Lisa Long, LPC/MHSP, NCC

That moment when your PhD brain 🧠 starts putting it all together and even the stats are making sense is 👩🏼‍🍳😘 level priceless 🤌🏼 #phdlife #phdsky #dissertation #counselored #therapistsky

Revision submitted. Now I wait to hear if I move to defense. 🤞🏼In the meantime, here comes 40 hours of distilling themes from interviews for a qualitative project separate from my dissertation study. Yeehaw 🤠

michael scott is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face . ALT: michael scott is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .

Has it been 4 yrs yet?

Working on a PhD is an endless cycle of believing “I’ll feel better when I get (*insert multi-layered, multidimensional, multi-step process) done,” only to get there and not feel any better because the stack of exhaustive and complicated work just keeps coming 💆🏼‍♀️

Fully overloaded 🫣

Had a full clinical day today.
It is sacred work to witness another human’s internal story—grief, pain, and gladness—to hold it with tender respect and loving-kindness. To help them light their path through the darkest night to find their way home to their heart, their voice, their agency. 💗

Brilliant!

It’s so hard trying to balance how much news I consume to protect my own mental health. I can’t even count the times my body has felt utterly numb and literally wobbly from one more piece of disturbing news and it’s only day two. WTAF

Thanks @layla victoria! His mountaintop speech echos in my soul. 🫶🏼 💙

And that’s what an appropriate response looks like

Spent the day preparing a conference proposal. I would love to report that as a result I feel super motivated. But, not yet. I’m trying to healthy distract from my big feels about tomorrow and what follows. What are y’all doing to cope? Is it working?

Thanks, Scrappy!

I’m grateful for this space! My body is shuffling through feelings like an emotional Rolodex. These last two months have been so. much. Personally, academically, socially, and politically. I’m glad to be here with you, though. 💗✊🏼👊🏼