Hi (((((((((((miss))))))))))))))

For me, we sometimes take a REALLY CONSCIOUS "break" from talking about any trauma from the past. EVEN if something in daily life completely relates to some trauma and that would be the best way to make sense of it, we just don't go there, period. I keep going to therapy, and maintaining the connection, and working on day-to-day stuff, but if anything even remotely related to "trauma" comes up, T steers us away from it.

We have done this when I've been in a really bad, almost-hospitalized place, or when my bad coping skills start overtaking my good coping skills. When I get overwhelmed. Thankfully, that seems to happen less and less. We also just took a very conscious break over the holidays. We had been talking about something that I just could not bear to deal with over the holidays, so we chose to consciously set it aside until later. If I started to drift towards that topic in session, T would help move us onto a different topic.

Generally, talk of traumas comes and goes. I supposed when I have a very intense session dealing with the past, I call that "trauma work", although you are right, Miss C, in reality it's ALL connected...

I did have multiple traumas, and T doesn't do EMDR or anything like that. It's all talk therapy for me...but I can feel myself growing and changing and healing.

editing to add: I do have PTSD, so these are things that need to be dealt with, as they affect my day to day life in so many ways. I do LOVE sessions where we manage to do deep work WITHOUT getting into traumas, though. We had one of those today...those are my favorite.

(((((((((((((((((((miss))))))))))))))))))) It's good to "see" you