I've had the same experience of my hands being shaky, and also texting like crazy while I wait to go into the session, that kind of made me laugh because I do that every week just about.

I used to sit & just dig my nails into my hands or arms but once T realized I was doing that & saw the marks I was leaving on myself from my nails she pointed out all the stress "toys" she has, too. A lot of times she will hand me silly putty, that stuff is great because you can tear and rip it or pull it or squeeze it, whatever. She also has koosh balls & stress balls & all kinds of stuff.

I have started my own little collection of "toys" here at home & keep some in my purse, too, after finding out in session how helpful that can me, although the 1st time I was like, why would she give me silly putty to hold, I'm not one of her adolescent clients, I don't need that. I learned.

I'd be interested to know what kinds of stress toys people use, I wonder if we should start another thread for that?