A Work in Progress!

"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you." Barbara Shur

I took a big step today! I updated my LinkedIn profile to more fully reflect where I am at in my career .

I don’t want to say the word “retirement”, because I’m not retiring. What I would say is that I am putting a punctuation mark after another phase of my career. That being said, I made the decision to stop booking new clients. I am limiting my practice to current clients and those I’ve worked with in the recent past.

I remain committed to the ideas of professional and personal development, challenging limiting beliefs and pushing beyond your comfort zone! I will continue to post and curate material on these topics.

It kind of shocks me to realize that I have been in some version of the social work profession for 44 years! Positions have run the gamut from protective services /child welfare, hospital social worker to brief, solution focused licensed psychotherapist .For the last 9 years I have been a solopreneur, with a life coaching and career coaching practice.

The common thread running throughout my career has been using solution focused creativity and problem solving to help others empower themselves.

Always striving for mastery and excellence, I honed my skills continuously. Whether pursuing training with the best, finding creative solutions or working in high volume, high risk positions, I went for it!

I feel I am at a point now that I want to try transitioning these hard won skills into something else. I feel another reinvention coming on! Not sure what this new path is going to look like. Maybe a merging of my love of dogs and pet therapy, photo journaling, writing, mindfulness, podcasting! I'm a pretty darn good interviewer after all of these years and I think doing a podcast might be amazing! Not sure, but updating this profile and restricting my practice are the first steps!