Helping Jane and others on Private Practice

INTRODUCTION TO PRIVATE PRACTICE

If you’re a hypochondriac who feels the need to check up on a medical issue and your doctor’s bill has reached its limit, then you must watch the inspirational Grey’s Anatomy spin-off series, Private Practice. This show has everything you need to fulfill those nasty chocolate cravings at night. From fascinating medical issues and romantic storylines to dramatic conflicts between friendships, this fantastic show has it all. Join the Oceanside Wellness Group Medical practice by following the lives of Addison Montgomery, Naomi Bennett, Sam Bennett, Violet Turner, Cooper Freedman, Charlotte King, Sheldon Wallace and newcomer Amelia Sheppard.


PRIVATE PRACTICE SEASON 4 EPISODE 2 –JANE’S STORY

When I usually watch Private Practice on a regular basis, I am always excited and enthusiastic about what is about to happen and the stories it beholds. This time however when I watched Private Practice season 4, episode 2, my mood was very different. Instead of myself feeling warm and overjoyed with the resolutions to the episode’s storyline, I was left feeling emotional and in a trance. When Jane (Darryl Stephens) was telling Charlotte King (KaDee Strickland) about how her ‘insides don’t match my outsides’, I can completely relate that into my own life. Although I know I’m female inside and out, I can relate to how Jane is feeling as I too don’t feel like myself most of the time. What I feel in the inside is the real me; a caring, positive person who just wants to be happy but the outside me is; distraught, upset and vulnerable all the time. There are many of us in the world who battle with this kind of angst like Jane, every day and we all wish we didn’t have too. However most of us who feel like this never get the chance or courage to come forward about it and because of Private Practice I strongly believe it has inspired people to do so. How do I know this? because I am one of those people and I have also some Twitter followers who have told me the same thing.

Fantastic actress KaDee Strickland playing the role as Charlotte made the Jane story come alive. The connection between KaDee and Darryl was engaging to watch as you couldn’t help feel emotionally invested in their character’s story. Dedicated actor Darryl Stephens playing the role of Jane was also right on the money because if someone else had acted the part I do not think it would have made such an inspirational impact on our lives. I truly felt for Jane when she was declined the surgical operation because I too, know what it is like to be rejected in life. I have been socially rejected for most of my life as I always feel like I do not fit in or that I’m the odd one out. Ever since I was a little girl starting school, I have always been teased, bullied and even picked on for being a blond. I used to try and not worry about it but because I get it so much, it is hard not to think about it. This must be how Jane felt like when discovering she was a physically male but inside she actually was female when growing up.

Being socially unaccepted is one of the most traumatizing experiences to go through in life like Jane (Darryl Stevens), just because you are different does not give other people the right to dictate or judge you as a person. Think of all the people in today’s world who are being bullied for being different or more specifically to the people who are in the same position as Jane. Instead there needs to be more people like Charlotte King (KaDee Strickland)so the ones who are like Jane and myself, can actually try to be the real us and not hide our true selves anymore.

This Private Practice Blog is Dedicated to Shonda Rhimes for coming up with this inspirational story, KaDee Strickland for playing the incredible Charlotte King as always, and to Darryl Stephens for playing the inspirational Jane who has helped me in my own life+.