Posted by llurpsienoodle on September 20, 2008, at 12:23:42
In reply to Re: Self-esteem crash and ironical Taoists, posted by Nadezda on September 20, 2008, at 11:47:17
Oh my...
My little brain cannot expand to hold such dialectical thoughtNad, sux that you're getting tough love from T ((((Nad))))
could it be that your T is threatened that the DBT is helping you in a way that he couldn't?
At any rate, I'm kinda jealous that you've gotten the chance to do some good DBT work. My T tells me I need to learn how to soothe myself. Then he tells me in the next sentence that when he was growing up, his dad tried to undermine his mother's soothing him (babyT). As a result, he says that he often has to check his instincts as a father himself, that he doesn't undermine his wife's style of raising their son.
No wonder I don't want to present him with intense distress. He'd intellectualize it. Maybe I should call him out on this? That would be spicy!
Can you find a kid to paint with?
-Ll
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