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Why Do I Play Small When I Want To Play Big?
MacKenzie Bradke, LCSW MacKenzie Bradke, LCSW

Why Do I Play Small When I Want To Play Big?

I’m always the smallest person in the room. I will minimize my accomplishments all day long. I look at other therapists like they’re celebs that I’m not allowed to rub elbows with, only admire from afar. I never feel like I’m on the same or equal playing field.

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The Toxic Trap of Hustle Culture for Therapist Moms
MacKenzie Bradke, LCSW MacKenzie Bradke, LCSW

The Toxic Trap of Hustle Culture for Therapist Moms

What is hustle culture? It’s taking clients that aren’t a good fit just to fill our schedule. It’s not charging what we deserve and need to in order to live because it feels uncomfortable or someone down the street had a reaction to it. It’s throwing out all of the (frankly, half-ass) products, trainings, worksheets, etc that we can to make money. To get ourselves out there in the therapy world. It’s how we don’t listen to our own voice/body/intuition that makes us the experts in our field.

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