AM/PM

One of the things that I've been thinking a lot about is how I would describe the particular combination of social work and psychoanalysis that I'm attempting to enact. For a long time, I've seen these two preoccupations (both of which are my occupations)

I woke up in the middle of the night last night. This happens to me a lot, but I can get back to sleep most of the time. Last night was not one of the "most of the time" times. After tossing and turning for a few hours,

One of the first jobs I had in mental health was working in a substance abuse treatment center. There are different kinds of substance abuse treatment centers. Some are like luxury spas; the people you find being treated there are members of wealthy families. The treatment center I worked in

I felt like I needed to change things up a bit, so rather than writing first thing in the morning, I did other things. One of the things I did was take a walk in the cold. It was 14 degrees Fahrenheit-10 Celsius, and there was a wind. The walk

Very early It is 5:27 am as I write this. I've managed to make my body get out of a warm bed. I can look out the window and see Christmas lights on homes, which is a pleasant thing to look at as my body adjusts to

The end of the semester is here, and so is all of the frantic activity and stress that comes with the end of a semester. Yesterday was a crazy busy day. As soon as I was awake, I was getting things done. Any "free time" was used to

When I started writing AM⌭PM, the goal was to write something every day. The simple plan was to write something every morning and write something every evening. I quickly learned that writing in the morning is not a problem. But writing something in the evening is a challenge for