I feel like I am taking a big risk here, but...

T gives me two hugs - one for one of my younger parts, and one for grown up me. The first time he did it, he asked her to come forward and know that this hug was for her. It's a different hug. I sit next to him the couch and he kind of sits next to me and hugs me. It's very comforting. I was scared the first time he did it that grown up me would just disappear and not come back and we talked about that, and just gave it a try. It felt "right".

He gives me (grown up me) a hug before I leave, when we are standing up and I am on my way out the door.

I have been doing a lot of reading about DID lately, and I know that "parenting" a younger part is controversial. I don't feel like he is "parenting" her - I feel like he is comforting her, like he would with grown up me. And I feel like it is a gift in a way...gentle, loving hugs are the opposite of what I grew up with, and giving that to that part of me feels so healing, like something I've needed my whole life.

That's what works for me and my therapy. But we all know me and my therapy is pretty "out there" lol

Peaches - can you tell the younger parts that this hug is for them? Invite them to come out and feel it?

Okay, now don't flame me