Annie's, I had similar problems where I kept trying to bring in books and get my T to read paragraphs that made me feel a certain way. Mine meant "no value" not in what I was saying but the way I was "saying" it in that I wasn't saying it at all. There's no emotion/"us" in the written words, they're just words on a piece of paper and could be true, false, fiction, etc., we don't have to "invest" ourselves in them or take any risks. If we want something from another person (other than a bank teller we're robbing :-) we have to ask them for it. No fair we write and be "safe" and the other person has to comment to us in person, risking themselves when we don't risk ourselves and we're the ones wanting something.

Take the e-mail you wrote her and read her one sentence per session :-) and then the two of you discuss just that one sentence?