Had a good session of processing with a client about losses and pain. It is certainly not easy for a man of the older generation to be vulnerable to someone of my age and gender. It's really a breakthrough a shift.
I feel satisfied and glad when people I meet with feel safe during a session- when they experience someone being able to hold some of their pain and help them to grieve over their losses. These are the moments when we talk about the real underlying issues and struggles, something that the government's key performance indexes would never really be able to capture when measuring success with our clients in the social service field.
Thankful for such a privilege, really. It is an honor to know someone for who they really are (at least partly). It will then be a start of change and working with the real issues, if they are willing.
“Safe?”.... Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.- The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
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