thank you so much for this, echoes! Oddly enough, as I was driving today I was thinking about my relationship w/my T (well, that part's not so odd ) and how in so many ways she is mothering the little Zooey inside me in a way that is so nurturing and healing. I can FEEL that in a way I never felt before.

And then I came here, and read that article you linked to, and it just reinforced the whole thing even more.