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I absolutely hate telling people my caseload is full, but it's important that I don't overload my schedule—both for my clients' sake as well as mine! Modeling good boundaries is important, too. Still, doesn't make it fun esp. when I know how hard it is to find a good therapist :/
AND THIS IS WHY KNOWING WHERE TO REFER IS ALSO SO IMPORTANT. Knowing we can share the work, that we are not islands, is critical to the sustainability of a network and its parts. And at the same time we hold the complexity of actual scarcity especially along $ & ID-based axes.
Aaaaaand this is also why I train fellow therapists and build community with healers overall. So we can decentralize decentralize decentralize. The mentality of “I’m so special and the only person who can Do This” is trash. Seductive trash but trash nonetheless. RESIST IT.
Some of us were never special and want to feel special now. Some of us were taught we were exceptional and have a need to hold onto that. And there’s a ton in between. But regardless of how we got here and why, capitalism and white supremacy isolate & divide us TO OUR PERIL.
We must reject the entire premise, not just combat little bits of it. WE MUST REJECT THE ENTIRE IDEA OF HIERARCHICAL CENTRALIZED POWER, AUTHORITY, EXPERTISE & SCARCITY-FEAR SCRAMBLING & UNIQUENESS AS THE ROUTE OF CHOICE.
In fact: we are stronger together. We can be special in ways that aren’t damaging AND we can be amazing even if we aren’t unique! We can share shine and resources without it automatically meaning scarcity. We must resist the mentality of rising to a top “by ourselves.”
