Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 2-24-2021 “I can spend year after year building and cementing a life for myself, and in an instant, walk away from it like it never mattered. But it’s because I know how to admit to myself when something isn’t working for me anymore. My life is wherever I want to takeContinue reading “Knowing when to Quit”
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Always a work in progress
Elisa A Escalante/ LCSW / 2-17-2021 Ever notice that we seem to change drastically in 5-7 year increments? At least, I would hope so. It’s the growth process, meets new people, meets new environments, takes on new challenges, gains wisdom and so on. Change means growth, growth means change. It’s also terrifying and painful atContinue reading “Always a work in progress”
Twenty important lessons I learned as a mental health worker
Elisa A Escalante / LMSW / 2-2-2021 1- Every action, behavior, emotion and thought has a story behind it. No matter how much someone doesn’t make sense, they will always make sense after you hear their story in its entirety 2- we are all entitled to as much pain as we want to handle. 3-Continue reading “Twenty important lessons I learned as a mental health worker”
Misfit
Elisa A. Escalante/ LMSW/ 1-11-2021 Who are you at the party? Are you the life of the party, everyone waits for you as you make your exciting late/ dramatic entrance into the room? Are you the one who comes with someone, so you are not alone? Are you the one in the corner sippingContinue reading “Misfit”
New Year… New… Me?
Elisa A. Escalante/ LMSW/ 1-2-2021 “I need to learn calmness in chaos, because chaos never ends.” -EaE Our traditions are dying, or perhaps changing, or perhaps they do not have the appeal they used to. Slowly, but surely, we see and feel the discomfort of change, and 2020 amplified it to a point noContinue reading “New Year… New… Me?”
ENVY
Elisa A. Escalante/ LMSW/ 12-14-2020 “The hardest thing anyone can ever do in the history of humanity: listen, nod, validate” -EaE We often stop at envy and fail to look at the root cause within ourselves. Meaning we judge, criticize, laugh at others for our own internal comfort/ gain without exploring what puts usContinue reading “ENVY”
Lower the Dosage (Mind shielding)
Elisa A. Escalante/ LMSW/ 11-25-2020 “We do not owe anyone the labor of our hands or minds. It is for sale or trade, not to be stolen by a vampire or zombie.” -EaE There is only so much stress we can allow into our minds and bodies before we start to feel the erosion/Continue reading “Lower the Dosage (Mind shielding)”
Lesson’s from the Elders
Elisa A. Escalante/ LMSW/ 11-20-2020 Parenting education teaches that there are three roles parents and elders must ensure to help in the development of a healthy child: 1- Nurturing (feeding/ loving/ sheltering) 2- Educating (send them to school or home school them) 3- Socializing (making sure they know how to get along and liveContinue reading “Lesson’s from the Elders”
Band-Aids on Stab Wounds
Elisa A. Escalante/ LMSW/ 10-27-2020 “There is a beauty even in pain. Beauty in hard paths and difficult choices. Beauty in a messy life. Character and lessons are built from hard choices and many mistakes.” -EaE I wonder how often humanity will continue this toxic pattern. Where we are so driven toward a destructive lifestyleContinue reading “Band-Aids on Stab Wounds”
Debunk that Stigma
Elisa A. Escalante/ LMSW/ 10-18-2020 Stigma 1- People with anger issues are horrible people and sociopathic/ narcissists A person suffering from anger issues often has ‘a lot of heart’ so to speak. They are quite often good-hearted people that have been hurt/ wounded so deeply due to their lack of boundaries and kindnessContinue reading “Debunk that Stigma”
Functionally Mental 