I took this photo today: a humid August afternoon in my backyard garden. I just spent an hour harvesting vegetables, batting at mosquitos, pulling weeds, chasing our free-range chickens from the garden, and dripping sweat. Abundance was a word that came to mind at the same moment of feeling totally overwhelmed. What the photo doesn't show is another 10 pounds of cucumbers in my fridge, a food dehydrator at-the-ready on my counter, a giant canning pot on the stove, and eggplan

I recently had the pleasure of completing an online DBT training course designed by Marsha Linehan, the founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). I am not a mental health clinician, nor do I aspire to become one. I see myself more as a witness, facilitator, and coach for those I meet who share their story with us at Virgil Stucker and Associates (VSA). Before we founded VSA in 2017, I worked for many years in direct care roles with adults facing down various mental healt