Hi there, I’m Mandy.
I wanted to share with you why I do what I do…essentially why I became a therapist. If you are thinking about sharing some of your stuff with me, then I think I can share some of mine with you. There’s usually a reason we therapists become; well therapists, and, for me, it happened after going through my divorce. You see, I come from a family that loved and cared for one another, we didn’t hurt one another. My dad was the best husband to my mom, and the best dad a girl could ask for. So for my married life to be just the opposite of this…well it turned my world upside down. I felt lost, alone, abandoned, confused….really, really confused. After my divorce, I was trying to figure out how to create a new life. What would that life look like? And, I was grieving. I had to figure all of this out…this “new normal.” What was my plan, who am I, what do I do now? (just a tidbit of the thousands of questions that were going through my mind). Fast forward, I finally figured it out…with a few mistakes along the way. After coming out on the other side of my divorce, I realized I wanted to help people navigate through life. Life never goes as we planned, thank God…because if my life went the way I had planned it… I wouldn’t be who I am today.
Maybe some of this resonates with you, maybe not. But I do know, that regardless of what life throws at you, you will be ok. It may be not the way you want it, the way you thought it would be, or the way you planned it…but you will be ok.