Posted by antigua3 on December 13, 2007, at 10:02:16
I saw my T yesterday and was telling her how I had decided to put my upset feelings "away" about my pdoc until I could see him to discuss them. As I've mentioned before, i don't see him as often as I need to so I have to carry things with me for a couple of weeks.
I didn't want the feelings to intrude while I was trying to get ready and to enjoy Christmas. Like everyone, I have a million things to do. So I told my T that I put the feelings in my safe place, a cedar chest in my mind that smells good and feels so smooth and wonderful. I talked about this in an above post, and I told her that I when I went to put the feelings in there, a bunch of other things tried to pop out and I had a hard time of gathering them all together and stuffing them back into my over filled box. This made me realize i have been avoiding difficult things and we agreed to start discussing some of them in the New Year.
But then she said, "If you're having trouble fitting everything into the box, why don't you make the box bigger?" I had to laugh; what a great idea and it worked. Everything is now safely tucked away until I can deal with it all. The box will probably be as big as a house by the time I'm finished!
Happy Holidays to all. I'm sorry so many people are hurting--the holidays seem to do that, don't they?
antigua
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