When you’re deep in the work it can hurt not knowing where to grow.

This has got to be the biggest problem I faced in my mental health career.

I felt ineffective, incompetent, worse than all that I felt like I was letting people down who were relying on me.

The system around me seemed to whisper ‘that’s how things are, it’s hard, you’ll get used to it’.

This drove me lowkey crazy and lit a fire in my belly that’s been raging ever since.

Why do we accept this lack of clarity and precision when it comes to improving our ability to listen?

As a species we’ve figured out how to use lasers to make chips, manipulating aspects at nanoscale.

Someone walked on the moon like eighty years ago.

Yet I have to struggle through the confusion of trying to unpick my own bias from my own experience and throw darts blindfolded to figure out how, where and why I went wrong.

Well… Obviously I figured out a system that helped over time, but god it hurt to do so.

There’s absolutely no way I would have made it this far without guidance from people with better perspectives than mine.

How many incredibly empathic and sensitive people left mental health work because they thought they weren’t cut out for it, when really they just didn’t have the right systems to support them?