Founded September 2010, Mending Me,™ LLC is an Austin, Texas based company formed to provide products to aid in the treatment and healing of children. The Mending Me,™ LLC strategy is to provide therapists, providers and teachers a means of communication with children who have been abused, suffered trauma, or have special needs impacting their ability to communicate. Mending Me,™ LLC therapeutic
toys provide the child with an opportunity to select one of three toys. Each toy comes with a letter that introduces the toy to the child and sets the stage for the healing to begin. This simple action is a way of giving the child choice and control which the trauma, abuse, or condition has taken away. The child then has an opportunity to connect with the toy through play, enjoy and embrace the softness and comfort that it provides while at the same time displacing some of the emotional trauma he/she has experienced onto the toy. How are Mending Me,™ LLC Therapeutic Toys different? These plush therapeutic toys are not human like. There is a heart space that houses the heart and a Velcro pocket which holds the letter and provides an alternative space for the heart. The child has options when playing and communicating through this therapeutic toy. The heart was created with two sides, a broken side and a mended side and is encased in the heart space to represent the walls which can form when a child undergoes trauma. The therapeutic toys also provides an opportunity for a child to alert the provider asking for help, which can be concealed to the unknown observer. The pocket also provides a place for a child to insert a piece of paper and write messages to the therapist or others, which again can be their safe hiding place to the unknown observer. This unique feature of the toy allows the therapist to gain additional clues regarding how the child currently is feeling about him/herself. Each one of the plush toys was designed to promote healing for children of all ages.
