I understand 'rehearsing sessions' and going in with this plan of how it will go and what I will and most importantly what I *won't* say in session. I am well guarded and my walls are firm. But, the stuff that I've rehearsed, takes away the true emotional piece of therapy. And the firm walls are blocking out what really has to be tackled. Thus I DO leave feeling like I didn't get much done because my walls blocked it all.

My BEST sessions have been when I walked in ready to talk about one thing that's been well rehearsed, and T blind-sides me with a completely different topic that I wasn't ready for. Because then truth comes out and real work begins.