My Blog

The act of self-care has become yet another thing women are expected to be good at. Did you use the right filter for that ‘gram of your impeccably prepared...

I posted this meme on my Instagram page (Instagram.com/candacefolden) and my Facebook page (Solstice Counseling and Consulting, PLLC) about a month ago. I was blown away by the number...

Some blogs seem to write themselves. The words flow out of me in just the right order with effortless ease. I love it when that happens. This is not...

It starts with the quietest of whispers.  The faintest stirrings of my heart.  I feel my soul rise, rearranging herself because she’s restless and uncomfortable. Oh no, I think,...

“It was like death by 1,000 paper cuts” my client told me as he poured out his story.  He went on to tell me about the countless nothings that...

Look at this picture.  I  mean, really look at it.  Do you see it?  Her innocence.  Her purity of heart. See past her face and into her eyes.  Do...

“So, what you do?” the mom at my son’s new school asked me. ” I am a therapist”  I respond. It’s the easiest way I know to tell people...

I opened my email and there it was. I read it.  I read it again. I felt my face flush.  Her words stung.  I didn’t want them to but...

This is a love letter from the depths of my soul to the depths of yours.  It may not feel like that when you read my words, which are...

I never realized how tired I am.  Exhausted really.  It’s not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep can fix.  It’s a to the bone weariness.  A...