{"id":47689,"date":"2026-02-12T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/?p=47689"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:57:41","slug":"while-my-daughter-was-moving-forward-in-her-therapy-i-was-moving-forward-in-mine-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/while-my-daughter-was-moving-forward-in-her-therapy-i-was-moving-forward-in-mine-as-well\/","title":{"rendered":"While my daughter was moving forward in her therapy, I was moving forward in mine as well."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

We are sharing the testimony of the mother of an adolescent who participated in the adolescent and young adult program in Saint-Malachie<\/a>. Here, she writes a message of gratitude to Chantal, counsellor of our family support services<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Hi Chantal,<\/p>\n

I’m taking a moment tonight to write to you – a suspended moment between memory and gratitude.<\/p>\n

I probably have a small grieving process to go through about no longer receiving the Tuesday night Zoom invitations… and Gis\u00e8le* gently reminds me that it’s time to let go.<\/p>\n

But Tuesdays still bring me back to Portage.<\/p>\n

Because it was on a Tuesday that our story began. May 3, 2022. A blurry, heavy day – but forever etched in my memory.<\/p>\n

That day, I drove my child to the Portage centre in Saint-Malachie. My eldest, the one who taught me how to be a mother. I left her in your hands after she finally understood that she needed help. I entrusted her to you fragile, thin, pale, withdrawn, with so little confidence in herself… and over time, I watched her be reborn. I saw her emerge with that strength, that inner light, that I knew was hidden within her.<\/p>\n

And while my daughter was progressing in her therapy, without even realizing it at first, her mother was progressing in hers as well.<\/p>\n

Chantale (counsellor, Family Support Services<\/a>), I have immense gratitude for you.<\/p>\n

You never told me what I wanted to hear – you told me what I needed to hear. With honesty, with humanity, with your whole heart. Because of you, I became a new mother, a new woman… and even professionally, a transformed person. And that transformation did me a world of good.<\/p>\n

Thank you for everything you give and everything you are. Thank you to the entire Portage team for what you have done for my daughter and my family.<\/p>\n

Even if I’m no longer on the Zoom calls, know that I am never very far. Thank you for being there when everything felt like it was falling apart. Thank you for welcoming me, listening to me, and guiding me.<\/p>\n

You are now part of those chapters that changed the course of my story.<\/p>\n

Thank you for everything.”<\/p>\n

– Isabelle, mother of an adolescent from the Saint-Malachie Centre<\/a>, Family Support Group<\/p>\n

Names have been changed to protect client confidentiality.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo : Lili Kovac<\/p>\n

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