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It means to nurture to play to read to feed to love to tickleto talk to play to nurture to feed to laugh to read tolook at the trees from a different angle to hear the birds to playto feed to love to rock to sleep to cry to laugh to change the diaper again tosing songs to read to play with the catto learn the puzzle to listen to the songs to chew the toy to feel tired to be happy tobe tired to be overwhelmed to be hungry to be tired to rock to sleep to sing thelullaby to love and love and love and love.
Andrea Sheth, LCSW-R, is a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst in private practice. She attended the four-year Adult Training Program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, graduating in 2015. She has worked in several hospital- and community-based programs, primarily with patients who have extensive histories of childhood trauma. A lifelong reader of poetry, she is interested in the use of poetry in psychotherapy. Presently, she is raising her 1-year-old daughter.