This Lou is spending her summer in the Lou! (see what I did there?) Somehow I've already been back for two and a half weeks and it has just flown by! So big news item #1....
We have a date for our wedding!!! June 5, 2015. More details to come soon - hopefully we'll have a website up in the next week or so. Okay now that that's out of the way, big news item #2...
I'm officially an intern!!! I'm doing my counseling internship at ALIVE (Alternatives to Living in Violent Environments), a counseling non-profit dedicated to serving and providing resources to victims of intimate-partner violence. I am also seeing clients at Covenant, which makes for a nice balance of the types of cases I'll be seeing. Which leads to big news item #3....
I saw my first client this past week!!! I was absolutely terrified of my meeting with my first client. What if I didn't know what to say? What if we found nothing to talk about for the entire 50 minutes that I was in the room with her? And God was so good, and brought me through that fear - and now I am so excited to sit in the room with clients. I often compare it to the first time I answered the crisis hotline at ALIVE. I was so scared that I wouldn't be able to help the person on the other end of the phone, and was legitimately shaking when I picked up the phone to say:
"Alive; this is Sarah."
"Hi Sarah, I'd like to reschedule my appointment for next week?"
Instant sigh of relief.
It is so easy to psych-oneself out of these risky situations. But in reality, it is just a conversation. And I know I will need to continually remind myself of that, but for now, I am so excited to explore this field that I feel so called into.
