Hi, all.

I hope you're well. I've just started a three week break with my counsellor, and this has sprung to mind. I've realised that I can narrate the details of my trauma, and the emotion is most definitely there, but I can't get that out.

So far, R has suggested art therapy and the empty chair technique to begin externalising some of that stuff, but it's hard to know that it's there and yet not be able to get at it.

If you've also experienced this 'defence mechanism', how do you break through it?

Thanks,

Lost