IFS-Informed EMDR: Creative and Collaborative Approaches

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Jeanette’s tears kept flowing, wondering what she had done wrong, how did this happen?She watched as blood gushed out through her wrist. She knew she was on her last legs, & she couldn’t have it any other way. It was for the best. Her daughter would have to understand.** *** **A few hours ago, she, & her friend were delivering two women in the same ward, both of them as professional nurses had taken it upon themselves to deliver the babies since she was a mid-wife & her friend just a nurse, but knew the job well as she had been a nurse for over a decade & already knew the procedure.The woman her friend was helping deliver bore twins, identical girls; but hers gave birth to only one. All of the babies were girls. As they walked to the babies ward to dress the babies, she realized hers wasn’t making sounds anymore. Getting to the baby’s ward, Jeanette realized the baby wasn’t breathing anymore.Her: “Leticia the baby is not moving.”She said to her friend, terrified & already panicking. Leticia immediately placed the twins down & walked to her friend who was already crying.”Jeanette calm down!”She said softly trying to calm her friend down as she took the dead baby from Jeanette’s hands. She soon realized the baby indeed was dead.”The baby is dead.”She said to Jeanette, herself already shaking. Jeanette had swiftly sat down at the corner of the room crying, a few babies in the ward were already crying like they could sense it all.”Jeanette this happens, let’s just… I don＊t know ＃take care of it?”※Take care of it? How? Leticia the baby is dead.”※I have a plan.” Leticia responded to her frightened friend.A few minutes later, Leticia & Jeanette had wrapped the dead baby in a black plastic, took one of the twins & registered her in place of the dead baby. They quickly took the black plastic with the dead baby to the back yard of the hospital, dug a hole & buried the baby, then quickly went back to the baby’s ward. Jeanette took the twin they had given to the woman whose child had died while Leticia took the other twin then off they went back & gave the two women their babies.The woman whose other twin baby had been stolen was the first to talk, thrilled to see her baby.”Oh thank you Jesus, she’s so cute, the way my tummy was so huge I thought I was going to deliver twins.”She said holding her baby. Jeanette uncomfortably smiled holding her tears looking at the woman they had stolen one of her children from.The woman with the dead child just held the stolen baby as hers, smiling, obviously joyful.※Very beautiful, she＊s my treasure.”She said with tears cascading her cheeks. Jeanette could no longer hold hers so she walked out leaving Leticia attending to the two ladies. She went straight home without looking back & arriving home she just sat down on the floor crying. How did it happen? What had she done?The next day Leticia didn’t spot Jeanette anywhere, unlike Jeanette, Leticia didn’t have any guilt conscience up in her sleeves, and she refused to feel guilt as all she did was help her friend. She had even moved on.Later that day at work it was announced that Jeanette was found lifeless by her neighbor, she cut her wrist; Leticia knew Guilt had killed her drastically, leaving her one year old baby girl.