Do all the years of fancy therapeutic training you want but therapists are (and should be) human beings first and foremost.
That’s why I didn’t mind admitting to my clients today that I did not relish my little girl going off to nursery this morning.
In fact I called them at lunchtime to see if she was OK.
I wonder how many nurseries and holiday clubs have had similar calls from other parents and care givers today.
That’s why my husband is collecting her early from nursery today.
That’s why I’ll be squeezing both her and our little boys extra tight today.
The horrors in Southport yesterday will change those who are affected’s lives forever.
And it affects all of us to some degree.
And it should.
We *should* feel a tiny, tiny portion of their trauma. It’s important that we can bear witness to other’s pain.
It’s a really hard thing in life to get your head around the fact that we can’t eliminate risk.
And that we all have to operate on the basis of risk assessments all the time.
I feel uneasy about my kids being away from me today.
But in reality they are no more and no less safe than they were the day before yesterday.
And for me to keep them at home 24/7 would not eliminate all risks in life (as much as sometimes I would like to try…).
So we have to learn to live with it.
But some days are (much) harder than others.
Sending love to anyone feeling really heavy, heartbroken and upset after yesterday’s news.
And I’m thinking especially, of course, of those directly affected whose lives have been changed forever.