Anna Ferguson

We've got support workers.

He goes to the pool.

He is cognitively there the same way that he used to be there.

Like, it's crazy to think that.

I mean, it depends on who you are.

But that moment was like, you know, we could go two ways.

And I felt like, again, playing God, like I have a decision to make here.

Like I'm going to push, push, push for this person or I'm going to let them go.

And all I needed was that, yes, we're fighting from Damien to go like, right, we're doing this.

And it was just all system go from that point.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I think my approach is very different.

And now after being a practitioner for over a decade and understanding everything that I do now, I think there is a time to be in your emotions and to feel and unpack things.

And there is a time to

create a bit of space and distance.

So that externalization of just day-to-day life is really important right now, especially when Damien was in hospital.

It was just the momentary noticing of what's happening in my external world.

So for example, I was having a big panic attack one day on the roof of the hospital and this butterfly landed in front of me.

And it

But for that moment, like I could have just looked at it and be like, whatever, back to my panic attack.