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Friday, June 1, 2007

A chink in the armor

Today was daughter's third visit with an art therapist and I was beginning to wonder if it was worth the time. She was being her usual good-natured happy self for the first 50 minutes. She loves trying all the different materials, sparkles, paints, pencils. But then the therapist asked me about the upcoming birth, our plans for inducing, whether I was feeling any symptoms of cholestasis. Almost as soon as we started to talk dd's demeanor changed dramatically. Suddenly she was frustrated, angry, whiny, needy. As sad as it makes me to see her feeling so upset I am thankful that the chink in her armor appeared at her therapist's, you know? I am not sure about the therapist's approach, she doesn't talk so much and I am definitely more into more back and forth. But art therapy is something I don't know much about and I don't know much about how to reach hurting kids either so here's to hoping that a little more time and this little opening will be the start of dd's road to healing.

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