Hi, I’m Andie (they/them).
I facilitate spaces for hope holders.
I’ve been in the mental health field since 2016, working in high crisis, homeless services, community mental health, private practice, and policy work. Before social work, I was a nanny supporting exhausted parents.
Care work is real work.
I learned the real lessons of depletion, & from these hard lessons, I’ve symbolically died, & re-emerged from the spiral harnessing my strength to ask how to remain a care worker and honor my physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
I am certain care work is missing a crucial piece ~ which is structured support spaces for people to co-regulate with others, and nourish themselves to hold hope for others. (Along with moving out of exploitation - but that’s a longterm goal).
My Approach
Feelings are information.
Curiosity
When I support care workers, I try my hardest to remain curious. What you need is a challenging question under capitalism. Can we make space for creativity, expansiveness, and growth? Can curiosity lead us to new ways of being?
Gentleness
If you’re a healer of any kind it’s most likely you might have said, ‘Can you be a little bit more gentle with yourself?’ Truly though… Can us healers be more gentle with ourselves? What does that look like? What grief & joy might emerge as we acknowledge the shame but not let it guide us?