4/11/21
I haven’t written much lately, except this newsletter. Things have been moving a mile a minute, and maybe you know by now that I struggle when life moves too quickly. It’s all arms and legs and no thinking, no feeling. Only the hard stuff makes it through.
BUT I’m happy to report that the dawn is breaking on the horizon. On Friday, I took my program final, the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Exam, and thank God, I passed. I’ve got a couple of odds and ends left – a few papers, a couple of presentations, and terminating with my clients at my internship (truly the most difficult bit of it all), and then I’ll be done. Graduation. A therapist in the place of the girl who stood there before?
Right now, I’m happy. I’m excited and sad and relieved, and I want to soak in every moment of this before it all becomes those little nostalgic pieces that make you shake your head and wonder how time passed so quickly.
“But it’ll change.”
The phrase that has been bouncing around in my mind over the past few weeks. When it’s hard and you’re in pain and you’re not sure how you’ll make it through. A light, a ray of hope.
When life is sweet and you keep glancing around in awe of how you got to this moment, right here. A reminder to revel in it before it’s gone.
But it’ll change. An anchor in every storm and every slice of paradise.
Lightly,
Leah
Leah Kepley, M.Ed. 