Sunny's post in another thread made me think about this, how sometimes our unconscious seems to jump ahead of our own awareness and lets T know what we need in therapy. This really is an amazing concept! I think that our unconscious influences certain things in therapy that T picks up on, like body language, but how else can the unconscious let a T know what it is we need?

My T has seemed very attuned to my feelings from the get-go, so I wonder if she sometimes picks up on feelings that aren't even on my radar yet, at least at the conscious level. T will sometimes make an observation that won't resonate with me for another week or two.

I have my session this evening. While journaling this morning, I was reflecting upon T's comment last week that we are at an important place right now in therapy. I was thinking about why I think that's true, and also wondering why T said it - so I'm going to ask her more about it tonight. As soon as I made that decision, some emotional floodgates opened, and this intense feeling coursed through my body - it started in my stomach, as if it were filled with thousands of butterflies, and then traveled through my body - whoa! And now, every time I think about having that convo with T tonight, that feeling starts again. I didn't even think it was that important of a talking point until this feeling came up in me - I really think it's my unconscious, that it knows something that I'm not yet aware of, and that maybe whatever it is that's causing this intense feeling is near the surface of my consciousness. After last week's incredible session, I feel really safe with T, and I'm wondering if that safe feeling is helping me be more open to letting this feeling come up and not just stuffing it back down. And it's interesting that I only have this safe feeling because T told me last week that she'd be there for me, and she reassured me that she understands how I'm feeling, without me even having to ask her to do that. The feeling definitely has a scary element to it, a fear of the unknown, but I'm also very intrigued and want to know what's causing it, so I'm going to do my best to be very open with T about it tonight.

So if you've had this experience, of your unconscious letting your T know what you need before you were even aware that this is what you needed, what did that look like? How long did it take before you realized that this was what was happening?