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A Hockey Puck to the Chin is Play?!

Marilyn Hahn (Surrey, BC)
But the definition of play is elusive. While I think thinking is play, a client once declared a hockey puck to the face was play. I’ve had clients say they’re playing when daydreaming, gouging cardboard with a knife to Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer […]. Some laugh; others weep or swear. Some paint while others generate AI collages. So then, with so many variations of play unfamiliar to my own sense of play, how am I to facilitate this healing play for each client?

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