Blog tension
Sorry for the slow trickle of posts lately. Lots of personal stuff has been going on, and as a therapist I feel a natural (and appropriate!) tension about reporting personal stuff on my blog. For most bloggers, personal stuff is the whole point of their blog. But for a therapist, it’s different. When I’m working with people, I have to be careful about what I disclose about myself, mostly because it’s all too easy for therapists to make the therapy hour about them. And even if they’re not going that far, it just muddies the waters to talk too much about the therapist and his personal life.
But today I’ll resolve the tension in favor of personal disclosure, because the personal “stuff that’s been going on” is a fun, exciting thing. A new puppy has arrived in the house. If there’s a topic about me that I’m willing to talk about, it’s my puppy dogs. If you’ve been following my blog, you’ve met both Stella and Hoshi. Say hello to Hoku’ala, an eight-week-old Shiba Inu. The vet cleared him yesterday for a lifetime of health, assuming we protect him, and Stella accepts him (she’s not there yet). It’s going fine, but I’m looking forward to sleeping for more than two hours at a time. It’s always a wild ride!
Oh, and Hoku’ala is a Hawai’ian boy name that means “rising star.” (Stella = Latin for star; Hoshi = Japanese for star; this time, in the wake of Hoshi’s untimely departure from the house, we needed the star to be rising.)
August 28th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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