Using Soft Toys To Help Healing?

[barefoot]

Has anyone ever taken their soft toy to therapy sessions? Was it helpful to do so?

 

[The ANP]

I take my teddy bear with me for all sorts of scary stuff including therapy sometimes. It helps me but I am ok with it.

 

[Changing4Best]

I have a baby doll that I bought so I could cuddle her, she is a life sized baby doll, wears infant sized 0-3 months cloths and usually sits on my couch. She freaked out my neighbor. I cannot bring myself to cuddle her much, but I have a few times. I'm usually home alone, so I don't know why I feel uneasy cuddling her, but I just do. I have never been able to have children, and miscarried 7 times. I bought her to ease that sorrow. However, I just cannot bring myself to cuddle her or play with her. Maybe I will do so today. I love changing her cloths and I buy cloths for her sometimes and I look at cloths for her in stores, even though I don't always plan to buy them. I have bought her a Mini Mouse Onesie, a summer dress, underwear, but no diapers. I somehow could not bring myself to buy a bunch of those. I also buy things for her at Thrift Stores.

On another note, my therapist has a BUNCH of stuffed toys in her office. Like 20 of them! They are in the waiting room and in her office. I never did ask her if she counsels children, so I don't know if that is why, but I kind of like having them around when I am in her office. They comfort me somehow.

 

[Sandstone]

I've taken one or more pandas to assessments and dentists appointments, and to a couple of therapy sessions, but usually found that just knowing they wee with me was enough to be soothing. I did introduce them to my last T, because they were "participants" in my therapy.

 

[jaccat]

Never took mine to therapy, but once when I was struggling I took one of mine to work. I didn't take him out of my bag, but at break I was able to sit with my bag on my lap, holding and stroking him, which was comforting.

 

[Tinyflame]

When my mom was dying there was this funny stuffed dog with floppy legs and big eyes that I would put on her bed, in a different funny pose every day and make her split with laughter.

So after that I was always good with it (because she was good with it.)

' Bit of softness in a cruel harsh world'. ;) :)