I'm a little different than some as far as the eye-contact thing; I feel more vulnerable with my eyes shut. I find if I look at my T, and see that she is simply calmly and compassionately waiting, with a quiet, caring look in her eyes, I find that somehow that can often make a feeling of safe, emotional intimacy that helps me share. One thing I do often when talking of hard things, though I do look her in the eye, is that I clutch the pillow on the chair hard to myself....somehow that keeps me grounded, I don't know exactly why.
Sometimes, I journal and put it in there.....'I need to talk about this, but it's hard.' I sometimes use my writing as a means of safer-feeling disclosure of painful, intense emotions, dealing with them poetically/intellectually.....but I know my T wants me too to stop so carefully planning my words or how I will disclose something and just learn to say what is in my heart/mind, simply speak the feeling as it is rather than wrap it in careful words before presenting it to her.
I wish you much courage and grace, Suratji.....it will be OK, and your T will be OK with what you say, too.
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