Hi Squiggle.......

So nice to have some good news for once. In response to your question......

"Can you explain how your empty chair work was done? How often have you done it?"

I only did it twice. First, there it was my brain talking to my heart.......or the logical part of my talking to the emotional part of me. It was very very awkward and hard for me to do(I'm not saying it doesn't work for people........just not me). My T had 2 empty chairs facing each other and I had to move from one to the other as I spoke the parts. I felt really stupid, I told my T this........I usually talk A LOT and this made me shutdown. So the second time we did it(this was much more effective for me) my T pretended to be someone from my past that I needed to talk to. I directed all my feelings at my T.........in that moment, being that person. He didn't say anything at all, but since I was talking to a person, that approach worked very well and was very healing. I haven't done it for awhile but with my new T I will tell him what works and what doesn't. A lot of people have a lot of success with it. It just didn't work for me unless I was talking to a real person........then it worked well.