I’m having one of those therapy saturation point days. This happens every now again; I just feel like I can’t handle it anymore. I feel like quitting because it is all so hard and seems to get me nowhere. I’ve written a fair bit about my problem with silence in therapy. A little bit is fine….
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Therapy today: Sticky silence
Everyone reminds me that therapy is the place where any thought or feeling is welcome – but what about silence? We all sit quite happily in silence when we’re alone, but if you’re anything like me, you’ll be someone who finds it excruciatingly awkward to sit in silence with other people. After the car crash…
Silenced again
I wrote yesterday about how much therapy had unsettled me. It was strange, because during the session I felt OK, but walking home this awful gut dread caught up with me. I couldn’t work it out. It was making me want to start a fight with someone or scream. This anger gathered in me and…
Mindfulness: You’ve got to dare to be present
For a long time, silence was synonymous with my misery. Being still and quiet would mean drowning in negative thoughts and self-criticism. Panicking about everything I needed to do and all that is past and won’t ever change. I constantly distracted myself, with work, TV, sport, alcohol, whatever was easiest at the time. Anything to…
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