Posted by madeline on October 3, 2006, at 6:03:35
In reply to I don't know what I want, posted by Daisym on October 2, 2006, at 23:42:53
Daisy,
I hear you that therapy is hard. I had one of those sessions yesterday that just left me emotionally "gone".
I don't know if this will work for you, but lately I've just relaxed against my relationship with my therapist - it is what it is. Sometimes I get really scared, sometimes I feel completely loved, sometimes completely abandoned.
But I can trust that neither the good stuff nor the bad stuff will last. In that way it is like a glimmer of a real relationship. It has ups and downs and in betweens and that's tough.
Yesterday, I quoted an emily dickinson poem about hope during my session and my therapist I swear started to cry. He didn't want me to leave. I, on the other hand, couldn't wait to get out of there ;).
Just in case you are curious the stanza in the poem is as follows:
Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
and sings the tune -- without the words
and never stops at all
Take care
Maddie
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