Changing Direction

 5/19/2021

It has been quite some time since I have written in my blog. I honestly forgot about it for quite a while. I have had a lot of changes in life since I last wrote and I want to take the time to change the direction of this format. In 2017 I acquired my MS Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree and state licensure. Since that time I have been working as a counselor at A New Direction for Counseling. I have also worked at Eastway Behavioral for a year as an Intake Therapist. I have worked at Kettering Health Network on their Behavioral Health Assessment Team. And I have worked at Miami Valley Hospital in their Inpatient Psychiatry Unit as a Social Worker/Counselor; essentially just discharge planning. In taking on all of these jobs I have gained a lot of experience in different areas in mental health treatment and care. I have now begun thinking about starting my own business and I reached out to the state of Ohio and acquired a business license. My new business name will be Searching 4 Life's Missing Pieces. I feel that everyone has a part of their life that they are trying to resolve and in that manner I am going to be the conductor who assists the on that journey. I am still working out the logistics and I am discussing the adventure with my therapist. I am a firm believer that everyone needs an unbiased third party to talk to and that is where counselors come into the picture. 

Welcome back to my blog. 

Sheila

Times they are a changing

Written 7/21/2015

I am back at work today and I am learning so much about people while I am here. It amazes me how many people come in to the information desk at the hospital and tell me their life story. Everyone has a story and everyone has suffered in some way. It makes you realize that your life problems could be so much worse.

One of the things that I am finding is that so many of the older workers at the hospital either live with their children and share vehicles. Or their adult children live with the parents. Several years ago in my creative writing class I wrote a paper on "The move back to Family." In the paper I postulated that as the economy became worse the trend would be for families to live together in community homes. I am seeing this come to fruition as people lose jobs and scramble to find places to live and ways to make ends meet.

I was lucky after losing my job that I was able to survive on the Long Term Disability payments. Not everything got paid, but  the majority was handled. Luckily I was able to keep the house,  and life is beginning to improve.