World Mental Health Day: What Are You Choosing to Grow?
“What we focus on the longest grows the strongest.” October 10 is World Mental Health Day, what are you focusing on? What if one of the most empowering tools for your mental wellness was to begin designing your future—to give yourself permission to dream about how you would LOVE your life to look? You were […]
Suicide Prevention Starts Before a Crisis: The Role of Emotional Literacy, Hope and Connection
Watch My Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Message September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and this year I find myself thinking about one word in particular: Prevention. For more than 30 years, I have worked in the mental health field, listening to and supporting individuals and families, teaching professionals, and helping people develop skills to better […]
Do you see August as another New Year?
For many clinicians, August feels like a second New Year. The slower pace of summer is behind us. Schedules begin to fill, clients return from vacations, and before we know it, we find ourselves doing what we’ve always done. Days become busy, weeks go by quickly, and it’s easy to slip into cruise control. Before […]
Freedom Begins Within
As we celebrate 250 years as a nation, I’ve been reflecting on another kind of freedom—one that no one can give us and no one can take away: the freedom to let go of resentment and move forward with greater peace and purpose. As clinicians, we know this isn’t just something we teach; it’s something […]
Three Daily Wellness Practices for Mental Health Professionals on the Journey to Triumph, Not Burnout
Mental health professionals spend their days regulating others. We hold trauma. We witness despair. We guide resilience. And yet — who is regulating us? Insight alone does not sustain a clinician. Intention does not prevent burnout. What preserves longevity in this field is daily, deliberate nervous system recalibration. If we are going to lead others […]
The Outer World Is Not the Cause — It’s the Mirror
A few weeks ago, a client walked into my office frustrated and defeated. He sat down, sighed, and said, “Beatriz, everything is against me — my boss, my wife, the holidays are coming, the traffic… I just can’t catch a break.” I listened quietly and then asked, “If everything outside of you is the problem, […]