the people at [volunteer group] have all been responding so kindly to me coming back after a year away. I've literally never been around a group of people who practice such consistent good intentions towards everyone
peer counseling is literally just sitting around and brainstorming ways to be nicer people, which it turns out is actually really healing if you ever start feeling like people hurt too much to be around
#by contrast with supervision which is about tricking your supervisor into thinking you're employable (ie can follow rules)#I'm sure there's good social work supervision out there I just haven't had it yet#but collaborating on peer counseling is very trust building and I literally feel myself get kinder after every session
