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Old Aug 17, 2010, 02:02 AM
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Oh no It definitely sounds like your T is not feeling centered and wise. You did say she seemed not like her normal self earlier. I think you're handling this very admirably, btw.

It seems to me that your T went from one extreme to another because of one thing you said in a session about it all going too fast and feeling like a violation. She probably heard that, pondered it all week, and came in to your session with a plan of attack. When what you were really saying is, "I need breaks from this sometimes." Maybe sometimes you DO want to go in and talk about managing triggers. And maybe sometimes you want to tell a little more of the story. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

Maybe you can tell your T you want something in the middle of the two approaches? Use her own teachings against her -- use words like dialectic, "not black and white," etc. Haha.
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