What happened with the reflective listening showing through? "I hear you saying". . .not like you. You are usually sincere-seeming. You could have been thrown off by the tears or just the opposite too busy to prepare for the session. I can't mind read (bad) or mentalize (good), when simple techniques show through bc I get flustered and self conscious. Tuesday seems far away, and I am the kind of tired that 45 minutes can't fix, even with you, the half poet and half Boy Scout T. You've strayed into the rescuer part of the k triangle, yet you don't see it. I want to curl up in the palm of your hand and be rescued, but no one can be rescued . I am trying to keep eye contact with you , eyes away from the past, the metaphor kind of eye contact, because you asked me to. Eye contact takes two though, and have you forgotten about work right now? I am your work, so you might not be giving your blue gaze to me, but more to your real people. I have my own real people, but you are heightened, you represent safety, and you want me to think of you.