The Draw
- Liz Alvarez
- Nov 24
- 5 min read
Our body is built for survival.
Not because it’s strong but because it is relentlessly protective.
Inside every one of us, billions of white blood cells patrol like guardians.
They don’t wait for permission, they don’t ask who caused the threat, they don’t hold meetings or write reports they detect danger and respond.
Think like the Navy Seals of the body, They protect the vulnerable tissue behind them at all cost!
White blood cells don’t need applause or authority.
Their only job is simple: “If something threatens the organism, remove it.”
And that’s what mothers are. That’s what parents are. That’s what communities are supposed to be.
Nature built us with the blueprint.
It’s the system that keeps forgetting it.
Because a mother’s protection functions exactly like the immune system:
• Intuition fires up your ability to see pattern recognition
• Your body starts to signal this is not safe
• The hairs on your neck start to rise for you to prepare to defend, speak
• On cue your body automatically shield the child
• Secured memory bank → “we don’t let this happen again”
White blood cells don’t gaslight themselves.
They don’t say “maybe I’m overreacting.”
They don’t ignore alarms because someone else is uncomfortable.
They are programmed to protect life.
And any organism that silences its immune system dies from the inside out.
So when a child is in danger emotionally, physically, psychologically, spiritually
the entire body goes Navy Seal mode and protects.
I am here today to do just that, expose exactly why our systems fail children,
why these network fails,and why collectively we must become the immune system the institutions refuse to be the weak leaks. Yet, the evolving force thats in our nature.
Protective. Perceptive. Relentless.
If you ever find yourself in this kind of battle, I feel for you.
Some evaluations are court-ordered.
Some you push for yourself like I did because you KNOW something is happening that needs daylight.
And when you walk into these rooms, the pressure to “perform” is real.
Here’s the truth,
Performance only feeds the illusion.
Shrink, and youll miss the top
Adapt to their energy, expect to feel drained.
Stay grounded and stay true, sit back and wait for the big bang.
Because in unknown territory, truth is your compass and once you suddenly see all the hands around you and taking risk no longer feel risky but natural. Not to fear them.
But to understand exactly how they operate.
For Parents Walking Into This Battle These things aren’t “wrong,” but they are informational.
Here is what I walked into the office.
The place that was supposed to function like another layer of the body’s immune system,
another line of defense for my daughter, the “white blood cell” on the front line.
Note this, the moment you park in the drive, all eyes on you. From the moment we arrived, I was prepared, with the same biological intelligence every parent has,that heightened sensing a mother instinct that kicks on like a floodlight. Because the system has taken your child's cry to lightly.
Your body shifts into "navy seal mode"
Every tone, timing, silence, posture, changes in the air the same way white blood cells detect heat changes around an infection.
The room was clean.
The office was polished.
Everything looked exactly the way a system wants it to look
when it wants parents to calm down and stop noticing.
But the delivery did not match the title.
The protection isn’t in the degrees, nor the amount of years you are in the field, .
It’s in the energy, the attunement, the responsiveness
and that was missing the way oxygen goes missing in a sealed room. Or worse, if it goes missing in open air.
Parents:
If you’ve had an evaluation or elsewhere, please consider leaving a review. Forensic offices rarely have public review, and your experience may help protect another family. Transparency matters in child safety cases.
The Process
In the beginning when you arrive expect
• A long verbal interview
• 300+ true/false questions
• More questions on an iPad
Question are trivial and repetitive.Regardless of the matter, aim truthfully.
When something depends on context pay attention, and mark it permanently.
The Meeting
A true professional greets you with care, presence, and clarity. Pay attention to this.
The greeting tells you exactly what ecosystem you’ve stepped into.
The Interview
You’ll sit across from them and share your story.
They have their script their structure, their pre-set categories
but you must share what isn’t in their script.
Arrive with the nuance. Arrive with the context.Remember the timeline. Show the patterns.
My session lasted 2–5 hours.
The Questions
After the interview, you’ll get a long questionnaire roughly 300+ True or False to fill in.
Expect the following
• “Are you happy?”
• “Do you feel special?”
• “Do you trust others?”
• “Do you ever feel like someone is out to get you?”
• “Do you sometimes feel misunderstood?”
None of the are questions profound.
Many feel stupid.
Some feel like someone copy-pasted them from 1952.
I used pen for permit answers
And pencil for answers that had that “it depends” feeling
because in real life, context matters.
Then comes the iPad portion
• shorter questions
• faster responses
• 1952 playbook
• more “vibe check”.
November 17th 2025 I gave the evaluator the images below are some examples of the art work my child shared on my work notebook





November 17th THE CHILD’S EXPERIENCE
1. The Playroom
They watch you interact with your child.
Don’t perform.
Don’t stage.
Be real.
Truth always outperforms performance.
2. The Separation
Your child goes in alone.
You wait outside.
Sometimes in a room.
Sometimes suddenly moved to a public area.
Notice:
• Tone shifts
• White noise machines when no one else is present
• The atmosphere tightening
• Silence patterns
3. The Silence Pattern
Loud → quiet → loud → quiet.
This means:
• discomfort
• tension
• emotional cycling
• or suppression
A child should feel safe.
Instead, mine felt pressure.
She told me afterward:
“The evaluator didn’t really care.”
That sentence told me everything evaluation notes won’t.
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THE SECONDARY SILENCE EFFECT
Children don’t say:
“I’ve been conditioned.”
They express it through:
• withdrawal
• metaphors
• art
• coded jokes
• sudden fatigue
• hyper-compliance
This is a survival pattern —
not personality.
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THE ARTWORK (examples)
(insert your images here)
These drawings were disclosures.
Visual testimony.
Signals.
And still — the system shrugged.
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FINAL MESSAGE TO PARENTS
Record everything.
Follow the 3+ Pattern Rule.
Patterns never lie.
They only reveal.
Speak what is true.
Even if it’s uncomfortable.
Even if it disrupts the room.
Especially then.
You’re not here to win the evaluator.
You’re here to defend your child.
And truth — real truth — doesn’t need permission.
It only needs a witness who refuses to look away.
Your instincts matter.

