Jul
25
2010
Jean Austin-Danner, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
I am one of the counselors at Like Skills Resource Group in Orlando. I am also a human being with my own life experiences. This blog posting is written more from a personal, rather than professional, perspective.
As I cleaned out some old files recently, I came across something I wrote in the days preceding my mother’s death in April, 2001. I am working with several clients who are working through their own grief right now. I share my words of coming-to-acceptance to honor all those who courageously do the hard work of grieving.
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Jun
21
2010
Garrett Fabico
I attended Catholic schools for middle and high school and feel immensely grateful and privileged for everything that they exposed me to. It was from those environments that I learned how to recognize right from wrong (and how much more I enjoyed wrong), the importance of appreciation, and that maybe all that matters in life is learning to love your own. Perhaps most dear to the person I am now, though, was the byproduct of a regimented and often hypocritical Catholic education: independent thought. From an early age, I began to think inquisitively about religion. I was bothered most, I think, by my peers’ acceptance (or lack of apparent questioning) of God’s supreme wisdom arbitrarily dispensed by school textbook. Catholic God’s case received further demerit when I learned that even gingerly posed questioning (in middle school and from a particular junior theologian, mind you) would be met with either idiomatic rote or punishment. Though I was enamored by what I saw as the core of the Catholic faith—a selfless and loving lifestyle characterized by the actions you take for others—I was convinced that the people around me calling themselves Catholics did not show that they were Catholic by the way they lived. To me, a lot of these people were merely wearing their religion like a fly pair of shoes—they make a good impression and protect your feet from the hot concrete, but they’re nowhere to be found when there isn’t anyone around to see them.
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Jun
06
2010
Jean Ausrtin-Danner, LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Mar
21
2010
Jean Austin-Danner, MSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Feb
13
2010
Jean Austin-Danner, MSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
by Jean Austin-Danner, MSW, LCSW
If you are looking for a counselor or life coach in Orlando, you might find it helpful to know why that professional is in this line of work. I am one of the counselors here at Life Skills Resource Group in Orlando and this is my answer to that question.
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