“Can you share a bit about your background and your writing?

As a licensed psychotherapist specializing in marriage and family therapy, as well as an ordained Baptist minister formerly employed by churches to passionately talk about things none of us know for sure (like the afterlife!), telling people what “I do for a living” at dinner parties or on Zoom meetings where I don’t know anyone can be terribly fraught. What I mean is that telling people who I am and what I do is mostly an effort at seeing how long it takes for whoever I’m talking to, to eventually excuse themselves to go to the bathroom and never return to our conversation. I always assume this happens because they’re afraid I’m going to baptize them or tell them their dad never loved them (hypothetically), when in fact it’s likely they left because talking to people after spending the last almost-2.5-years avoiding everyone is terrifying, or that during the pandemic I’ve become incredibly boring to talk to. And with an introduction like that, it’s a wonder I haven’t already become famous on Instagram, right?”

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