Your question reminds me of something I posted a while ago (
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I'm pretty sure it was Fritz Perls, the Gestalt guy, who said (though I can't find where he said it): suppose someone came to him because their hand was always in a fist and they couldn't seem to open it. If he worked with them, he'd first get them to make an even tighter fist. As they learned how to do that, they'd also be learning how to open their hand.
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It sounds to me as if you actually feel two ways about sharing your emotions: you want to
and you don't want to. As long as you identify with "want to" and resist "don't want to", you're likely to feel as though some invisible force is holding you back in spite of yourself.
What does it feel like when you say to yourself, "I don't want to talk about my feelings"? What do you think would happen if you were to say that to your therapist?