Okay, I have been thinking about this weird mental exercise my T suggested. We were discussing how I was never comforted as a child. I told him about waking up shrieking from a bad dream and my dad's solution when he came into the room was to swat me really hard so that I would be fully awake, and know it was just a dream.

So, T suggested that we picture me as a child in my room, sitting on my bed, and that he and I comfort that child. Ummmmmm. He said that he and I were a team and we could work on this together (I had previously said that I wasn't sure how self comforting worked, felt like I just didn't know what or how to do it). He wants he and I to go into the room and sit on the bed with that child in my head, and comfort the child, so the child experiences comfort and not pain or weird, creepy sexual stuff from adults. So, we tried a little, and he told me to picture the child and then he asked me for permission to just enter the room. I was like, "whatever." He actually wants permission to come in the room. So I said ok, but I'm not sure how feel about this exercise.

This just sounds so stupid to me. Am I just being too intellectual and too much of an attorney? Have any of you tried this kind of thing? Isn't it creepy? Does it help?