Not Bad Thing: The Hurt Feelings (Sad of It)

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Hurt Feelings (Sad of It)

Lisbeth's Tree Frogs Mandala for sale now in her Etsy shop.

Me and Sad Lis.

One of the ways that Lisbeth copes with The Hurt Feelings (Lis-ism for mad and sad)
is by hugging her Hurt Feelings Teddy Bear

(she has had HFTB since she was 9 years :*)

Lisbeth also watches The Hurt Feelings Movie, a video that one of her Ed Techs (a wise and wonderful nurse named Shirley Helms) made for Lisbeth when Lis was at Brunswick High School in 2002. The video is simply footage of Lisbeth telling Shirley why she feels sad. Plugging this into the VCR and watching this little film provides great comfort for Lisbeth and has proved to be a very effective coping tool when she is perseverating.

2 comments:

Susan BeaucheminJanuary 25, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Bears! Patience brought home Corduroy from her Kindergarten class. She just loves to take him home! Stuffed bears are pretty comforting!
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martha millerJanuary 28, 2010 at 4:41 AM
Yes. Let's hear it for BEARS!
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Lisbeth's Blue Bird Angels Mandala

My daughter Lisbeth suffered a traumatic brain injury when she contracted a viral illness in 1988 at the age of six, and she continues to be challenged by multiple difficulties including uncontrolled seizures, behavioral disturbances, learning disabilities and developmental delay. Despite these challenges, Lisbeth's mighty spirit and creativity are remarkably intact. She creates extraordinarily beautiful cut paper snowflakes - hundreds of them (it is ironic that a cluster of seizures is called a "flurry...") and like real snowflakes, each one is unique. Lisbeth sometimes refers to her creations as "brains," which is poignant, for in the making of each snowflake/mandala, it is as if she is recreating her brain. Lisbeth sees figures, animals, and objects in the cutout shapes of each one of her designs, and says that these are what the brain is thinking!