Hey couch back from t, good session again, we talked about last night's anger at h, we worked on that dream I shared with you guys recently, good stuff came out of that, she felt like the trainee t was part of me, my animus likely (the male 'part' of me), and so I did an active imagination sitting there in her office and talked to the young male trainee t. I told her I'd tried to do that several times to no avail, it never went anywhere. It was one of my more interesting Actives, because my stubborn-ness intruded so we got up and perused the sand play shelves for something to represent my stubborn-ness so we could 'set it aside' and I found something, and put it aside on the table then went back to the Active. I asked him who he was and what his name was and he wouldn't answer those. she said try asking him if he wants to be a therapist so i did and he said duh, why do you think i am here? i told her, he is so sarcastic.and we shared a little chuckle about that. and I asked a few more questions like "what do you want of me?" and he said basically that i need to get out of his way. hmm. and some other stuff and then t and i talked about do i think about being a therapist? And i said well not like with adults like you do, no. But I have thought about it as far as working with kids. I always did enjoy working with the younger girl scouts at camp, when i taught swimming lessons and canoeing at camp and stuff. And she said "Art, your eyes lit up when you said that." So my homework is to make a concrete first step towards that end - do some research on what it would take, and call a couple local grade schools and ask to schedule an informational interview with one of their counselors. And at the end of the Active Imagination I invited the young male t or my animus to help me do these things, told him i needed his help and input. This is all so very fascinating. What a great session!! I need to go put another load of laundry in and fold the stuff in the drier and write a grocery list, then I'll be back to get caught up here!