Both t and I often reference the elephant in the room idiom and the elephant riddle. (How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.)

From yesterday's session, talking about processing trauma and memory:
T- Memory is like a dotted line. Our brains want to fill in the blanks.
Me- So how do I get from the dotted line to something I can fold up and put away in a drawer?
(Discussion about trauma and memory and processing.)
T- When the elephant walks into the room and sits on your head, it's hard to get a bite.

It was a good session. Long, interesting. We talked quite a bit about intersections between culture and women and traditional gender roles and power and entitlement and how those play out from the individual level to the cultural level...I was going to write, "stuff that's way more interesting than whining about my own sh**" but that's why I go to therapy, so...topics that both intersect with my sh** and are interesting in their own right.