Isayah Alman is a psychotherapist, social worker, mental health researcher, and writer. He is currently teaching LMSW content while developing a framework for sustainable mental health education.
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Part of me needed to see what would happen. After years of accumulating skills, experience, and expertise, I wanted to know whether there was finally room for me to simply be myself at work. Not exceptional. Not disruptive. Just honest. Present. Human. We spend most of our lives working. I cannot exist in a space…