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Originally Posted by rainbow8
We talked about what sunrise posted to me about being close to her T even though they don't talk about their relationship. She said that was true. She doesn't disappear. That was my comment that she doesn't disappear; we still have our close relationship no matter what we talk about, and she still cares about me.  |
Yay!! Glad you brought that up.
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Originally Posted by rainbow8
I brought my old diary, started when I was 8 1/2.
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That sounds like an amazing tool for therapy. Even if you didn't write a lot about your feelings in it, it can still help your own mind return to those earlier times, and maybe be a catalyst for remembering events and feelings from that time. The first diary I kept was when I was about 11 and I remember writing a lot of stuff in it about boys (starting to enter the boy crazy phase) and I think also some stuff about how awful my mother was. If I could find this diary, I do not think I would want to bring it to therapy. For some reason, the thoughts of my 11 year old self seem embarrassing to me, like I don't want to admit I had those thoughts.
P.S. I have the diary of my grandmother, who is dead. It was during the depression and later the war, and she wrote about stuff like how many jars of peaches she canned that day (she lived on a farm). Even though it was practical stuff, I found it interesting! Maybe your daughters would like to look at it one day.