This is my portrayal of Triggered distress in a young child during play therapy. This training allowed me to envision the ways children can mirror broken relationships, parenting styles, and attachments and how observing something such as domestic abuse, assault, violence, etc., can be what they absorb to make meaning of something that developmentally they are unable to process. The sponge serves as a representation of different things that were acted out in this scenario. Maya acts out the ways her father, not only abused her but also her mother. The mirror serves as a broken foundation (what she was raised in and saw), while the sponge serves as what is taken in and poured out. The eye is looking out through the broken glass, emphasizing the power of what children see and how it can affect their development.
Broken Mirrors by Florence Kyomuhendo
