You were not supposed to learn how to live without them. One moment, life feels familiar. The next, everything is split into before and after. People tell you to be strong. To give it time. To move on. But grief doesn’t work that way. When someone you love dies, the world doesn’t just change, it disappears and reassembles into something unrecognizable. The simplest tasks feel impossible. The silence feels louder than anything you’ve ever known. And somewhere in the middle of it all, you�... [Read More...]

Children do not process the world the way adults do. They do not sit with a difficulty, name it, reflect on it, and arrive at a conclusion. They play it out. They draw it, build it, enact it, give it a character, send it on a journey, and let it resolve in the way that stories resolve — through movement, through metaphor, through the particular safety of something that is real and not real at the same time. The Play Therapy Toolbox brings together 123 actionable activities spanning role-play,... [Read More...]