Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 01-21-2025 “When you don’t want it anymore, but you don’t know anything else. It’s a loop of hell that consumes you. When you free yourself, you strip away the torture, but you strip away your identity along with it.” -EaE Thirteen months ago I had my more recent break up. IContinue reading “The only other thing is Nothing”
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Vet Rise
10-6-2024 Interviewer: Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ Air Force (OEF) Veteran/ Martial artist/ Author Interviewee: Juan Perez/ USMC (OEF) Veteran/ Chicago PD/ Entrepreneur; The Veteran online coaching program; The Vet Rise academy/ The Vet Rise Podcast Intro: Juan Perez stood out to me initially on Instagram and TikTok. I couldn’t help but notice that his videosContinue reading “Vet Rise”
Trauma Puzzles Pieced Together
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 7-14-2024 My trauma puzzle poems take you through my life from the ages of 3 y/o to roughly 22 years old. It’s the perspective of what I witnessed, felt and thought about through the majority of my childhood traumas. I keep an element of mystery because 1- it’s not always aboutContinue reading “Trauma Puzzles Pieced Together”
When the Patients Gave me Therapy
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 08-30-2023 “There are many different types of strength in this world; mental fortitude is a tremendous one. The reality is, you cannot measure someone’s mental fortitude, because you will never be in their mind to feel how much they are suffering through.” -EaE I’ve had this amazing ability to numb outContinue reading “When the Patients Gave me Therapy”
Self Destructiveness Cont…
(Part 2- Reducing Self destructive tendencies) Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 5-11-2022 Following up from the last blog post, you may have been able to gain some qualitative findings on your own self destructive tendencies. Some may have been very obvious, and other tendencies may have come at a bit more of a surprise toContinue reading “Self Destructiveness Cont…”
Mental Health Internet “Experts” Part 2
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 4-10-2022 After I published mental health experts, I immediately knew that I would need to do a part two. I had a great reviews, and also my blog could be centered around this alone. Because the Internet is throwing out horrible mental health advice at a pace that cannot be controlled.Continue reading “Mental Health Internet “Experts” Part 2”
The Things I took for Granted
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 11-24-2021 I turned 32 recently (September 12th). Feeling older, yet luckier. A little more fatigued, but somehow there’s more energy. Gratitude is not something I started to practice until I hit my early thirties, and I’m not shocked. It takes some wisdom. It takes a little bit of aging because withContinue reading “The Things I took for Granted”
Why Stay?
Elisa Escalante/ LCSW/ 10-16-2021 “Telling an abused, abandoned, neglected and traumatized child to “self love” is like telling a fish to breathe oxygen.” -EaE Naturally, as life and traumas unfold, I will have more experience and therefore, more to talk about. The subjects and topics add up with age and, hopefully, added wisdom. I foundContinue reading “Why Stay?”
Invisible Heroes
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 7-22-2021 “It is a dark, painful and torturous path to take. And we do not do it for reward, we do it because it is right.” -EaE Just as invisible and unseen as the mental health world is, so is that of the work that is done to alleviate or cureContinue reading “Invisible Heroes”
Judge less, Listen more
Elisa A Escalante/ LCSW/ 7-4-2021 “You can’t say that you truly value diversity, if you do not value the diversity of the human mind. And yes, this also means the differences in our world views.” -EaE Every now and then, a therapist is tasked with the nerve-racking assignment of giving therapy to… another therapist. Yes,Continue reading “Judge less, Listen more”
Functionally Mental 