Emma started her master's degree in counseling psychology because she wants to create a trauma program for mothers.

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I was sitting in a car with my friend, and I was like, “Listen, I don’t know what it is, but something’s gotta change. And I gotta do something and I can’t just sit here and struggle and suffer anymore.” And then she was –we were talking about school, and then it just hit me. And I was like, hang on a second, I’ve been in my career for several years, and I have to two degrees. And I was like, well, I have a psych degree, why don’t I pursue counseling to help other moms? And it just, this light went on. And I used art as a way to cope a lot of the time.

So I was like, OK, this is what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna apply, and I’m gonna go to school. And I’m going to try and use art as a way to help express what you’re going through. And I’m going to – and I just had all these explosive ideas of how I can take this bad experience and turn it into a good one. And when I got accepted, I remember holding my son and saying, “Thank you. Thank you. It’s all because of you.” I never would have –never in a million years. I thought about applying, but I never thought I was good enough, never thought I was smart enough. And then I was just like, no, I’m just going to do it. Because this is why this happened. And so it definitely gave me a positive, huge positive. So goods and bads. I would have preferred to come to this conclusion in a different way, but I’ll take it. Life unfolds, so OK.

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