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What are some therapeutic activites that you do with your therapist?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> Well we started out as straight, psychoanalytically oriented talk therapy. Now it has definitely evolved. Sometimes I draw with colored pencils in therapy. Sometimes we do a mindfulness exercise. He puts on a tape of this expert in minfulness that he knows, who teaches in the city-- and he helps me to regulate while I do it, since I have a lot of trouble with that. Sometimes he brings in a quote or a passage that we read together and discuss. A lot of the "activities" are centered around my own creations-- poetry, journals, emails, or art that I give to him.

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What are some you do on your own time for "self therapy"?

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Well, I definitely need to do more of this. Unfortunately, my SI has taken over a lot of what I should be doing. When I am up to it, I write and write and write-- poetry, journals, articles. I enjoy creating abstract art. I have started to meditate and I am going to start yoga this weekend. None of the things that I do are random-- for example, if I do art, I don't paint a bowl of fruit-- or if I write a poem, it is not about a political issue-- everything that I create comes from within and I use it as a medium to allow my unconscious to speak.