[SummerTime12]

Last night I went through a box of old books in my room and found several old journals. One of them was from around age 12, which was when a lot of my trauma history happened. I kind of want to share what I wrote with my T so he can see my mindset from that time period, but I don’t know if I should.

I wrote some pretty dark s*** about SI and SH, and it’s in poetry form, but like not even good poetry because I was 12 lol. I’m mostly hesitant to share it with him because I find the fact that I wrote poems about what I was feeling pretty embarrassing (mostly because they make me wanna cringe).

Any thoughts? Have any of you done something like this before?

[Salmon77]

I don't share the actual writing with my T, I just tell him what's in it and what it means to me. I figure that's probably what he would ask anyway and I don't want to sit around while he reads. I don't think there's anything to be embarrassed about, though, it's probably helpful to have that window on how it was for you in the moment back then.

[Xynesthesia2]

My therapists were quite interested in records from the past: writings, old photographs, art work... But more when shared in sessions. They never reacted much to stuff I just sent them via email, for example, between sessions.

[Rive1976]

I think it is a good idea perhaps it will show something relevant now to address.