I used to hate waiting between sessions too until I realized I was the only one making me wait. there was no reason I HAD to wait to do therapy work. Just because there are so many days between seeing my therapist doesn't mean I can't work on things on my own and by working on things on my own I actually moved forwards faster. See I was seeing my therapist for one hour and in between were 168 hours between my sessions. which was a weekly schedule. yea that was 168 hours I had to wait but finding the positive side in it that was 168 hours that I could do some work on my own to take in to my next session. So I thought about a question that my therapist asked me that question was - "What is La La Land like?" and then I wrote a poem about it, and took some construction paper, a box, glue and scissors and made a diarama (3D version of it in a box). When I was done I only had one day left before I saw my therapist.

So then I started doing projects every week between my sessions and man did I move forwards fast. My therapist would ask questions and I would comeup with creative projects around that question and so on and one day after we had to choose a new therapist my new therapist LL said that I was about 10 years ahead of any of her other clients with DID that had been actively working for the past three years. Some how SKR and I had crammed 10 years of therapy work into three years.

Right now I see LL every two weeks but sometimes as many as five weeks go by between our sessions and what keeps me together dduring that time frame is thinking about one of her questions and challenging myself to do more work on it on my own by writing about it or doing an art project around that question. partly because it makes the time beween sessions go faster and it also helps me to understand what is going on with me better and partly because I know therapy isn't just walking in a therapy room and blabbing for one hour and then drop everything that I learned in that room that hour for the rest of the week and try and pick it back up after I walk back into the therapy room 7-14 days later. Therapy is walking into therapy blabbing and learning about myself for an hour and then taking that with me out the door and applying it to my life outside or the therapy room so that I do have a better life outside the therapy room. Only I can change my life outside the therapy room and how to do that if I really want to is to apply what I learn in therapy to my life outside of therapy. So instead of dropping things as I walk out the door I bring the therapy home with me and continue to work on it and apply it at home.

Maybe you can do this too. think about what you are working on in the last session and journal or using other types of art therapy such as diarama's, clay, painting, drawing, collage, and so on to create a version of that issue you are working on in the therapy room.

hang in there.