The last two mini-series have truly been a joy to create. Sharing my trying-to-conceive journey and my postpartum experience was vulnerable, tender, and despite how raw it often felt, deeply rewarding. Those seasons deserved space, honesty, and reflection. But as life naturally does, I’m feeling a shift.

Right now, I’m being pulled toward another part of myself that has been quietly growing for years: my career, my studies, and my passion for behavioral health.

If you’re new here, you may not know that I’ve been studying behavioral health for several years. Along the way, I earned my Associate degree along with certificates in both Basic and Advanced Behavioral Health Sciences. I’m currently working toward my bachelor’s degree, and I find myself constantly energized by the work I’m doing in school. Some assignments place me in a deep, focused flow. The kind where learning feels alive, purposeful, and strangely personal.

What’s most fascinating to me is how much my academic life mirrors my real one. The concepts I study don’t stay confined to textbooks or discussion boards; they show up in my relationships, my parenting, my healing, and the way I understand the world. That intertwining of learning and lived experience makes this journey incredibly meaningful. It reminds me that growth doesn’t happen in isolation but it happens all at once, across many layers of life.

Because of that, I want to begin sharing more of what I’m learning here.

From now through May, I’ll be posting reflections inspired by my coursework!!! My thoughts, insights, and takeaways. These will not be my assignments verbatim, but rather personal interpretations of what I’m learning and how it applies to everyday life. My intention is simple: to offer knowledge that is thoughtful, accessible, and genuinely beneficial to my community.

Here are some of the topics you can expect throughout this mini-series:

Fundamentals of Family Systems Counseling

Behavioral Development Across the Lifespan

Multicultural Approaches to Behavioral Health Care Biological

and Environmental Bases of Behavior

I’ll be kicking things off with a topic that feels especially urgent and close to home:

“The Quality of Our Food in America: A Public Health Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore”

(Social Problems)

This next season of content reflects where I am now, curious, grounded, and committed to understanding both the human mind and the systems that shape our well-being. Motherhood will always be part of me, but so is this calling to learn, question, and share.

Thank you for growing alongside me. I’m excited to step into this chapter and even more excited to have you here for the conversation.

WELCOME TO MY NEW SERIES “Learning in Real Time” !!!

Notes From a Behavioral Health Student!!!