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Jan 04, 2009, 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by sunrise
In the midst of all the difficulities with therapy and therapists that people are posting about, I feel kind of guilty making a positive post. But here goes... My therapy is going really well and I am getting along great with my therapist. I hope it is OK to post that.
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How dare you???? LOL. I'm glad to hear your therapy is going well.
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What was sweet was at the beginning, when I first see T, I comment on the beard he is growing. I love beards!!! He tells me he will shave it off when he comes back to work for good next week. No, keep it, I urge. Why? Because I like beards, I say. He says his wife told him it makes him look hawt. LOL. I don’t say “me too,” but this cracked me up. I hope he keeps it.
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I can't even imagine my T without his beard/goatee thingy. If he ever shaved it off, I don't think I would even recognize him. I don't think he would, though. The whole goatee thing is staple for a lot of male therapists (and maybe some female therapists, lol). My T seems like one of these.
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I do pretty much trust T with anything. At this session, we went very deep, out of nowhere, and I cried a lot and even sobbed. (One of my new things is to let myself sob if I need to sob. It’s still hard to do that with someone else present, but I'm doing better.) T just sits there and takes it. It strikes me now, as it has before, how strange it is to go see someone for an hour and sob and tell the saddest stories from your life, while they just sit there and listen. (Of course, they do so much more.)
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That is wonderful progress. It takes a lot to get to this point. I think when the T sits there, silently, and shares in our sadness-- this can be so powerful.
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