[WrkNPrgress]

I found a great quote by Alive Walker on a blog. It's perfect description of that process in therapy where it feels like maybe not much really is happening, and it hurts, and it's hard. Can this really be progress? That's the state I"m in right now. My T says, yes, I've come a long way. I am making progress. I believe that to be true. It's barely tangible. It's hard to really grasp the ways I feel different.

This quote summed up the idea pretty well and I thought others might like it.

“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”

—— Alice Walker (Living By The Word)

[kaliope]

thanks for sharing this

Perfect!

[Ellahmae]

Wonderful!

Thank you.

Thanks I'm possibly there too. My T has been telling me that all the emotion I feel is a positive thing, whereas I have been feeling that having become this weeper is not right.