I would have a hard time being forced to talk about something during the time I am paying for, especially when I have considered it, given it the old college try, and devoted some of our therapy time to it or to its discussion. The therapy minutes are just too precious and my wallet is not bottomless. If it were me, I might say, "I have considered mindfulness and may consider it further in the future. If I decide to practice mindfulness, I will not use you as a coach or mentor in this process, though, so we need to direct our time to using other skills and services you have to offer me." And perhaps give her an example to get her mind thinking in a forward direction and out of the mindfulness rut, such as "we did EMDR for trauma a few months ago and I really found that useful. I would like to do more EMDR on some remaining trauma.?"
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Originally Posted by KazzaX
The reason she keeps bringing it up is because I am supposed to "get in touch with my feelings" or something like that, and mindfulness is the only way (T says).
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This is not true. There are a number of ways to do this. "Getting in touch with my feelings" has been a huge benefit of therapy for me and we did not use mindfulness. I have done some mindfulness, though (I took a class in it), and getting in touch with feelings was not a benefit of this practice for me. (I got other benefits from it though, but not the feeling thing.)
Good luck. Hope you can put this issue to rest.