Hals - it's good to see you - it's been a while! It's so good to have periods of relief from the turmoil - gives us a glimpse of the day when! Believe me it's really okay to have lighter sessions - all kinds of stuff can come up but usually without great pain, and regardless of the session content we're constantly building our relationship with our T.

Try not to put much thought into it and go with the flow!

Thanks for the feedback Morgs...I guess as with my life, sometimes it seems uncomfortable to NOT be in turmoil. It's what I've been used to

Understood - hope it goes well.

Hals

Go with the flow, I know how it feels when you seem to have nothing to worry about, how odd it can be.

Hi Hals... great to see you again. I don't always have heavy sessions and there are times you just need to be with T and catch up on every day life. It is good to take that breather. I think it really helps the connection when we can do that. There are times I run into T's office breathless from the frenzy at work and with no time at all to think about what my agenda is for that day. And so we just talk and see what comes up. Sometimes the free flow leads to something and sometimes it's just a warm connected feeling of sharing anything at all with T.

Let us know how it goes.

TN

Hello Hals nice to see you posting. And for what seems like a pretty positive reason SMILE.

Can’t say I’ve ever been in the position of not feeling so rubbish that therapy wouldn’t be heavy, but I expect that a different sort of work gets done in those times when you don’t have specific serious issues to bring in.

Yeah I can imagine it would feel strange, if not even a bit frightening, to feel ok when the status quo is always to be in turmoil or overwhelmed or feeling bad.

I hope your nerves about the session are unwarranted and that you have a good one. I too would be interested to know how it goes, hope you feel up to telling us about it.

LL

My session was good. THank you all for your thoughts and comments! It just always feels weird to start out a session with not much of anything, but I took your advice to go with the flow and it was really good. We talked more about relationship stuff, how I feel after the sessions and how it usually takes me at least 2 days to come out of the after session mind fog and begin my week.....stuff that I don't normally talk about because there is always something more pressing. I was able to talk with him about things that I had done during the week that were intentional choices likely contributed to me being in an emotionally better place than normal.

Being my own worst critic most of the time, I tried to focus on things I was doing right. Areas throughout the past months maybe where I took responsibility for my life in areas I hadn't been able to before and then talking about the positive result.

It turned into a good session where I left feeling less like I had just unloaded and felt comforted and more like I had recognized my ability, my growth, and the wonderful things I have come to know during this process.

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It turned into a good session where I left feeling less like I had just unloaded and felt comforted and more like I had recognized my ability, my growth, and the wonderful things I have come to know during this process.

Way to go Hals. I’m so pleased your session was so positive, and it must be great to have therapy reflect good things about you for a change, rather than, as you say, being in the needy in pain ‘dysfunctional’ role. Nice to hear a positive T story

LL

Excellent, well done.

i'm so happy for you - it really is go with the flow! doesn't have to be heavy to make progress! perhaps the thing is here - just be! xx

Thanks everyone....still feeling ok for the moment, so riding the wave as they say!