This is a more personal piece than I usually share. I’m choosing to write it intentionally, with care for what I hold and what I keep private. Not as a full telling, but to show that on the other side of being a therapist is a human making sense of patterns that still live in me. April has never just been a month for me. April feels heavy for me. Not for everyone, but for me, because of what it holds. It is something my body recognizes before my mind does. When Certain Times

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