Dear T,

Thank you for calling me back. I'm glad the clinic line relayed the message. Thank you for asking me to focus on your voice to ground. Thank you for supporting me in using coping skills and countering schema distortions using the schema diary. Thank you for reminding me I'm doing my best, that I'm dealing with quite a lot and I won't know everything magically. I'm glad you pointed out C has been, and is still pretty much, a effing bully. That I'm not aggressive if I quote her words back to her and tell her to quit talking to me like that.

Thank you for reminding me I've rights to protect myself because I often feel I'm subhuman and don't have any rights. And for reminding me that sometimes I gotta lay down consequences so people won't keep disregarding and disrespecting me in my role as manager.