Just like Sunny said... keeping it light.

I used to tend to move towards the intellectual in therapy to avoid having to feel. I also felt that since I am going to school to be a T, I should talk with my T like a colleague. Now that I have made the move to in depth talking involving the feeling of emotion, I started to go under the pretense that every session had to be deep

There was one particular session that we had on a Saturday and I wanted to avoid certain topics at all costs because I felt good that weekend and I didn't want to deal with negative emotions. I told this to T, and I also told him how I was torn up about this because I thought at this point we were always "supposed" to be discussing the deep, painful stuff.

T told me that it's okay to keep it light sometimes. We ended up talking about my birds, my baking, etc. I just enjoyed being in his presence. The thing about therapy is that even the most basic process of it can be therapeutic in itself. And even when you do decide to keep it light, stuff does come out. You can make therapy out of anything.