Category: EMDR
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Therapeutic Thursday (5/26/22)
I just did my first in person therapy session. I was a nervous wreck leading up to it. Not because I was worried about the session itself, but because I had to coordinate the timing to get there and find the office in a building I’d never been in before. My session was scheduled for…
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Therapeutic Thursday – 5/5/22
I didn’t have therapy last week, since I went on my daughter’s field trip, so today we had two weeks to process. I went in feeling pretty good about myself and the progress I’ve made in recognizing cognitive distortions and my own need to give myself permission to recover from socializing. But somehow, my therapist…
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Therapeutic Thursday (4/14/22)
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Remember how I said that I decided this blog would be my “talk therapy” because I wanted my therapy-therapy to be for EMDR? Well, that didn’t happen! I went into the session thinking I had a pretty good handle on things, having worked through my emotions about my son having Covid and talking to my…
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Therapeutic Thursday (4/7/22)
Amazing. With as many bad things that happened in the two weeks since my last session, I was expecting to go through a ton of tissues. I used exactly one. And I think it’s all because of this blog. Not that it exists or that people are reading it, but because when everything was hitting…
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Therapeutic Thursday (3/17/22)
Guilt. Why do I have so much guilt built up inside of me? It feels like every memory we uncover comes back to me feeling not just defective, but guilty for my defectiveness causing inconvenience to others. Maybe my mom wouldn’t have her anxiety issues if I didn’t cause her such worry due to my…
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Therapeutic Thursday (3/10/22)
Last week I chaperoned my kids’ field trip, so I didn’t have therapy. So we spent about 20 minutes catching up on all that had happened in the last two weeks. I told about coming home from the field trip to find that my husband had done tons of work moving furniture in anticipation of…
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Therapeutic Thursday (2/24/22)
Defective. That’s the main theme that came up in my session today. We are continuing to history probe to find where my thought process is coming from. We started by looking at feelings that were brought up last week, specifically being a burden. I talked about when I had surgery at 5 years old and…
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Therapeutic Thursday (2/17/22)
Last week my therapist suggested the possibility of trying EMDR therapy to break the thought patterns I have developed about perfectionism and my worth. She suggested watching the following video. I didn’t watch it right away, but did ask on IG if anyone could share their experiences. I heard from two people, one of which…
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Therapeutic Thursday (2/10/22)
Another week, another therapy session. Today was a 4 tissue session. Probably should have used more, but instead I just kept using the same ones. I made a lot of connections today that I hadn’t made before. We talked about how I felt uncomfortable with the junk people here because I felt like they would…