Welcome Back!

I've been gone for a while from the School Counseling blog as I've been working on healing from the loss of my amazing husband. 

So, welcome to the launch of my new and improved website and blog - simply titled using my full name, www.SusanRardonRose.com. 

As you may be aware, previously I had two sites:

1. Counseling Today, which focused on School Counseling, and
2. Profoundly Changed, which focused on my grief journey with losing my amazing husband

This new site and blog combines my career of over 30 years in School Counseling with the experience of losing my amazing husband to provide both School Counseling Support and Grief Coaching in the same place.

I am  excited to share with you MORE of what School Counseling has to offer!

And, I'm hopeful that by sharing my journey through intense grief, you will find some comfort as well. 

I wanted to start by telling you why I created this blog, what you will be seeing more of in my posts, and my overall experience of revamping my website. 

Why I started the blog

I have spent the most current years of my career in higher education, but have many years experience as a school counselor and teacher in both private and public schools. This experience, along with my education and research, established a broad spectrum of experience from which to draw and placed me in situations which prompted me to publish.  So, I'm writing this blog so that I can informally share what I’ve learned with fellow counselors as well as parents.

Additionally, as I was preparing to share the School Counseling experience, my husband was losing our battle with his health. (I wasn't ready to see it in April 2020, but soon learned that I had to face anticipatory grief and then later intense grief when he went to be with Jesus in October 2020.) 

Writing is another one of my passions, so it seems natural to combine two of my passions (school counseling and writing) with this blog to (1) share helpful knowledge, strategies and activities in School Counseling and (2) help both myself and others heal through the painful experience that is grief.

What you will be seeing in my posts

School Counseling will obviously be the main topic of that part of the blog, but you will also be seeing much more of the face behind Counseling Today (me), and a mixture of what I’ve picked up along the way throughout my career, including counseling strategies, parenting techniques, and self-care as well as through the recent experience of losing my husband in the Grief Coaching part of the blog. I may be a “perfectionist” but I am nowhere near perfect. That’s one of the main messages I want to convey with this blog – that we are all just trying to get through this life the best way we can. But, if we support each other, we can make it better for all of us. Please feel free to always share your experiences and communicate with me along the way! I hope to inspire you because, truthfully, I believe that one cannot help others without helping themselves. So, we’re all in this together.

Revamped experience

Not only did I want to start a blog, but after having my business for almost twenty years, I was ready to totally revamp my brand and website which I initially created on my own. Originally, the company and the website was focused on selling curriculum that I wrote. The new direction is to share information through the blog as well as through Professional Development workshops and seminars. The new website and this blog reintroduces me.