About Frankie
I am a 27-year-old therapist living in Nashville, Tennessee. Although I work in the mental health field, my focus is not on putting people into categories of mental illness. My desire to pursue a degree in counseling was borne out of the fact that I am fascinated by human beings – our deepest problems, our fears, and our triumphs. I’ve found that sitting with other people’s problems highlights my own difficulties and questions about life. It’s like looking at your skin in a magnifying glass everyday: it forces you to acknowledge the sunspots, large pores, wrinkles, and potentially horrible future damage. My reasons for becoming a therapist were partly selfish in nature: I wanted a career that would make me accountable to truth. I wanted to face up to the complex problems and inner-ugliness of life itself. Because alongside ugliness, there is always beauty. We can’t have one without the other, and my goal is to rip the curtain away from both. I now know that if I want to see inner-beauty, then I have to see everything else, too. To accomplish this, I work to cultivate a genuine commitment to consistent authenticity. My goal with this website is to open a portal into my thoughts and conclusions about a variety of topics that relate to my own personal development, search for fulfillment, and relationships with others. The seed for this blog was planted in 2003 when I first began writing about my life experiences in a semi-public online format. I discovered that honest self-disclosure has the power to cut across the barriers that separate people and provide valuable, thought-provoking information about key life struggles. My intent is to help other people through the sharing of my experiences, thoughts, and decisions about how to lead a better life.
"Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."
-Thoreau
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