You have been sitting with this for a while now. Reading. Reflecting. Letting ideas settle somewhere in you without necessarily doing anything specific with them yet. Returning to certain thoughts more than once.

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There is a meaningful difference between a mental health practice that takes on as many clients as possible and one that is deliberate about the number of people it serves at any given time.

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