Sarah Mort Therapy

06/21/2025

✧INSPIRE✧
For years I had this marker board on my office wall and each week I would have a new quote on it - for myself and for my clients. I LOVED finding the quote for the week and EVERY SINGLE TIME it would seem to speak directly to a client for that week. I never questioned it, just found what felt right for the week. I left that office shortly before my maternity leave in 2017 and this was one of the last images and my all time favorite. Every client chose a color and put their own word on the board. Each week it slowly filled. Clients got to see they weren’t alone even though it was just us every meeting. They inspired each other, and they inspired me.
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Today I was missing this particular moment. My practice is SO different now. For starters, I am no longer in RI. And for a time I was entirely virtual along with every other therapist because of the pandemic. While I am grateful for that shift and the flexibility that being virtual gives (for one thing I still have many of my RI clients!), I have missed the in-person experience. I have an office now - in CT, which I love almost as much as the one in RI. But it is still mostly empty of people. Of color. Like the voices of each person on this board. Perhaps it’s time I put it back on the wall. Who knows, maybe it will inspire once again.

04/13/2025

From

06/25/2022

My first job out of college was at my local Planned Parenthood in Durango, CO. I had been an intern for my senior year and was hired immediately after at an entry level position, working my way up to assistant manager but the end of my time there.

We provided abortions one day a week.

Although we were in a college town, we served women from young to old, of all classes, races and socio-economic status. Many women who had completed their families, didn’t know they could still get pregnant as they were transitioning into menopause.

Not a single client or staff member took the decision, the work, lightly.

Not a single client ever wanted to have to make such a decision.

But having the access, the right to make such a decision was theirs.

And it remained theirs at all times.

It was in this job that I realized my purpose as a therapist and with my bosses blessing went on to obtain my masters in social work.

I hope that I continue to provide compassion and respect for my clients in the same way that I witnessed and gave at PP.

I will forever be grateful for this clinic, for my colleagues, for my boss - CTM, for the many clients we served, and for what I was taught by all of them.

I will always fight for you, for me.🖤 SM

05/05/2021

LOVING this book right now...also, I’ve basically underlined the entire thing. So might I recommend reading with a highlighter or pen near by...just saying. 🙏🏻🙌🏻❤️

04/16/2021

Might I recommend....Humankind.

It’s based on the notion that we are actually hardwired for kindness, compassion and trust rather than competition, evil and mistrust. We are innately good.

One of the recommendations from the book that I am deeply contemplating still is this:

“Temper your empathy, train your compassion.”

As a therapist this was a 🤯 and yet it totally resonates for me. I’d be curious what others think (but also read the book to learn why he recommends this!)

03/26/2021

…been in therapy (multiple times)
…had a female therapist
…had a male therapist
…had a therapist I loved
…had therapists I didn’t love
…had a therapist break confidentiality (and therefore trust/respect)
…had a therapist assume it was ok to talk to me in public
…had therapists not return my email seeking therapy
…had therapists not return my call when seeking therapy
…had a therapist treat me differently because I was a therapist even though I was their client
…missed a therapy session (and was charged for it)
…held stuff back from a therapist
…wanted my therapist to like me
…cried in therapy
…had a therapist cry with me in therapy
…laughed in therapy
…made a therapist laugh in therapy
…had a hard time reaching out to a therapist
…taken a medication that didn’t help
…taken a medication that helped
…felt ashamed about taking medication
…felt grateful for medication
…found exercise to be like therapy
…not wanted to exercise
…felt the benefits of meditation
…felt nothing while meditating
…practiced yoga and hated it
…practiced yoga and loved it
…felt like therapy wasn’t working
…felt like therapy WAS working
…felt hard truths and emotions in therapy
…taken breaks from therapy
…thought I would fix other people in therapy
…ended up helping ME!

02/14/2021

Happy V Day ❤️ Trust me when I say this is something worth listening to for anyone who is looking for love but feeling “flawed”, anyone already in a relationship but feeling like “the grass may be greener”, or anyone who is happily in love right now. Basically - everyone.

‎Show On Being with Krista Tippett, Ep Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships - Feb 11, 2021

01/25/2021

What I know about grief:
Time softens sadness.
Which means I can think of
My mom with more JOY
These days.....
Yesterday was her birthday....dying at 66 means she never grows old in my memory. It’s neither a good nor bad thing, it just is...
Time softens sadness.

01/20/2021

Who else is crying today? 🙋🏻‍♀️
✅ My first born turned 10 today 😭
✅ Biden is finally our President 😭
✅ AND I just watched Kamala Harris, the first woman to ever be the Vice President of the USA, be sworn in 😭

SO MANY EMOTIONS AND HAPPY TEARS

12/27/2020

**Wintering**
This quote is quite possibly the most beautiful sentence I’ve read this season, if not this year. It continues “The year will move on no matter what, but by paying attention to it, feeling its beat, and noticing the moments of transition - perhaps even taking time to think about what we want from the next phase in the year - we can get the measure of it.”..
This week I certainly hope to reflect on this past year while then turning my attention to the new year and how I might bring into 2021 all that I’ve learned from this dark and strange year of 2020. 🙏🏻

12/21/2020

“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximizing scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but it’s crucible.” ~ Katherine May...
LOVING the quietness of this book during this dark December.
🙏🏻...
What books are getting you through these days?

12/21/2020

“Plants