Donna Brooks, LCSW

Donna Brooks, LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Creative Facilitator for Community Connections, Advocate for "Saging" with Grace.

Happy Halloween!
11/01/2025

Happy Halloween!

Just finished this book and the short daily journal entries plus writing prompts enclosed in it. This was an excellent w...
10/24/2025

Just finished this book and the short daily journal entries plus writing prompts enclosed in it. This was an excellent way to reflect on various aspects of life and engage in journal writing first thing in the morning. Enjoyed it very much, and intend to keep creative morning habits going.

Snippets from our equinox retreat. BALANCE in stillness and movement, sound and silence, connection and solitude. It w...
09/21/2025

Snippets from our equinox retreat. BALANCE in stillness and movement, sound and silence, connection and solitude.
It was a lovely day!

What adopting a GROWTH MINDSET might look like...Explore the possibilities while owning and taking responsibility for yo...
09/15/2025

What adopting a GROWTH MINDSET might look like...
Explore the possibilities while owning and taking responsibility for your part.

Amidst all the talking heads during these trying times… Here is a poem.
09/11/2025

Amidst all the talking heads during these trying times… Here is a poem.

"People come in and out of our lives for different purposes, and our deepest suffering arises when we try to control eve...
09/01/2025

"People come in and out of our lives for different purposes, and our deepest suffering arises when we try to control every outcome. We try to control our relationships, our friendships, and the people we believe have to always be there. But what if each teacher is here for the time needed, and when they leave, it’s actually a reflection of what you are ready for? What if people leaving, relationships ending, is actually a reflection of your readiness for transformation?" ~Nikol Rogers

A poem that speaks to the many parts within us. Bringing together my love of poetry, the natural world, and parts work. ...
08/21/2025

A poem that speaks to the many parts within us. Bringing together my love of poetry, the natural world, and parts work. YOU are the keeper of the zoo.
Self Energy. ❤️

WILDERNESS
by Carl Sandburg

There is a wolf in me … fangs pointed for tearing gashes … a red tongue for raw meat … and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me … a silver-gray fox … I sniff and guess … I pick things out of the wind and air … I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers … I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me … a snout and a belly … a machinery for eating and grunting … a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me … I know I came from saltblue water-gates … I scurried with shoals of herring … I blew waterspouts with porpoises … before land was … before the water went down … before Noah … before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me … clambering-clawed … dog-faced … yawping a galoot’s hunger … hairy under the armpits … here are the hawk-eyed hankering men … here are the blond and blue-eyed women … here they hide curled asleep waiting … ready to snarl and kill … ready to sing and give milk … waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird … and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want … and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.




Do what you value. Receive what you value. Not aligned? You don't have to receive it.
08/19/2025

Do what you value. Receive what you value. Not aligned? You don't have to receive it.

May I never be done growing.
07/17/2025

May I never be done growing.

EQUANIMITY.
07/15/2025

EQUANIMITY.

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Cary, IL
60013

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