SKY’S POV
Thursday’s session started with hockey, the way most of them did now, and somewhere in the middle of talking about playoff pressure, I asked her something I hadn’t planned to ask at all.
“Is it normal,” I said, “to depend on someone the way I’ve depended on you this year?”
She looked up from her notepad, a careful look crossing her face. “Define depend.”
“I don’t know. Needing someone’s voice in my head before a big moment. Feeling steadier just because they’re in the room. Noticing when they’re not.” I heard myself circling something without landing on it directly. “Is that part of recovery, or is that something else?”
“It can be both,” she said. “Early recovery often involves leaning on external support before you’ve built enough internal structure to hold the weight you
