124. Blueberries, Butterfat, and the Beautiful Mess of School Counseling

Update: 2025-08-20

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Episode Summary:

What does ice cream have to do with school counseling? More than you might think. In this episode, I share the famous Blueberry Story—a tale that perfectly captures the heart of what we do as counselors. While businesses can send back “bad batches,” schools take every child who walks through the doors—gifted, anxious, angry, brilliant, frightened, and everything in between.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

The surprising connection between ice cream and education.
Why schools can’t—and shouldn’t—be run like businesses.
How school counselors act as cultivators of every “blueberry” who enters their care.
Why small, messy, and unmeasurable moments with students matter more than any spreadsheet.

Motivation to Take With You:

You don’t need perfect ingredients to create transformation. Every day, you’re doing life-changing work—not with butterfat percentages or flawless blueberries, but with patience, empathy, and heart. You’re cultivating growth in a patch that’s sometimes messy, sometimes wild, but always worth it.

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