It is my experience nothing ever just "goes away;" if it is important it will come back. Our minds/bodies/selves are so good at regulating that we take them for granted and don't "see" it, thinking our heads are in charge and can command the whole show. LOL! The enormity of the work your mind and body is doing without talking to your thinking/talking head is iceberg huge.

Were I you, pinksoil, I would call your T just for the "exercise" on Friday, just because it is difficult. It doesn't have to be the perfect conversation or solve all your problems, etc.; you're new at it so it will probably disappoint you in its banality and your inability to say anything much. But I recommend giving it a try? It's all connected and calling your T like he asked in the last session will kind of help with what happened in the last session, even if it is all "underground" for the moment. Think of yourself as a subway with some parts in the inner city underground and other parts in the suburbs (or, in New York, the "El") above ground.