Hi, I\'m really connecting to your writing/blogging. I appreciate your voice and the path you\'ve chosen. I\'m an art therapist, but I struggle with the westernized view... I don\'t think I\'m burned out, but I feel the oppressed by the poor (or greedy) management of our mental health system (North Carolina). Right as you left mental health, I entered this field. I wrote my thesis on various multicultural techniques that would guide my approach to creating a safe and artful space with clients. I don\'t know if you\'ve come across \"Ntu Psychotherapy,\" but it was a resource I\'d found helpful. Basically, from the Afrocentric view, isolating a person in a room for an individual session takes away one of the most valuable resources: community healing. Anyway, I am very glad to have found your website as a resource for motivation/inspiration. I\'m writing a small self-help book about portraiture/self-portraiture for self-reflection. I would really like to reference your writing/work (I sometimes paint portraits of other people who\'ve opened my mind in some way). \"...the mountains are as transient as the clouds,\" Charlotte