My T has made a few suggestions only after I've said I wanted to do something.

She has repeatedly said, 'you can choose to re-shelve your past but it is going to keep resurfacing unless you deal with it.' Unfortunately, she hasn't been very clear about how exactly one deals with it. With regard to this particular issue I wish she would just say, to deal with your past you need to do x,y,z. Then I could decide if I want to do it and just DO it already. But for some reason she is not forthcoming with even a general plan for how to "deal with it".