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Originally posted by Attachment Girl:
Hey, either it goes over well, or we'll have something to discuss that session! Besides, it will take me a while to finish it, so I can think about it while I do it.

You’re right on there AG! We always have the “we can always discuss it” option open. I doubt that he would, I hate to use this word, reject your gift. If he could not accept it, it would be for good reason. But I don’t think that would happen.

I’ve written all sorts of stuff over the years, including a fictional novel loosely based on my real life friendships that I never finished. (But I would love to).

The book I wrote for my daughter is Titled- "From My Heart- a mother’s guidebook for her adult daughter." It was a project that helped me to work through the emotions and feelings of abandonment by my daughter growing up and moving out before I was ready. I compiled all the thoughts, fears, and missed advice that came to me during my many sleepless nights of worrying, “Did I prepare her well enough for a life on her own?” It of course was a serious book intertwined with my irrevocable humor while revealing my rawest emotions that led me to recognize the hyper vigilance that I had been trying to right every wrong with my childhood through hers. Which paved the way for my most recent book which is sort of a “self help memoir” or should I say a “so help me memoir” about my therapeutic experience in treating my PTSD and multiple childhood traumas through EMDR, and the subsequent attachment that developed with my T. (Something no one here would understand I am sure. )

The nicest thing though is my T has encouraged me to publish because she has never read this sort of account from a client’s point of view. She says the way I capture the essence of the attachment process and my awareness of my little girl self is something that would be beneficial for other clients and therapists to read. In fact, she has asked my permission to read excerpts to colleagues and to other clients when they get stuck. She even began reading it to me one day when I was stuck. I smiled and said to her “Where’d you get that? That’s brilliant.”

Honestly, since I've found this website, I see a lot of well articulated accounts just as deserving of those remarks.