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Words

2/12/2016

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My psychotherapist has a lot of words. Sometimes this is a source of frustration for me, especially if he uses a lot of them all at once in a fashion that means I have to work a little harder mentally or emotionally than I want to, or listen a little longer than my patience seems to allow for.  Sometimes his words are hard to hear, sometimes I don't hear them at all.
At other times, his words cross the divide between us, find the words I'm not saying and say them for me. That can be close to a transcendent experience. The part of me which was too scared to express itself is not only seen, but spoken to. That which was nebulous and yet to be formed suddenly takes on new life, becoming real in a way it never could be when it remained unsaid.
Recently I was struggling to put into words my feelings around a break. I was trying to say something, and failing, and then he said it for me...
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Simone
1/1/2017 01:43:26 am

To have the complicated, knotted, mess of thoughts and feelings of my own therapy experience captured by the words of an anonymous writer - inconceivably distilled into clear coherent words - a surprising and meaningful gift.

"So much of therapy is a struggle for me, not just to say the words, but to find them in the first place. A lot of times, it’s easy to feel alone in that struggle - but in that moment, I knew I wasn't alone anymore."

Thank you to the anonymous author, I wish you well on your journey.

(And thank you to whose ever idea it was to have this series of blog posts - undertaking psychotherapy, at least in my brief experience, is a uniquely insular experience in that it is rarely shared with other people also going through the same process.)

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