and LAFASA which should only be a few hours each a week.
In case you have noticed I have a huge desire to work with abuse, trauma, and victimization, mainly children and women, which very often leads to the vicious cycle of abuse, eating disorders, and/or substance abuse.
crazy good times.
Likewise, I am about to move out of my shithole one bedroom apartment and into a very nice 2 bedroom with a new friend/fellow grad student in community counseling with SA. She's great, we have a lot in common. Her personality type according to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is actually ENFP and I'm an INFP. Spoken like a true counselor ed grad student.
Very rare to have such similar personalities. She's been through her own hard shit as well, a bit of total life changing chaos just 8 months ago. I admire her.
Ran into an ex boyfriend this morning. Irony indeed.
I can't wait to move. But ugh. Packing.
That is my "crazy" life settling down into its own in a wrap.
Ta ta.