In my own turn of assertiveness, or at least non-people pleasing: I had a rather heavy session with Dr. T today that ended in a kind of weird place. I felt progressively worse about it after session and around 6 p.m. asked if he had anything tomorrow. He said he could do 10 am tomorrow if I felt "strongly" about it, though "Friday is better." Adding "I'm good with either call you make."

People-pleasing LT would have thought "He doesn't want to see me tomorrow. Even though I want to see him then and he offered, I will be a good girl and just wait until Friday." But I decided to read what he actually wrote and take it for what it was. He could have just not offered it at all. He explicitly said that either way was fine with him. So I took the time tomorrow. And he said he'd see me then.