13 Questions to Ask a Therapist Before Your First Appointment
She’d done her research. Read the bios. Checked the insurance. Scheduled the consultation. And then she spent the entire call answering questions, explaining her situation, trying to give the right impression. She hung up thinking: I still don’t know if this person can actually help me. That’s the problem with how many people approach a […]
Counseling in Lakewood, Colorado: When Life Feels Manageable… But Heavy
There’s a kind of “not okay” that doesn’t always show on the surface. You’re still showing up. The work gets done, the people in your life are cared for, and from the outside, everything looks like it’s holding together. In many ways, it is. And still, somewhere underneath all of that, something feels off. It […]
Christian Counseling in Golden, Colorado: Support for Life, Leadership, and Faith
There are seasons in life where things don’t fall apart all at once… they just slowly get heavier. You’re still showing up. Still leading, still caring for people, still doing what needs to be done. But underneath it, something feels off, like you’ve drifted from the steadiness you used to rely on. And yet, underneath […]
When Strength Drains You: Christian Counseling for Chronic Stress in Colorado
I remember a season in my life when I was home with three young children while also caring full-time for a family member who was dying. It was a season of unbearable weight, more than I could sustain. There was no clean boundary between grief and responsibility, between caregiving and mothering, between holding everyone together […]
From Boardroom To Family Room: When ADHD Strengths Need A New Playbook
She could pivot mid-meeting, redirect a team, and spin clarity out of chaos before most people finished their coffee. Her ability to hyperfocus, read a room, and make fast, intuitive decisions wasn’t just a skill—ADHD was her edge. But at home, that same gift misfired. Dinner conversations derailed into mental to-do lists. Texts pulled her […]
Pretending Is Killing Your Soul
I had a rather interesting conversation with a young man flying back home from a tournament with his baseball team. Through awkward glances as he sat smashed between me and the window seat, I noticed he had a brace on his arm. “So, you’re a baseball player,” I affirmed. “Is that how you hurt your […]
A Refresh on Identity and the Labels We Own
When I was working for a Fortune 1000 investment company, I was one of only a handful of women in leadership. I remember a particular colleague where the relationship always felt slightly off. I couldn’t quite name it, so I brought it up to my boss. She listened, nodded, and finally said, “Well, Jo… people […]
The ADHD Edge: Why Some Executives Burn Out — And Others Burn Bright
I spent the first decade of my career in finance working for a hot mutual fund company that was doubling assets under management and catching the attention of Wall Street as fast as you could open the market and ring the closing bell. It was electric. The pace, the energy, the intellect and creativity of […]