Thanks, skysblue. My T went to a workshop about SE so, for the last 2 weeks she has been asking me how my body feels more than she used to. I don't like "body" questions. Like: is there any part of your body that feels good right now? (that was after I felt so sad doing EMDR).

During my session Tuesday she told me about SE and showed me how it works with a slinky. I tuned it all out because I was upset, though. She told me I could read online about Peter Levine and SE so I did. It seems to make sense.

She always used to ask me how my body feels because that fits in with her therapy style, but now she is going to ask me more! She says we will go slow with the EMDR because I "get lost in the past" and that's not good for me. I reluctantly agree with that today, now that I have thought about it a lot. So, i put my toe in, then she will stop and ask how my body feels. Slowly, she says.

I guess we are doing trauma work though I never accepted that I had any. She thinks I did, and that's okay. I certainly felt awful when we did EMDR about her leaving me! She's going to incorporate this SE stuff into the EMDR is the way I understand it. I'm not against knowing how my body feels once I get past the yuck of "my body". I think SE will get me to cry with my T instead of simply saying "I feel sad." That is a goal of mine so maybe it will happen. I told her I feel in my brain and she says the trauma is stored in my body. I think that's what Levine says.