Category: Therapeutic Thursday
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Wellness Wednesday (12/28/22)
I know. It’s been way too long since I’ve last posted. A lot has been happening, some of which made typing difficult (2 surgeries) and some of which was just plain busy (traveling and holidays). None of that is a valid excuse though. I really need to get back to a regular habit of writing.…
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Making Progress
Therapy today felt like a celebration of wins. I’ve had good weeks before, obviously (or not so obvious), but this week has felt like a lot of wins. I’ve talked a lot about my anxieties and worries in relation to my son, both here and in therapy. For some reason, he is the one I…
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Therapeutic [Tuesday] – 10-04-2022
I know it’s not Thursday, but I had therapy today. Another round of EMDR. Today’s memories and images were much more recent. All of them took place when I was an adult. I don’t know if that means we are getting closer to being “done” with reprocessing, or if I just had a lot of…
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EMDR – 09-28-22
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We really seem to be getting in a groove now. Instead of me spilling my guts when my therapist asks me how my week went, I can generally give a brief vent about something in particular and then she asks “Do you want to continue diving into that, or transition to EMDR?” After my vent…
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More EMDR and a bit of writing
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I had another round of EMDR therapy today. This time was very different from the others. In my previous sessions the memories have all stayed in the hospital, with the exception of last week when I “saw” them in the hospital, but don’t think the memory of my parents arguing actually took place in that…
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Therapeutic Thursday (8/17/22)
I’m writing this on Wednesday, to be published on Thursday. My therapy sessions have moved to Wednesday, but “Therapeutic Wednesday” doesn’t have the same ring to it. So I’ll just delay my posts! Problem solved. Anyway, I was finally back in person today. It’s been since July 14th! We also did another EMDR session. I…
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Therapeutic Thursday (7/7/22)
Wow. My therapist and I have been preparing to use EMDR to deal with my feelings of being defective for months now. We started history gathering way back in February, but life kept popping up and I would need to talk through current issues. We’ve gone back to it periodically, even managing to work on…
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Therapeutic Thursday (6/30/22)
It’s been quite awhile since I last did a Therapeutic Thursday post. Not because I haven’t gone to therapy, but because I’ve been going in person, which makes it difficult to immediately work on a post. And after I’m home the moment/processing is done. It’s a 20 minute drive. I decided to give it a…
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Therapeutic Thursday (5/12/22)
It was a 9 tissue session today… We spent a lot of time talking about how socially awkward I felt at a retirement party I attended yesterday as well as how hard it is for me to get my head around all the transitions that are happening with my kids finishing elementary school. The person…
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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…