Thanks for clarifying TR. Feeling safe in one place (therapy) but not others can highlight the lack of safety in other places where you want to feel it. I totally understand the distress of only having it in therapy where it's going to end—because in my case it will when my therapist retires, which will be before I am ready to end, so there's this pressure and panic and worry that it's an isolated thing and that my life will always have this fear. What to do? I guess appreciate that being able to feel safe in one place means we know what it can feel like, and not to push expectations of feeling that same way elsewhere, just to give it room to happen. I don't actually know, though. I have a similar struggle. Just wanted to let you know you're not the only one.
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