The Kids Just Like You Too Much

School for School Counselors Podcast · May 18, 2026 · 24m

A school administrator once told me the reason I couldn't finish a single classroom lesson was because the kids just liked me too much.She meant it as a compliment. It took me years to understand what it actually revealed.This episode is about the gap between the job we were trained to do and the job we're actually allowed to do. How that gap gets handed to counselors as personal failure. And what happens to a profession- and to the people in it- when nobody's willing to name that out loud.I'm talking about how I accidentally became a school counselor, what I've had to publicly un-say after…