This morning at the attachment and trauma center Younger Boy continued work on his timeline.

Today he added "bio mom's boyfriend" to the story.  Both Therapist C and I were a little bit confused, because Bio Mom and Bio Dad were married the entire time as far as we knew.  He also added a couple more events to the timeline.  Both of the events involved Older Boy.

He asked Therapist C why they write the timeline and story.  She told him they write the timeline in order to get the big memories out so he can feel better about them.

There were a few times he was teary-eyed today.  We talked about events in life being lucky and unlucky and that the things which happen to a kid are usually just that...lucky and unlucky...not anything they caused themselves.  Sure, he was angry, but he had eight years of confusion building up which came out as anger.

She asked Younger Boy if he knew this was "not his fault".  He said, "Yes, but..." and couldn't finish the sentence.

Over the course of the session it became quite obvious he has a VERY DEEP rooted anger for Older Boy.  This anger and blame are the next things we are going to address with EMDR.

Praises for a good therapist.