As many, and what I assume some of my followers know I am actively in the medical field, specifically, mental health. I have always believed in mental health, it was never a taboo topic for me, and I have always been fascinated with why people do what they do/how the brain works. 

Consequently, I found solitude in poetry when I was going through some of the most challenging mental health crisis's that I didn't know how to manage or even how to feel. Poetry gave me a space to put all my thoughts and feelings and to feel them safely. I started writing in the 3rd grade. Thanks to my dad (the best dad although I am biased), for saving everything I have ever made, created, and wrote. I wish I was kidding, you know those notes you write as a young kid thinking you are in love? Yea, my dad kept them...all. So, he had kept a lot of my poems I wrote as a kid. Looking back on them it is known that poetry let me... feel.

My thought here is that, my role in therapy has always been constant even as a small kid. My next thought was, how many people out there used a childhood habit to their profession? I know when I was in Kindergarten that I wanted to be a Vet, then brain surgeon (Thanks Grey's Anatomy), and then just a doctor, and now... that dream of being a therapist is going to be checked off my to do list. Surly I am not the only one who sees this weird correlation.

All my love,

Shay