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MINIME said:
Please dont treat me like I am a disease. Listen to me hear me and help me feel safe again. dont treat me like a child with a behavior problem. Dont judge me or talk down to me. Love me for the person I am and be a witness to my "trauma" help me put it in words. Help me learn that people are safe by showing me not telling me. I fought to stay alive and now i am fighting to live.

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Minime, you are a very wise young person, a survivor! You sound like you have good insight and you can identify what you need and you know who you are. These are the skills you need to get better!

I couldn't agree with you more. I think many in the helping professions do not really connect with their clients and this is really a shame. Connecting is half if not more of the helping! I think that a lot of them aren't connected with themselves so this is why they cannot connect with others.

I am so glad that I met you here! You are very special. I feel a connection with you already!

Just a little about my background. I did child protection for a year and a half after I finished my Master of Social Work. I was an ongoing case worker who was assigned the foster children. I loved these children! I stopped working when I had my first child and I have been a stay-home mom now for about a decade. I volunteer in the school system and my heart still goes out to young people because I feel that the childhood is so darn important (mine was very lacking so I know what it feels like!)