Therapist Inspiration: KP Strike, The Grammys, and SuperBowl LIX (2025)

by acm

Feb 10, 2025

Consider this an interactive newsletter...I prefer to nudge you into your own personal reflections this week. Grab a notebook or make a voice note for yourself and answer these 3 questions:

1. What is so important to you that you would risk your freedom to protect it?

L.A. police arrested 16 protesters who had sat down in the street on Sunset Boulevard (during the ongoing KP SoCal Mental Health strike).

2. What is your "Drake?" In other words, what do you despise so much that you could spend a whole year methodically eradicating it and then dancing on its metaphorical grave?

Kendrick Lamar's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

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Therapist Inspiration: KP Strike, The Grammys, and SuperBowl LIX (2025)

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