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Old Oct 18, 2011, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Squiggle328 View Post
We spent months and months working on the past. Hurts, disappointments, failed marriage, religious issues that caused me great turmoil, fears, etc.... Yes, we spent A LOT of time digging into the past. I hated it. I hated every minute of it until I had a breakthrough with each of them.

It was worth every heartache I had to go through by reliving those things. I still have more to work through, but I have come a very long way! Talking about my everyday life is proving to be hard as well. I keep thinking that the things I say are not that important, yet she sees them as major things. Don't really get that, but I am trusting her that this is an important stage of my therapy progress.
I think you must be really good at therapy if you had all those break throughs. I'm not that good at it. I felt a few break throughs in couples therapy, but never in individual therapy. I guess it must work differently for everyone. I'm trying not to expect big changes or break throughs now and just appreciate whatever little helpful comments I hear. I think that's good your therapist wants to talk about present and past with you.