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David:
Do you consider if you hadn't overcome this Problem from the past,
It (anorexia) would have taken over your life?
Lee-Marie: Yeah definitely!
David:
Where do you guess It would have taken your life to if you hadn't
overcome it?
Lee-Marie: I was thinking about that today and got so upset thinking that I
wouldn't be here alive. (vigorously shaking her head).
David:
Is the fact that you are here a testimony to you as a ten-year-old girl
and your mother and father and the family you come from?
Lee-Marie: Definitely! (uttered with absolute confidence).
David:
If you could acknowledge your ten-year-old self for overcoming a
Problem that could have taken your life away from you before you
had hardly lived it, what would you acknowledge your ten-year-old
self for?
Lee-Marie: Just to be thankful to that ten-year-old for overcoming it so that she
went on to lead the life I have led so far. It makes me really
appreciate my life.
David:
Is there anything in particular that you would like to appreciate her
for, now that you have 29 years to look back on her life?
Lee-Marie: Definitely the kids I've got today. They are the biggest things. And of
course, meeting my partner.
David:
You may not be aware that the Problem you overcame as a ten-yearold would have been regarded at that time as almost impossible to
overcome. What was so remarkable about you and the family you
come from that you did so in merely 60 minutes?
Animative Descriptions and Vivifying Discovery: Inviting Clients Into The Marvel Of Their Understory
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, May 2026 Release, p. 52-79.
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