Good Grief

I'm sure you've heard me mention that I am "in school". I am a little over half way through with my Master's degree in counseling. Counseling is a BIG field as you can imagine (Marriage counseling, school counseling, career counseling, and so on) and I am happy to say that I have found my calling in this big world of the counseling career. Just the other day I asked a woman who is a practicing therapist right now if she did marriage counseling and her answer was "Hell no that's like jumping on a sinking ship"...now that's not how I feel about it just yet BUT that is not the area that I have been led to focus on...just though that was kinda funny:)
I know God led me to this field, that He set my inner spirit on a journey to find meaning in a career. The progression has gone something like this:
Liked teaching but LOVED talking with my kids...hmm, maybe I should be a school counselor.
Liked the idea of counseling but HATED the idea of being in the school system again...maybe I should do family and marriage counseling and get an office and have appts...
Sounded good to me so I set off to begin working on my Masters while staying at home with my babies.
Began school, loved the classwork, thought I would focus on counseling expecting parents but then...
my best friends husband dies...scarist thing that has ever happened to me.
I HAD to know more.
Attended grief counseling workshops and bought every book I could on grief counseling. I am facinated...I am passionate...about grief counseling. Through Candice's tragic ordeal and the loss of my VERY good friend Tello.. I have found an area that I think I could be helpful in. There is a need and God has placed a fire in my heart to work in this area. Tony and I have talked about my career path in the future and I recently told him I was going to open up a counseling center called "Good Grief"...we laughed but really there is a good (healthy) and bad (unhealthy) way to mourn and grieve. I'm still learning sooo much and I pray that I can raise these two girls, be a good mom AND a good student so that I will have a new career that I am passionate about when they enter school. Can you tell I've been reading one of my books today? :) They are all by Dr. Alan Wolfelt in case you are ever curious.