>> I mean the best part is working with the people that we treat.
Seeing somebody come in physically so broken because of what drugs and alcohol have done.
That change is pretty phenomenal and pretty quick.
Just going through the acute withdrawal phase, coming out on the other end.
People's skin, hair, bodies, everything about them kind of physically instantly looks better
and of course, even better than that it's really the emotional changes that they go through
and how confidence is reestablished.
Esteem, you know efficacy.
Relationships that they've lost or have been damaged start to, you know, repair.
And I love to -- I get to be a witness to miracles literally miracles happening every day.
Yeah, at times, it can be difficult.
I would definitely be lying if I said I never took my work home emotionally.
There are definitely times -- my signs and symptoms that I'm stressed with work is
that I usually dream about work and then it feels like I haven't left.
So I'm kind of here during the day and then I go home and I dream about it.
So I like never leave and that's a sign for me that I'm not taking enough care of myself.
That I've started to take work home that I'm worrying and I'm anxious and I'm stressed
and that I need to do some things to take care of myself.
So definitely there are times when that happens but I've had really good supervision
from phenomenal therapists in this field who have really made a point to beat into head
that I have to be able to take care of myself first in order to take care of others.
It's like the oxygen mask analogy, you know?
If you are on an airplane, the flight attendants always tell you if there's someone sitting next
to you who can't help themselves.
You got to put the oxygen mask on first in order to really be there for them.
And it's the same thing especially, you know, in the work that therapists do.