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Musings and photos from a traveling therapist
Navigating the road of life is hard!
That’s why Mental Health Mail offers inspiring insights, journaling prompts, meditations, free guides, and even some humor, as you drive forward on your healing journey.
“Brinn, you have a knack for articulating complex concepts into practical, easy to understand (and relate to) processes.”
Where Are You Going?
In 2 days, I’m jetting off for an Andean adventure in Peru. In a few months I'll be lounging in Italy, and maybe working in Hawaii in between. We're likely heading south for the winter and in the past 3 months, traveled through 12 different states.
Writing Isn't Easy
Writing ANY book is hard. Writing MY book is hard. It’s hard because I don’t want to hurt people. I don’t want to trigger people. I don’t want my story, my truth, my reality to negatively impact others. But it will. It’s going to. It HAS to.
For The Love of Community
After being on the road the last 2 months, I've come to miss a lot of things from home. While #vanlife is beautiful and exciting, it can be challenging and down right hard sometimes!
Changes on the Horizon
Over the past year I’ve been seeing, on average, 28 therapy clients per week. Through a pandemic, telehealth, protests, 2 rounds of fires, moving and caretaking for my grandmother, and the result, much like everyone else, was BURN OUT.
Thanks, Grandma, I love you
In January last year I felt the itch to move out of my apartment.
I wanted something new, a change, and was looking for different places to live in midtown. The same day I was offered a lease on a new place, my grandmother called and asked me to stay with her for a couple days while she got out the hospital after hip surgery. She was 95 at the time and had lived alone for over 32 years.
Body Image Blues Part 2
As a way to help heal my younger-self who dealt with a lot of body image blues, I decided to write a letter from the perspective of my teenage self. I have named her, and she wrote a letter to me.
Body Image Blues
Lately, I have been feeling shame, embarrassment, sadness, and grief for the part of myself that hates my body. Yes, I have major Body Image Blues.
One of My Passions
I am obsessed with resources. Without them, we wouldn’t have any support, help, knowledge, healing, understanding. We all need resources.
15 Things I have Learning from 15 Years of Running.
15 things I have learned from 15 years of running.
Where Do You Go When You're Triggered?
Where do you go when you get triggered? How do deep feelings show up in your life? Do you get sad? Do you shut down and feel numb? Do you feel rage in the depths of soul? Do you get scared or frightened? Do you feel like you don’t belong and that nobody will ever understand?
Let's Talk about Talking: Part III
In the last two blog posts, Let’s Talk about Talking Parts I & II, we discussed a variety of nuanced components of communication that are important to understand for clear expression. Now, we will walk through a hands-on model to use when expressing yourself to someone else.
Let's Talk about Talking: Part II
I learned, we all tell ourselves stories, in our head, that are often not true. So keep asking yourself, “What is the story I am telling myself?” and watch how seamlessly your awareness of yourself, your thoughts and your emotions start to shift.
Let's Talk about Talking: Part 1
Communication. We chat with checker at the grocery store, we discuss our life with our best friend, we connect with our partner, we teach our children, we email our boss and we form new relationships with clients. In a way, communication is life. So why do so many people feel like they don’t know how to do it?!
Alone Time
When I heard my roommate was leaving on a 4 day trip I looked forward to her departure with bated breath. It had been a long time since I was able to hang out in my own home, listening to silence, not using my voice and just being me.
Balloons In Your Backpack
There are other objects in your backpack that do take up space, but they are light and airy like colorful, happy balloons. These balloons are collected throughout life based on positive experiences. Do not discount the value of these balloons as these are the most important items you possess; they lift you up and out of the shadows of the heavy boulders and help carry you through life.
Rocks in Your Backpacks
Imagine that we’re all born with a backpack on. Not your typical Jansport or your cute fashionable mini backpack, but an invisible backpack.