I think this is when I am able to talk after being really triggered, it's because T really works with me to keep me "there" enough to get some of it out.

Sometimes, the trigger is too big and I'm not ready yet. It seems like T knows when that's happening, and he just helps me get grounded without talking about it. I think even when that happens there is forward movement...because we're triggered, the big overwhelming feelings are there, but in the end, we're safe and there is someone who cares helping us through it.

If I REALLY want to try to get the words out, sometimes I will write them for T. Sometimes I will tell him a teeny tiny bit and then ask him to tell me something (like what he had for lunch). And then I tell him a little bit more and we work through it that way.

Being triggered is the worst, and I'm sorry you had to deal with those big feelings. Healing is hard work