<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> <font color="#880000"> Dear T, THANK YOU FOR </font> </pre><hr />

your empathy
your sympathy
your time
your patience
your knowledge
your wisdom
your expertise
your compassion
helping me
being nonjudgemental
your comfortable couch
being YOU

My favorite things about you:
You rolling up your sleeves fastidiously.
You putting your hand on your chin while you are thinking about an answer to my question.
Watching you interact with other children, you must have been a wonderful father!
You making me feel safe.
You making me feel safe.
You making me feel safe.
You making me feel safe.
You being there for me.
You believing in me when I don't.
You telling me it will get better when I can't see this.
YOU, YOU, YOU!

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I agree.

You are right Soli-- it's so important to remember these things.

Dear T,

Thank you for the way which you recognize all parts of me. The way you are teaching me that there is so much more to me than the narrow window through which I see myself. Thank you for always being interested in everything-- in me as a whole person. You have acknowledged rage, creativity, attachment, beauty, the child in me, the therapist in me, playfulness, humor, anxiety, sadness, pain, connection, disconnection, and more-- and through all of this you have never stepped away, only moved closer.

Thank you for the way in which you look when you listen to me. The way you put your hand on your chin and play fiddle with your goatee very intensely while staring at me. I have never had somebody look so engaged with me.

Thank you for understanding me better than anyone else in the world ever has.

Thank you for being the only person to not be afraid to say the things that no one else ever has.

And finally, thank you for last Tuesday-- thank you for being the only person in the entire wold, ever, who may have actually gotten through to me about my SI.

Thank you T,

For having sessions in my mind when you're away. For reading the dozens of letters I give, for smileing when I cry, and for caring when I don't care.

Thank you for listening, thank you for helping me through each day, even when you're not their to say, it'll be ok. Thank you for letting me lean on you, when others shun me down. Thank you for being my friend, my mentor, my family, thank you for taking care of me, for each day I live, for a new tomorrow , this tomorrow you've showed me.

Thank you T!