early reflections

I remember as a young girl sitting at the kitchen counter while my mother was cooking asking her questions about why people did what they did. I was trying to understand my friends, my teachers and myself in the world of relationships and stories. In turn my mom would share stories about her work as a nurse at that time at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Her stories touched me and I found myself being moved and curious.  There was something incredibly alive about relationships. I decided at that time when I was 10 years old that I wanted to be a counselor.