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So far, the obsessing about my therapist and the sessions have quieted. I feel more in control of my emotions.... Now that I've embraced it rather than fight it kicking and screaming (as I did before). My feelings for him are returning to liking him as a therapist and respecting him and the process.

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That is so great to read that from you almedafan! Sounds like you are making lots of progress. It must feel great to have had the obsession subside. It's interesting how some of us struggle to control our emotions, as you wrote, and some of us (moi) struggle to loosen up our control and let ourselves feel things.

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I like to try to tell my inner child that I will never leave her. Do you ever tell your child that you will not leave him/her. He/she probably needs to hear that repeatedly and would like to be reminded that the adult you can protect him/her.

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Hopeful, this was something my T taught me how to do very early in our therapy, how to use my adult ego state to "rescue" and take care of a younger, little girl ego state of mine. It was very powerful to know I could do this. When bad memories of my childhood were hounding me, I would just step into the memories with my little girl and rescue her. It became very easy for me to do and would instantly relieve the trauma memories.

This is a little blurb which describes this therapeutic technique:
Phillips and Frederick (1995) and Frederick and McNeal (1998) have also applied these techniques successfully in work with individuals who suffer from a wide range of posttraumatic and dissociative difficulties. In addition, they have emphasized the use of mature ego states to assist in nurturing younger, less developed self-parts. These authors have also advanced the possibility of encouraging or completing the introjection of positive models of mature functioning in the patient's current life as well as identifying and reclaiming nurturing figures from past times marked by traumatic stress (Frederick & Kim, 1993). These and other self-interactive strategies can assist clients in significantly enhancing their capacities for self-nurturing.
(quote is from this article )