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”
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Turtle Power (Staying fit through Mental health struggles)
Interviewer: Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ BJJ practitioner/ Author/ AF Veteran Interviewee: Dalton Seafler/ Personal Trainer/ Nutritionist/ Life Coach/ BJJ Practitioner 6-12-2024 Elisa: One of the first things that stood out and led me to want to tune into your Instagram stories is those morning affirmations you do. Very positive and motivating. When I wake up,Continue reading “Turtle Power (Staying fit through Mental health struggles)”
Sob Stories
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 08-05-2023 “I have felt pain without religion, distraction, drugs or love.” -EaE There was a time (that I briefly experienced as a young girl in the 1990’s and a teen in the 2000’s) where sob stories were taboo. Talking about sad things and sad feelings was forbiddin and frowned upon. PovertyContinue reading “Sob Stories”
Pathological
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 07-25-2023 “Peace and content are not ways in which we settle. They are the goals after a life of horror and trauma. I don’t want to be high, I want to be steady.” -EaE Now a days, I talk to my clients about ‘Tornado people”. The types of people that suckContinue reading “Pathological”
Hypocritical Therapist
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 06-22-2023 “You should know better, you are a therapist….” “I want my therapist to not have flaws because I want to trust that they can guide me right.” “You’re not mentally ill though!” “How are you going to help someone when you have the same problem?” Oh… if I had aContinue reading “Hypocritical Therapist”
Battle of the Sexes
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 6-14-2023 “Women are more than sex objects and house maids, just as men are more than an ATM or a gift dispenser.” -EaE In the past decade or so we have seen an influx on research statistics regarding the ‘death of the nuclear family’ so to speak. Some common findings thatContinue reading “Battle of the Sexes”
Emotional Interpretation & Guidance
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 12-28-2022 In many cases, I do find that I need to go ‘back to the basics’ with clients. Or, teach them something new, something they should have known but never knew. The common perception many societies have is that there are ‘good emotions’, and ‘bad emotions’. The good ones you canContinue reading “Emotional Interpretation & Guidance”
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?”
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”
A Clinicians Poem
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 6-21-2021 They say they can tell me anything. And they mean it, they tell me everything. Then I care, but then don’t care, I’ve been living in a nightmare. It’s a gift and a curse I say, they trust me, how did it get this way? From hearing secrets on theContinue reading “A Clinicians Poem”
Functionally Mental 