Couch 177: I Get a Strange Magic - ELO

Good Idea!

I've brought my favorite stuffed animal (a dog my grandma gave when I was 2! and I'm 56 now!) with me to therapy before. That was helpful too. I'm so glad she recently got the big furry pillow I was hugging last night...

I regularly bring a stuffed teddy bear to therapy. Sometimes it has to stay in the bag, but when I'm upset it really helps cuddling it.

I used to bring a little stuffed animal mouse but I associate it too much with my former T and I don't want to associate him with this T. I will have to find something else to take with me.

Preparing for a worker's comp audit is boring. I forgot how boring it was from last year. I'm trying to stay focused but it doesn't help that it's Friday afternoon....

I think my ex has left town and i never got to say good bye to the old family dog. Also my dead ex bil car is still in my yard, waiting for solicitors letters and such

My therapist has never said anything about holding feelings or sitting with them or anything along those lines. Maybe she thinks I would interrogate her about that for weeks on end and drag out transcripts of when she said it, in case there's a disagreement.

My t has a teddy bear that sits next to me on the couch. ☺

mine never has either. she probably knows that I would major eye-roll her and scoff at her "woo-wooness."

I rejected one therapist because she had stuffed bears all over her office.
They creeped me out.

Holding feelings is woo woo? I should be all over it then rofl

I think the language is woowoo. The idea that one has feelings but doesn't have to act just because of a feeling is not woowoo to me.

Ah that makes sense.

That is creepy unless she also saw children.

tee hee how did I never hear this little gem until yesterday???




(i think it was actually written by Guy Clark?)

I like that song.

me too! it's fun huh!

taking the advice given previously, i am turning off my computer and going to sit down in a comfy chair with a couple sharp pencils and apply my mind to statistics.

yeah, the language is woo-woo.

My therapist doesn't have stuffed animals that I can see. She did have a drunk lady show up once, though. Not the same thing, but it goes to show that a therapist's office can surprise.

I already have an attachment to my new pcp. Is that a bad thing?

H just got a bill from his surgery...$60k. He wants to sell the house. He promised me we'd never lose this house. It's seriously my dream house and we got it for a steal. Watch... he's going to also get charged our copay of $325 for each of the 37 times he went to the hospital. I want to give up!

You can likely work out a payment plan with the hospital, we did that with my hospital bill from June.

And many hugs scarlet. I can't even imagine how you must feel.

H and I went grocery shopping tonite and in the car we talked about what I'd wanted to on Monday but didn't. He feels the same way I do so score 1 for "us" there. We're going to start having a set 'date night' every week to talk, or watch a movie, go out to eat, whatever.

I just remembered something when he came to visit me before he moved there, before we got married , we cooked together once and it was fun. I think I'll suggest we do that again.