Laowai

Each of the stickers below represent a time when Bea bravely talked at school. She is right in the thick of it – getting help from her psychologist*, her teacher and lots of other helpers at school. We are not out of the woods and there is a lot of work to do to ease her anxiety. But for the moment we are feeling thankful and hopeful for her future. 

* I shouldn’t feel this way, but just saying out loud that my daughter has a psychologist stabs me in the heart a little. It should be as simple as saying she has a doctor – but somehow it isn’t. It reminds me of all her struggles – even if they are not physical struggles it is still so hard to swallow the idea that your child is in pain.

So if you are in the North Shore Chicago area and you can’t find any stickers in any shops, it’s just because my daughter is doing a fantastic job overcoming some really scary stuff.