HeyJaredPraxis with Charla Yearwood
Praxis is a newsletter at the intersection of mental health, identity, and liberation. Written by Charla Yearwood, LCSW, Praxis explores what it means to live thoughtfully and act with intention in therapy, in community, and in systems that often fail us.
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Why Are We Inheriting Broken? (opens the original)
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If you’ve tried to buy a house recently, then you know the current market is a special kind of hell. Nevertheless, I’ve learned a lot from the experience, and not everything I’ve learned has to do with houses exactly.As my family searched and toured houses this summer, we kept coming across houses that had been owned by the same families for decades. Houses purchased for $100,000 or $200,000 in the late 90s and early 2000s were now asking two and three times what the owners had paid for them.Whi
I Don’t Want to Be Myself at Work (opens the original)
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For years, becoming more myself at work felt like the goal.I’m sure other therapists in private practice will understand that part of what’s most exciting about launching out on your own is the opportunity to break away from traditional professionalism and weave more of our personalities into our work. Where a traditional workplace requires us to dress, behave, and speak a certain way, private practice gives us freedom. Freedom to decide what professionalism looks like for ourselves. Incorporate
What Are We Willing to Absorb? (opens the original)
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We often ask our clients to be curious.We ask them to consider perspectives that challenge the way they understand themselves and the world around them. We ask them to notice when they become defensive and, when they can, resist the urge to immediately explain, justify, or protect themselves from what is being offered. We ask them to sit with discomfort long enough to wonder if there might be something there worth examining.We ask people to do hard things in therapy. And therefore we have an obl
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