Welcome 2021 and on to new pursuits! I have decided to add a new feather to my cap. Next month, I will be joining the adjunct faculty in the Human Services Department at Palm Beach State College. I have jokingly asked my family to call me “Professor” from now on and warned those who doContinue reading “Call Me Professor”
Author Archives: Jillian Lepera
Reframing 2020
Today marks 12 days to the end of the year 2020. There are multiple perspectives I have heard others hold on to as they anticipate this marker. “Wow, what a year!” “I cannot wait for this year to be over,” “2021 HAS to be better.” While we all have our own version of a hardshipContinue reading “Reframing 2020”
A Selfless Girl’s Journey to Becoming a Therapist…
A consistent, crisp fall breeze casts aside the usual humidity of a South Florida suburb, beckoning an air of growth and change along with it. It’s Thanksgiving morning 1995 and a six-year-old girl with straight bangs of blonde meets two sisters, the new next door neighbors, in her cul de sac. She didn’t know atContinue reading “A Selfless Girl’s Journey to Becoming a Therapist…”
Make “You Time” Why Therapy?
The brain serves as the hub and command center for our functioning. We are told to “make time for ourselves” but when will we incorporate the psyche onto our personal Rx pad?