(((((((Sunrise))))))) Thank you so much for sharing your sessions...
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This is the 3rd week in a row I've seen T.  |
This is so nice! How did it happen that your T set the sessions? Just curious...
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I wanted to share with T a phone conversation I had with my H last week. It seemed noteworthy and worth exploring. I felt good about the conversation while it was happening and when it was over. So while I was telling T about this, I got very sad and had to stop talking as the sadness came over me.
I expect sadness to be done. T has experience with layers upon layers. I am scared to ask him, how long is this going to take? I think that's why he's increased me to meeting weekly again--lots more stuff coming up. If I were my T, I would be very bored with me by now. I'm bored with me.
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I can relate to how multiple emotions will come up. Often with my former T I would talk about an event and have an initial emotion about it and would find that other emotions would accompany it. For example I would find myself overwhelmed by both gratitude and profound loss at the same time- gratitude for feeling safe and getting help, loss for all of the ways my needs were not met in so many ways. Feelings and events are complicated and all the facets of the events lead to many different emotions.
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He also shared again (last session too), about his own marriage, which I find helpful. We have some striking similarities in our marriages and their break-ups. It makes me feel a little better about my efforts because even T, with all his relationship skills, could not have success in his own (first) marriage.
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I have found the use of self disclosure on the part of my T to be very helpful and healing. This is *I think* the part where it is the relationship that is the healer... At least for myself that has been true.
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Draining session. Nice hug on the way out.  |
Sounds like a hug was definitely in order.
Take care...