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When We Were Young

To me, that is the crux of children’s work: you hope for the best. Every now and then, you’ll get to see a difference straight away, but most of the time you don’t. I always told my trainees that all we can do is hope that many years down the line, they will remember something about the sessions: what it felt like to be in a safe space, to have someone be congruent with them, to have someone listen without an agenda, to be able to express anything without the world around them collapsing, to being okay with not being okay, to be treated like the human child that they are, rather than the human child someone else wants them to be.

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