They tried two more therapists before coming across EMDR therapy, which stands for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. 'Navigating this journey has not been an easy one,' Gladys Gonzalez admitted. Gladys Gonzalez said she knew early on her daughter would need therapy and sought out help at the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center, but said her daughter only regressed. She said she knew all of the victims, which included some of her closest friends, Jackie Cazares, Eliahana Cruz Torres and Annabell Rodriguez. 'I have PTSD.'Ĭaitlyne Gonzalez remembers the sound of the gun shots as they rang out, the heavy police presence, and broken glass as she was rushed to a nearby funeral home. 'I'm a survivor from Robb Elementary,' Caitlyne Gonzalez said. It took nine months for Caitlyne Gonzalez to feel safe enough to sleep without her mom by her side. 'She had re-occurring nightmares and an increase in anxiety,' Gladys Gonzalez said. She's done her best as a mother to keep her daughter, Caitlyne Gonzalez, occupied. 'I just feel Iike we have been stuck on May 24,' Gladys Gonzalez said. Her family dynamic was turned upside down on May 24, 2022, when a gunman walked into Robb Elementary school, took 21 lives, and left a community terrorized. 'Karate, guitar lessons, Girl Scouts, gymnastics I'm sure I'm forgetting a few things,' Caitlyne's mom, Gladys Gonzalez, said.

The 11-year-old fifth grader pulled out her phone, picked out a song, and began to play the keys she's been practicing on a piano she was gifted. On a Tuesday afternoon after school, nearly a year since the massacre, Caitlyne Gonzalez jumped up eagerly to showcase her new piano skills. The tragedy left a generation of young students and parents searching for a sense of safety and peace. One year ago, a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two teachers dead and changed the lives of a quiet town 15,000 people call home.

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