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Old May 24, 2010, 09:23 AM
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Make a plan, it will help a little bit as a distraction, as well as being practical. Picture yourself further out and how well you will be doing and some of what "new" you will be doing (what are your goals for 5 years from here, for example). Ask your T is you can send him a letter in a year (or 6 months) telling him how you are doing and come up with something you would like to be doing at that time to tell him about (a future goal).

If you have enough time, get a new T and start seeing them for the last session or two so you overlap a bit and can discuss how you feel you'll do with the new T, etc. as you discuss what you learned with the old. In other words, kind of bridge the two experiences. Write out now what you are working on, what is still hard for you with this T, as well as the various things you have learned and resolved. Try to get an overall picture of your life from the last 10 years and forward through the next 10. Use the fact that it's 2010 and remember how things were as well as how you'd like them to be and what you are doing to get there.
Thanks for this!
garden gal