Couch 114 - Take a Pew

Not "bunch of girls" here - snakes are often a trigger and symbol for people who have experienced certain things.

That said, Artemis shouldn't feel bad and people don't need to avoid the word. Those of us upset can deal with it by posting to move the triggering post off the page, or absent ourselves for a while until it passes.

Baseball game to watch.
Fridge to clean out (every Tuesday as trash day is Wed).
Laundry to sort so it can be started tomorrow.
Got more physical evidence/proof of abuse I didn't know about today.
T is still absent.
Sibling 1 still out of town.
I don't want to put clothes on and do my chores.

Can the couch give me permission to not adult and just be lazy?

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As a strict Freudian (as my t calls me) I should have been more aware of that. Thanks and sorry.

Isn't there a sign above the entrance to the Couch? "Abandon adulting all ye who enter here"?

Sweet. Then sit on my arse and watch ball it is.

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No, no no. That would be terrible.

Perhaps more, you don't have to always adult here, others will be here to take it up until you are ready again. (Someone has to suggest that drinking and texting the therapist is one of the most certain bad plans known around here)

I am not handing in my adulting. I like it.

"Abandon adulting all who enter here, except for stopdog"?

You can be our designated adult. Which means you have to buy the booze, tell us when to turn the lights out, yell at us to stop giggling, etc., etc.

So SD will have a basket to collect all phones upon entry to adhere to rule #1 'no contacting t under any influence'...?

I have never understood the snake/phallus thing becasue snakes are gentle and wise not evil and punitive.

You're welcome to do my adulting...

Start having those nightmares and you'll begin to understand the sheer terror.

Fridge cleaned out.
Strawberries with peach cobbler frosting eaten.
Top of the 7th.
Now to take the trash out, clean up a little of the garage.
Make that the bottom of the 7th.
Sort the laundry.

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I don't think I come from the same world as everybody else.

I like snakes. They're pretty cool...

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I'm indifferent about them.

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Random post. Just listening to this and wanted to put it out there for whoever might want to hear it. Thanks for being there.



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This similar to my feelings re T at the moment.
Being excluded from your therapists life
https://lifeinabind.com/2015/04/18/b...-how-it-feels/

I am experimenting today with the differences in cleaning scale off with citric acid versus vinegar. I want to know if one does it better than the other.

Thanks bunyip

At the moment, citric acid is coming out ahead. Not in the least because it does not smell like vinegar.

Hey, Art - what does it mean when you have dreams but they stick with you for a while. Should I write them down or analyze them? Or am I just good at remembering them?

I have this image of SD filming one of those side-by-side comparison commercials - you know, like how absorbent are these two brands of paper towels or which glass of denture-cleaning fluid gets your dentures cleaner?

"Citric acid cleans 20% better than vinegar!"

My t would say they are calling you to work with them if they stick with you like that. She believes (as do I) that our psyche speaks to us through the language of dreams.

One of the first ways she taught me to work with my dreams was via Active Imagination. I borrowed a book from her when we first started doing dream work (and then subsequently bought my own copy because I found it so helpful) called "Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth" by Robert A Johnson, besides writing books he's also a Jungian Analyst. Basically you interact with your dream while you're awake in your imagination. I do them sitting at my computer, typing them as they progress, so I can share them with t later and also refer back to them. If you want, I'll pm you one of my dreams and then the Active Imagination I did with it, if you're interested at all. I have a ton of them saved on my computer!

I would love to see! I have 3 over the period of 2 weeks that won't go away. That I keep thinking about and seeing and none of it has faded like they usually do. I have that book on my bookshelf. I have a bad habit (or good depending) of buying books whenever someone mentions them, so I picked it up when you mentioned it a while back.

I sent you one. And I'm going to go back and work with this particular one again, I think, Libby was a very wise soul for a turtle.