Just to update....I did end up sharing my new tat(s) with my T during our last session before her break. I decided to wait until closer to the end, when it seemed there was a lull (I think with a session like that, you feel so much pressure to get so much in, you know?) I just kinda whispered "it's gone." She said "what?" And I told her the words that made up the tattoo. "It's gone!" She about jumped out of her skin, "what did you? How did you? Let me SEE!!" I showed her. She grabbed my arm and stared at it for quite awhile, just amazed by it. I told her I feel free now (of that old tattoo). I believe she took it just as it was meant to be taken. She loved the new tattoo. Other people in my life...not so much, but I gotta learn not to care what others think. I've had people tell me I put myself through the physical pain to mask the emotional pain. I guess that's a better way to describe that's how my T might react. But she seemed to love it.