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Date: 25 January 2007 14:59:14
Sometimes work seems like a good thing. I have just spent an hour with a client who I have been working with since October 2004. When we started our work she was on a methadone prescription, still using illicit drugs and on a probation treatment order. Today she has been clean from all illicit drugs, prescribed drugs, alcohol and tobacco for nine months and she is such an inspiration. She is three weeks younger than me and last year we shared the trauma of turning 30. In her appointments we have laughed and cried together over her progress and the changes that have happened throughout the two years. I feel that as a practitioner her reflective approach to treatment has encouraged me to try and treat my clients with more dignity. I will really miss working with her, and I suspect that discharging her is as hard for me as it is for her. I am absurdly proud of her achievements and her progress and I hope and pray that she will continue to move on and begin to truly Live Life. All I hope for is that I can make a difference in the work that I do with my clients and in this case I believe that I have.