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Old Apr 04, 2007, 12:14 PM
pinksoil
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I am right there with you. My T always calls me back the same day that I call him. Well, I called a few weeks ago and he didn't get back to me until the next day. Then I had a lot of time to stew in it, and also feel stupid and ashamed for calling to share my feelings. There can be many reasons why your T hasn't emailed you back yet. And as long as it's helping even in some small way, from emailing him, try not to feel ashamed.

Oh, and here's a suggestion to possibly becoming more open and honest with your T, and talking about feelings rather than occurrences. Do you write in a journal? If not, you can even print out some of your posts on here. My T told me to bring in my journal, and not to even feel like I have to open it if I don't want to. So I brought it in, and I kept in on my lap the whole time. I referred to it a few times to remember things I had thought of during the week, but mostly, I just held it. Just holding a book right there that contained my uncensored thoughts and feelings, facillitated more open and honest talk with T. To this day I sometimes hold my journal in my lap for the session if there is something very difficult in there that I want to talk about. It's a very powerful feeling to have all of your rawness right there in a book with T in the same room.