Whatever you’re experience is, it is real and it is valid. 

Try not to get stuck in the -

“it could be worse” 

“its not bad enough”  

Remember your experience is real and valid.

Already scared, isolated and grieving, you entered my life.

Already in survival mode for years, you entered anyways.

Past cries for help, gone silenced and unmet, this now top of my list; not yours…

I was a worker for a few years in the Canadian child welfare system. I stare at this blank page and think about how it’s difficult to find the words that seem right to describe those years…