Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 03-01-2026 At least once a month I receive another burnt out client with a goal to increase their productivity. This is obviously counter productive, but they are in denial. Some of the work ahead includes helping them learn to accept and surrender to their new reality. The reality being that theyContinue reading “Surrender”
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But Why?
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 4-20-2025 Our mind will go to places that defy the laws of radical acceptance, & life itself. The reason that I ‘why’ my patients, and sometimes my friends to death, is because the mind is reaching for every answer to every possible scenario. Or the mind is fixated on sticking withContinue reading “But Why?”
No Faith
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 07-20-2023 “But then again, I have a soul. That extends beyond this vision and flesh. That reaches up; can feel the sky. The world, spirit, and Universe enmesh.” -EaE I was six years old when I first went to Catholic school in Houston, TX. The jumper uniforms, the church, the strictContinue reading “No Faith”
Functionally Mental 