Stuck

I had the opportunity to connect with childhood versions of myself that related to the types of adverse childhood events that Oprah and other patients described in the course of the conversational narrative. I relived the emotions around abandonment, fear and anxiety I experienced as a young girl one Saturday morning after swim team practice at the local YMCA, waiting for hours while families checked in, enjoyed and checked out, only to wonder if and when my mother would have the bandwidth to collect me.