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I'm just curious about your homework assignment. Why were you asked to write an angry letter to my abuser? Did your T just want to provide you with a venting activity to prevent you head from exploding between sessions? Or is the purpose something different?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">McKell, I don't know the reason for stormyangel's homework, but I have been asked before by my T to write a letter to someone from my past. It helps give closure and you get a chance to tell them what you weren't able to back then. It can be kind of analogous to "the empty chair" from Gestalt therapy, where you face an empty chair, pretend the person from your past is there, and talk to him/her. Can release a lot. And give you a chance to say what you never got to stay. Very powerful. When I wrote my letter, it helped me a lot. (Mine was a good-bye letter telling a special person how much he had meant to me.)

stormy, that sounds like a really hard assignment. If you're not able to do the homework in time for tomorrow, that's OK. There is always next week. Yes, once the door is opened, it can be a flood. Hang in there.