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She grew up without a mother. A deep void that led her to seek “mother” in almost anyone or anything that comforted. Further forms of loss would trigger her most familiar wound. If you didn’t know her history and all that she had been through, you couldn’t understand the way she responded to pain or […]
By Emily Keeling Hope: to cherish a desire with anticipation. Synonyms include: aspiration, desire, wish, and ambition. When my mother was diagnosed with cancer for the second time in 2014, every one of my waking moments was consumed by hope. Hope became somewhat of a “frenemy” to me. Always around, instilling visions of a life […]
By Emily Keeling In honor of Women’s History Month this March, Emily Keeling, founder of Elle Studio + Wellness, looks to her mother in her effort to help other women. “She” is my mother. A woman raised in the 1950s without a mother. Bouncing from home to home with an alcoholic father who divorced and […]
I have always been curious and passionate about the human experience. This is what drove me to become a therapist. I wanted to understand the human condition in a way that made sense to me. As a psychology major in college, it wasn’t the statistics or empirical data that answered my questions. Rather, it was […]