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        "rendered": "\u201cA child cannot talk about something they did not know how to name\u201d \u2014 Anastasiia Skydan, psychologist"
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        "rendered": "Anastasiia Skydan is a psychologist at our foundation who has worked with children during Recovery camp sessions since 2024.\n\n**\u2014 Why art therapy instead of a regular conversation?**\n\n\u201cA child who has experienced trauma often cannot talk about it in words. Not because they do not want to, but because they did not know how to name it. At age 8, there is no vocabulary for \u2018when I heard the explosion and could not breathe.\u2019 Drawing gives shape to what has not yet taken form.\u201d\n\n**\u2014 How do you know a child is starting to open up?**\n\n\u201cAfter 2\u20133 days, something changes on the physical level. At first, their shoulders are up by their ears, their posture is closed. Then I see that they are sitting normally. That they laugh at a joke. That they were the first to speak at lunch. Not right away about difficult things \u2014 about small things. But that is the sign that they have started to trust the space.\u201d\n\n**\u2014 What is the hardest part of your work?**\n\n\u201cThe first three days. When the children are angry, irritable, \u2018testing\u2019 the adults. We have to not react, not break the space. Hold safety without punishment. That is the most exhausting part.\u201d\n\n**\u2014 What gives you strength to continue?**\n\n\u201cThe seventh day. When the children do not want to go home. When they write letters to themselves \u2018for when things get hard.\u2019 When I see how their face has changed in a week. That is when I understand \u2014 it works.\u201d",
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