So, weirdly there was a bit in the book I was reading last night (Grief Works by Julia Samuel) about transitional objects!
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I came up with the idea of a small object, one that she could hold in her pocket, that would represent everything that neither of us could ever fully do - a concrete object invested with abstract therapeutic content. She liked the idea. I gave her a special stone of mine, a quartz, shiny and hand sized. Kayleigh took it and rolled it around in her hand, stroked it. We agreed she should keep it in her pocket. And much later she told me she would regularly take it out and twirl it in her hands, feeling its ancient earthy origins, as well as the connection to our sessions. In therapy-speak it's called a 'transitional object' - and it worked for her.
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100% not at all weird.