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On Friday, my T asked me: "What can I do to make you feel more safe in here?"

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My T asked me that once. I told him the lights in his office were too bright for me and I would feel safer with fewer lights on. (I had already asked him to turn certain lights off on previous occasions.) He turned all the lights/lamps off except for one. I told him it was still too bright. So he turned the last one off, and since the sun had already gone down, it was suddenly pitch black in his office. I started laughing and so did he. I said "I don't think this is going to work." And he turned that one light back on again, and we made do with that. Later, as I felt safer with him, I was able to tolerate more lights. Heck, I'm weird, what can I say! (Eventually, I was able to trace this back to a dream I had about T after I had only seen him for one session. In it, we were alone in his office and the lights were very dim. It felt really good and safe. I kept trying to recreate that.)

Phones in Guatamala!

RACEKA, my T tells me that stuff takes its own time to come out in therapy. We are never ready to share everything on the first day. As time passes, we can reveal more and more to our T's. This is typical. You're doing great!