today were the first of my last sessions with my clients here…wow.

one of them said, “it’s big things for me, Ate Lace, since you’ve been here.”

in case anyone was wondering, four months is too short - I am just now getting to some incredible beginnings…their trust in me is only now established in a way that we can move deeper…

and yet, four months is plenty long.  long enough for me to care deeply about each of my clients.  long enough for them to have told me tragic stories, to bravely cry with me, and to let me matter to them.

and so even though I know it’s time for me to go, my heart is aching at what I am leaving.  I will encourage myself with the same thing I told one of my clients - the things that they have learned to share are inside of them, and were there all along…and so they will be, in my absence just as in my presence, brave and strong and lovely.  and I will hold them in my heart.