Dear Dr. Blank, I hope that this is your number and that I have arrived at the right place.
This is Yf’at. Eight years ago, we came to you with our adolescent girl following an exhausting journey between psychologists, therapists, and social workers that left us only with a sense of impotence and despair.
To us, the meeting with you was an act of rescue. Throughout all the years since then, I just try to put into words the deep gratitude that we have for you.
Since then, our girl enlisted in a selected armed forces unit and completed her military service successfully. Today, she works and thrives guiding and training a sports team. She also volunteers with autistic children.
I thank you because in a world gone upside down, you were a brave voice of reason not afraid to go against the current, including your professional colleagues, and backed us up, gave us back our parental authority, and mainly returned our faith in the system by way of a meeting with a person like you, who despite all the titles and books and international success has not forgotten that first of all, she is on a mission.
I hope you read these words, and I am ashamed that I did not dare to write them to you until today.
You probably do not remember me, but I am one mother, surely one among many mothers whom you saved – nothing less. I love you and thank you very much.
