Posted by pegasus on August 4, 2004, at 17:46:49
In reply to Please join therapist-on-vacation club!, posted by pegasus on August 4, 2004, at 12:27:54
Bang Bang (my gavel).
Since this is the first meeting, we'll only deal with new business:
At this moment we have myself and GG currently without therapists. Next week we will add Klokka, and the following week, everyone will be without a therapist (Dinah, Klokka, Daisy, rubenstein, pegasus, and gardenergirl).
It seems that we can all find at least one good thing about the situation. Common concerns include that T will be gone when something bad happens, that T won't return at all, that we'll explode from keeping stuff in for so long, an general fear of being on our own.
Some excellent coping skills were proposed:
Rationality
Killing time
Writing
Reading
Posting
Taking our own vacation
Engaging in complicated cooking
Eating ice cream, chocolate, coffee, pizza, and other comfort foods
Watching movies
Seeing friends
Self care: meditate, yoga, otherwise relaxGood start club! It was proposed that we create a secret handshake. Not sure how to do that without letting everyone else know how it goes.
I suggest that we also help each other with the count down to T return. Then we get to have a lot of celebrations when they get back. I'll work out everyone's count downs and let you know.
(((TOV Club)))
pegasus
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