I just wanted to tell you about something.
I am going through rough times. Now it´s Sunday morning and I was surfing through this website trying to seek some comfort. I had been reading some stuff Shrinklady had written, and they all feel so right. Then I look at the left of one page and see „ You and 5 others are currently browsing this site.- Okey Dokey...hold onto your potatoes
It is incredible how words can make you feel better – Even things that may sound silly like „Hold on to your potatoes“. I have to explain to you why those words meant so much to me.
Last fall I really felt a turning point in my treatment. For the first time in my life I could feel good. Just for a brief moment at the time, but I felt good, and it was so great to know that I could really feel that. I told my T about it, and I said; “Isn´t it marvelous, that finally I can feel good?, I think this fall is really a harvest time!”
(At that time I did not tell T about my bad feelings that came along with the good ones, that was a mistake, but that’s another story)
T said it was great that I could feel good, she was happy for me and at the end of the session she said “…and take care of those potatoes”
In my mind the harvest looked more like sweet apples than potatoes, but I understood her metaphor.
Now everything has gone wrong in my therapy and T and I have spitted in a really harsh way and it feels terrible.
That´s why „Hold on to your potatoes“ does not sound silly in my ears. It reminds me that I have to keep on walking and my improvements have not left me even though T has.
