Dear Cheri,

I appreciate your note - thank you! I'm sorry that you've struggled with this as well, but it sounds like you've come up with some good ideas that worked for you over time. It also sounds like it helped to have some Ts with different approaches and working styles, and that helped, too. I'm glad that the T you see now is more warm and chatty, and it sounds like it is working out better. :-)

I, too, wish my current T were a little more flexible on this front, but I think there is probably also merit to what he is saying, if I can find better ways of speaking aloud. I did manage to speak aloud more in the long run previously. I just need to find some way to more quickly get over the hurdles of trust and fear now, I guess. Maybe that is what it is. I'm not sure.

Thanks to you and everyone here for listening.

Take care,
ErinBear