My therapist has said a few times things like, “I was thinking about you the other day and I thought of/wondered...” or “I saw/read (whatever) and it made me think of you.” It’s always related in some way to what we’re working on.

I know she does normal life stuff like cooking, phoning her grown kids, weeding the yard, hanging with friends because we chat about those kinds of things sometimes as we transition into a session.