I don’t know. And I’m not saying that in a cutesy way. I genuinely don’t know if writing a blog in 2026 makes sense.
And I’m not totally sure why, but it feels important.
When I built this website, I realized something. A website can be clean and professional and still feel kind of empty. Like it tells you what I do, but not who I am. And I’m not interested in hiding behind a “therapist voice” that sounds perfect, polished, and emotionally neutral.
I’m a therapist, yes. I’m also a mom first. And being a mom has made me more human, not less. It’s made me more aware of how much we all carry around quietly.
The mental load.
The anxiety that sits in your body.
The ways you can love your kids more than anything and still feel overstimulated, reactive, unsure, or exhausted.
The way you can be doing “fine” on paper and still feel like you’re barely holding it together.
And honestly, I think a lot of people feel like that. Not in a dramatic way. In the everyday way.
I want this blog to be a space where professional Rachael can be personal. Not in a boundary-less way. Not in an oversharing way. Just in a real way.
Because therapists are humans too. We don’t float above the things we help people with. We live inside them. We learn, we adjust, we have our own patterns, we get triggered, we repair, we try again. That’s part of what makes this work feel meaningful to me.
I don’t want therapy to feel like this mysterious thing you “should” do when you’ve hit a breaking point. I want it to feel like a place you can go to understand yourself. To make sense of your reactions. To figure out what’s yours, what you inherited, and what you want to do differently.
That’s what Illuminated Roots is about to me.
So this blog will be a mix of what I’m learning, what I’m noticing, what I keep seeing in the room with clients, and what I’m living in my own life too. Sometimes it will be practical. Sometimes it will be reflective. I’m not going to force it into a perfect formula.
If you’re reading this, you probably don’t need another “5 tips” post. You probably want something that feels honest and helpful and human.
That’s what I’m trying to create here.
And if you’re here at the very beginning, while I’m still figuring it out, I’m really glad you are.
~Rachael
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