Both, I think.....I think she is wanting me to have a better metaphorical thought pattern about the armor and also to think about how to handle it in specific real situations. If I can learn a better way of thinking about it, a way to feel like it is separate from me and it's possible to take it off or bits of it, then I can learn how to do that in real life. I can learn what situations/people are safe to do it with, when it's safe, what parts are safe to take off....
In a sense, I take some of it off here on PC, but then no one here really 'sees' me, not physically anyway, doesn't walk/talk/live with me, so that makes it safe in some way....I need to learn how to do it with T, and in RL, too.....