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Originally Posted by feralkittymom
This sounds like she's saying "understanding" meaning a cognitive approach? I could see that as making some sense. If you were intellectualizing about an issue that is emotionally- based, could she have meant that the resistance is about avoiding feeling the emotion in the moment by wanting to "understand" it instead?
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there's plenty of emotion in my sessions. but on my own time, I do a lot of reading and thinking, circling around the problem, trying to make sense of it, and if that's intellectualizing, i don't know how to not do that, or what to do instead.
I can't sit down and bring up the sobs, I can't yell and scream and punch pillows; not many opportunities to do that in my circumstances.