What I think is cool is how different people here deal with these ego states. Some are willing to allow themselves to step into these ego states and almost become that little girl or that teenager. Others seem to image there adult ego state stepping in and providing the guidance and loving care that the younger state needs. Others seems to sit in therapy and allow their T to serve as mediator among the states. Then there is me who represents them in drawings and then in therapy acknowledges what they're feeling and what they might have experienced.

To me this is just another case where therapy protocols outlined in some textbook don't accurately reflect the true art of the profession. I think it is amazing how a T might sit with 5 different patients in the same day and use 5 different ways to basically do the same thing--listen and help put the fragments back together.