Seriously? It's never been an issue with any of the T's I've worked with. I think there's a difference between stone cold lack of feeling/inaccessible feelings and feeling something ranging from a little tickle to a torrent. No one has ever evaluated the intensity of my feelings. I don't think I've ever had a torrent of feeling in T, maybe approaching it at times. But in my experience, the intensity of my feelings is tied to my ability to articulate it, in the reverse. If I have some emotional space between myself and talking about "it", then my emotions are not as intense.

Actually, my current T has encouraged me in techniques, mostly mindfulness ones, that allow me to approach big, ugly, scary stuff with less intense emotions, because it allows me to talk more about it and my feelings. The emotion is still there, it's not cut off, but it's not so strong its dysfunctional.

But I know what you mean. Some folks here do talk about getting to some kind of "original" feeling that is tied to the trauma(s). Where the intensity might have been the same as it was at the time. Maybe that makes sense for a goal for some folks, but it's not for me. I don't feel I need to cry and wail and scream to get better.

I thought SD was talking about having any feeling, or being able to experience ongoing daily life kind of feeling things. But maybe that is what she meant. In which case, I'd say reevaluate that goal and see if it makes sense for you.

Anne