Posted by antigua3 on October 22, 2008, at 13:49:43
I had an intense, productful session with my pdoc last night. (See, I can say something nice about him!).
Anyway, we were talking about my 5-yr-old girl and how she is actually sitting outside of me right now, rigid as a box, and I can't reach her. She is pure fear and terror, the root of my feelings, but I can't access her. I have no connection to her emotionally, and I feel like I need to in order to make progress.
My pdoc said "You have three choices." Here are the choices. When he refers to "walking," he means moving forward and making progress. Obviously, when he refers to "talking" he means addressing the little girl.
Here are the choices:
1. We can sit down with the little girl and discuss her emotions.
2. We can walk while we talk to her.
3. You can take my hand and we can talk to her as we walk.Now, if this were your therapy (not mine, I'll discuss that later), which would you choose and why?
I'm just interested in what people would choose.
antigua
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