(((((((((((Sunny))))))))))))))

I love that T is taking such good care of you.

Once, my T and I were talking about the different lengths of time that things took in therapy, and he said that grief work was the shortest...that people were almost always done with it in 7 weeks. We didn't talk much more about it (actually, thinking back, I think that it might have come up in relation to my own father's death), but something about that made it feel really "doable" to me.

I also really liked that he validated your feelings about your grief being "atypical". The thing I hate the most (by FAR) in therapy is when T doesn't understand where I'm at - and when he DOES get it, it's the best feeling in the world. No matter how horrible I'm feeling, if T really GETS how horrible I'm feeling, and I can feel that he gets it, it's like a weight lifted off of my shoulders.

I don't think T would be leading you into the grief work if he thought it would make things worse for you. My guess is that getting to the bottom of what's going on and really letting yourself feel what you're feeling will give you a sense of peace.

to you