Reclaiming Complexity: New Perspectives on Counseling and Cognition
Throughout my training as a graduate student, I found my theoretical home in Carl Rogers’ approach to counseling. His emphasis on empathy, The Chaos Machine is required reading
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher is a journalistic tour de force, comprehensive in its coverage of the perils of social media. And there are many. Parasitic Processing and Mindfulness
Argument: Thinking yourself out of anxiety (e.g., with thought replacements or thought stopping) is often limited in its utility in the moment of Who’s to blame for the knot in my chest?
I feel it even now, writing this. I’ve been tied up inside for the past week or so, maybe the past 2 or 3, because of how “busy” and “intentional” I Leadership Fellow & Intern Project Memo 1 - First Qualitative Interviews and Tools
I began interviewing counseling leaders this morning for a qualitative inquiry. I’m conducting the research in relation to my time as a Leadership Reading Log 1
February 1st - 9th, 2025 I’d like to begin tracking what I read, in as loose a manner as possible. I’ll probably go back to provide links to these 2025 Theme: Year of feeling accomplished
My wife, mother-in-law, and I set a theme every year. Not a New Year’s resolution, but more of an orientation or intention that we’d like to carry Bracketing Memo 1 - Researching Problems of Professional Competence (PPC) in Counselor Educators (CEs)
I am reading John W. Creswell’s Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design (2nd edition) as I embark on a qualitative inquiry regarding problems of Goodbye, social media
I have deleted my Instagram and Facebook accounts today. I gained some inspiration from my sister and a friend recently quitting the platforms. I Reading, physical space, and desire
I think it comes in cycles, my desire to read. I have variously picked up and put back down the tablet and ereader, but the versatility - of First Run of 2025 in Topo Cyclone 2s
First run of 2025 wearing some new Topo Cyclone 2s. These things are LIGHT. I love the white color, but that won’t last too long I imagine. I Creating a(nother) new blog
Starting 2025, I’ve decided to try (again) to make another blog/personal website (again). I’ve tried self-hosting WordPress (technical + clunky January '25 - Coffee
Tech Neck and the Process of Physical Therapy
Like many others, for years I have struggled with different types of physical pains that seem unresolvable. My first serious foray into physical December '24 - Goldie in Window
Reflections on depersonalization & derealization
I’m close to finishing my graduate program in counseling. I have grown in many ways throughout this program. However, I have also suffered quite a Counseling and the context of contemplative practice
Counselors are taught to understand that the context (e.g., history) of approaches to therapy are crucial in delivering quality care. So, Bare awareness practices always entail perceptual fabrication
Even bare awareness meditative practices are couched in interpretative frameworks which guide the practitioner’s experience. Among proponents of