A Re-enactment or How Transference is a B**** Part II
This is the second part of a two part series, part one can be found here. So I showed for the next session, prepared to tackle the topic again. After telling him quite emphatically that I did not want...
View ArticleA Re-enactment or How Transference is a B**** Part I
Greetings gentle readers, I’m back from vacation, which was quite refreshing. I have not been blogging for several reasons: work was a bit busy (I am the technical documentation department so nothing...
View ArticleMy Core of Shame
Greetings gentle readers, I have been doing very intense work lately in therapy, mainly centered around shame. A deep, excoriating shame provoked when I go anywhere near talking about my body or my...
View ArticleEveryone Has Closets
I just finished watching Ash Beckham’s talk at TEDx and had to share it. I thought this was a wonderful, impassioned plea to treat both ourselves and others with compassion and empathy. I really...
View ArticleReliving the Shame
I just had a deep insight into shame (which I suspect is going to sound D’oh when I say it) that I want to write down before I forget. I have been doing some rather intense work in therapy lately,...
View ArticleSorting the Past
In the comments after my last post, It’s still no, but still helpful, a number of questions were asked that I felt needed a longer answer than I would want to put in a comment and since they were all...
View ArticleHow do I fill the void?
Dpblusee left the following question in response to the “Therapy isn’t enough” post: I don’t believe I have ever felt true, authentic love in my life until it was evoked in my therapy (which, for me,...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Shame – Part II
Greetings, gentle readers, thank you for your patience in waiting for the followup. This is the second half of a post started in The Paradox of Shame – Part I. The level of shame and embarrassment...
View ArticleForgot How Good This Was
I had my Ipod on “shuffle all” which I do occasionally when I can’t decide what I’m in the mood for. I have wildly eclectic taste in music (some people have implied it gives them whiplash ) so when I...
View ArticleShackles
Greetings gentle readers. I have returned safely from a wonderful, refreshing vacation, but re-entry was a bit bumpy. We brought back a stomach virus, to which I added some asthma and sinus problems,...
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