A couple of weeks ago I caught my therapist stifling a yawn. I sort of looked away, trying to be polite. I completely understand that he’s human and that yawning is something that we all do, but I’m already in a phase where I’m ambivalent about therapy and when I got home later that day, I used it as an excuse to cancel my appointment the next day. In my therapy we don’t work with parts, but I suppose I felt like the yawn made a young part of myself feel insecure and boring to my T. The following week at the end of our session I mentioned to him that I had seen him yawn the week before and I was surprised by how touched or affected he felt by that comment. I saw him the next morning (I see him 2x/week) and that day I told him how I woke up at 4:00 a.m. stressed about work. He disclosed that he was also up at 4:00 a.m. thinking about what I’d said about his yawn. He emphasized that he thought it was good that I could tell him this, but he also looked like he was fighting back tears. The yawn itself wasn’t that big of a deal to me, but his reaction to my bringing it up is really interesting to me. It seems like an overreaction, but I’m also sort of touched by it. Have you ever caught your therapist yawning? Have you discussed it?