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Old Jul 30, 2020, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Ssigros View Post
T wants me to start writing. I'm not the writing my thoughts/feelings type of person, but maybe I can start writing my lingering feelings right after the end of a session so then we can come back to that moment in my next session! Have you thought about sharing any of your written down lingering feelings with T?
I used to journal where I was writing to T. I would go to it any time I needed to and write whatever came up. I shared my journals with T. At the beginning there was a lot I would move to a personal section that was not shared with T. By the end, very little was written in that spot. I've been seeing my T since the end of 2015. We've moved from stabilization and support to analytical. The distance/video therapy is putting a big dent in my progress as a lot of my therapy prior was around play.

A bit over a year ago, I went to daily contact with T. This was to help repair a fairly major rupture. I either email or we have a session each day. After a bit my journal didn't seem as needed. My emails seem to be equivalent to my journal entries, or enough. Actually less volume, I'm sure, as I tend to only email her first thing in the morning. It is not therapy even though I may ramble on about something her replies are rarely more than 5 sentences and always follow a pattern. She leaves it to me to bring up any topic, so even if I wrote about it, she rarely brings it up. We have gone back and talked about some of it. Not that often. More so since moving to the video visits as we've yet to find a way to play together over the video.