Great thread! I have been in therapy for five years now and the sarge to talk with others about my process and my business has decreased.
I find now that I ask myself why I need to share this deep and meaningful stuff with a colleague who really does not understand or could use it as ammunition at a later stage.
A big part of my going to therapy was learning to trust again and to trust the right people. This has been very helpful to me because I now look at a persons whole behaviour and not just the last conversation where they happened to be very nice but for a specific reason. I have learned to recognise others agendas more clearly and to see that some information would not be helpful to share with them. I guess I am more selective about who and what I share things with. In some ways, I have closed off but in other ways when somebody nourishes and cares for me and about me I will be fully open and blossom with them. This has been a challenge in itself as I have closed off to some of my therapist friends I am training with because I can see that they clearly had their own agendas all along and sometimes the truth hurts.
I know I can never open up to my mother about anything because she will use information for her own advantage,
I also learned that with my ex t to hold my feelings and contain my thoughts until my next appointment. She thought me a lot about behaviours and about people words matching their actions. Now I always am more careful who I open up to and what I share with them.

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