Thank you Wendy for helping us to see by really looking through the practice of drawing. As a former Children's librarian, your library story particularly touched me & brought back memories of the many struggling folks (lots of teens) who called our library their safe space. Now as a Narrative Therapy Practitioner, I resonate because what you've said about paying attention to really see is what we do. Together we explore threads under the initial problem story "I'm worthless" and notice and pay attention to the alternative preferred story: "I'm a survivor of abuse" and ask questions like. "Gosh, I'm imagining you did things to survive that. What helped you survive that experience (s)?" And we uncover details such as: imagination like reading every book in the library so i could escape even in the same house." Me: "how might imagination have helped you in other ways? Where else might you have used imagination?" We might then explore a whole story about poetry they've written or how in their current job they use imagination for problem solving These are skills often overlooked in other forms of therapy because of what they are paying attention to. In Narrative we see so much more. We see a whole person beyond any one label... So, thank you Wendy for assisting so many to pay attention and really see.♡