From back to school nights to suddenly chilly evenings, the last weeks of summer are synonymous with change and rebirth. As this summer comes to a close, here are some of my favorite poems celebrating the season.

You’ve graduated with your master’s degree and packed away your textbooks. You thought your days of educational reading were behind you…but that urge to keep learning keeps nagging at you.

Not all of us can write beautiful poetry that perfectly captures how we’re feeling, but to know that a stranger from a different time and living in a different place knows exactly how your pain feels – well, suddenly, you’re not suffering alone.

From Carl Rogers to Esther Perel, we have been fortunate to have access to some of the greatest minds across the globe. Whether they are writing (or speaking) on love and relationships, the unavoidable pain of the human experience, or the power of mental health counseling, these writers inspire and motivate me daily.

Louis Cozolino published “Why Therapy Works” back in 2016, but the neuroscientific research he employs to back up his claims is astounding. I read his book while getting my master’s in clinical mental health counseling and learned an incredible amount about how the brain works.