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.

My daughter has bad dreams 
She calls for me, she sobs with grief and the anguish of our pain 
She shatters the quiet night as she relives our story 
And by day, 
Toy plastic tigers come alive to find their way back to each other…

A poem about a mother’s experience in the child welfare system.