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Old Dec 22, 2010, 01:40 PM
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I want your T. Is it a woman or man? If it's a woman, please forward her contact information. Thank you. Yes, I am willing to relocate.
Funny chicken I just live one state over from you. My T grew up in NYC and yes she is a woman. And No I will not be sharing her info with you - I don't like to share sometimes

The books she lent me are to help in my therapy. One book is about mother daughter relationships and another is about a girl that was abused and how it effected her life as a teen and grown woman. She gave me those before a vacation break months ago.

Are you considering finding another T?
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Old Dec 22, 2010, 01:46 PM
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I haven't received any cards from T and I haven't sent any either. As far as I know, my T doesn't celebrate the holidays. I wasn't sure how to handle the whole holiday thing - neither of us wished the other happy holidays.
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Old Dec 22, 2010, 01:48 PM
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I sent T cards for almost all occasions (except her birthday since I didn't know when it was), Mother's Day, Valentines Day, etc. But I don't know that I ever got anything in the mail from her. She did lend me some modeling clay once and I reciprocated with modeling "soap" to her for Christmas that year.

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Old Dec 22, 2010, 02:15 PM
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Funny chicken I just live one state over from you. My T grew up in NYC and yes she is a woman. And No I will not be sharing her info with you - I don't like to share sometimes

The books she lent me are to help in my therapy. One book is about mother daughter relationships and another is about a girl that was abused and how it effected her life as a teen and grown woman. She gave me those before a vacation break months ago.

Are you considering finding another T?
I want to leave my T every other week, but I love her dearly. You're just making me exceedingly jealous! My T is very warm, and I will admit she does go great lengths to satisfy my needs. I want her stuff though and hugs too. Actually, I want her to adopt me, but I'd settle for her throw blanket for now.
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Old Dec 22, 2010, 03:11 PM
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That's it! I am taking my T's chair.

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LOLOLOLOL

I don't even know. I have a few marble/stone things that he has for the actual purpose of sending home with people. I have a COLLECTION of them. Early in therapy, I took them a lot for different reasons.

I have one or two of his pens.

I have some post-it notes that he wrote for me.

I have one of his personal items from a little collection he has on his desk.

A couple of appointments ago, I looked under all of the cushions in his office for spare change and he taped it all together and sent it home with me (something like "74 cents worth of connection") lol

And I have an endless supply of voice mails, because we leave one for each other after every session.

That's all I can think of right now. Still trying to get that chair! lol

In return, he has a ton of my stuff on his desk. A box I painted to hold my "stuff". Something I knitted for him. A couple of books I gave him as gifts. Probably things I'm forgetting.

T and I seem to do a lot of exchanging of "stuff" now that I'm writing it all down. But I guess we've had close to 300 therapy hours together (at least), so maybe in that context, it's not that much...
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Old Dec 22, 2010, 03:12 PM
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I gave my T a card. Didn't see it again. He loved the cookies once he got over getting them from me. LOL. He asked me if he should send out Christmas cards to all his clients. I told him why not? Such a goofy man he is. He also asked me to edit his web site and I did and he took my advice!!
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Old Dec 22, 2010, 04:11 PM
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and hugs too.
I too want hugs
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Old Dec 22, 2010, 04:56 PM
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WOW those are some great tellings everyone!

Griffinp? wow! your T went to the hospital to visit after you gave birth and then changed your baby's diaper?
She did. It's one of my most treasured times with T (I should say, old T). She's a birth/parenting coach in addition to being a T, so it was natural for her to offer to be there. She would have been at the actual birth if I had asked her to, but that would have been too weird for me.
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Old Dec 22, 2010, 06:42 PM
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She did. It's one of my most treasured times with T (I should say, old T). She's a birth/parenting coach in addition to being a T, so it was natural for her to offer to be there. She would have been at the actual birth if I had asked her to, but that would have been too weird for me.
Very Cool! For me that would be amazing to have my T there during such a momentous important occasion. Thanks for sharing.
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Old Dec 22, 2010, 07:04 PM
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I just started seeing my psychologist last year & she was gone for November, December & most of January last year, so never gave her a card or anything. This year, I just haven't baked the cookies that I wanted to get made in time to give her any, so just gave her a card with some of my artwork on it. She sat my card on the top of her book case & commented at how creative I am. She has several other cards she received sitting there also & wanted to set my card so she could look at the artwork, but my name would have shown also, so she said that she would just look at the artwork when no one was in the office.

I made some gingerbread & sugar cookie horse head cut out cookies & decorated them with red halters & great looking mane & forelock. I gave one to my therapist for her little girl. That therapist comes to my farm between the times I see my psychologist in the office.

Love being creative, but it also takes so much time....seems as though it's very appreciated though.
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Old Dec 22, 2010, 07:11 PM
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I have never asked my T for anything. Even when she offeres me something, I refuse it.
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Old Dec 23, 2010, 12:42 AM
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Just sent my t an email with our christmas card/photo. Not sure i'll send her the letter.
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Old Dec 23, 2010, 02:45 PM
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Just sent my t an email with our christmas card/photo.
That sounds really nice. Hope she receives it and responds. That reminds me I sent T an email one year with a Christmas photo of my daughter being very goofy with the Christmas lights. He liked it a lot and responded. So that worked a lot better than the one time I mailed a card and he never mentioned it--or perhaps he never received it. I think it is asking too much of my T to receive a card in the mail and remember to mention it several weeks later to the client who sent it. This is just the sort of task he does not excel at.
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Old Dec 23, 2010, 03:56 PM
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Just sent my t an email with our christmas card/photo. Not sure i'll send her the letter.
I just did the same. Not sure if she'll respond via email but I'm not insulted if she doesn't.
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Old Dec 23, 2010, 05:45 PM
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We'll since I posted this thread..... I checked the mail and received a card from T . On the seal of the envelope was a little "A+ Job" sticker
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