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Twoapenny:
Saw a new therapist today. She practices Gestalt therapy, which is all to do with how the mind and emotions can affect the physical body. I am hoping she can help me deal with feeling like an eighty year old woman when I'm half that age.
I got a good feeling from her. She's very direct, her meeting room is very informal and comfortable. I didn't feel like I was being analysed or assessed (which is good as I don't like that feeling). Today was a preliminary, just to see if we felt we could do some work together.
She picked up on a few things very quickly. I told her a bit of background and she said that my body language was suggesting I didn't get a lot of support and she wondered if that was the case. That was pretty spot on. She said my posture - sitting forward on the chair, not leaning into it in any way, holding myself up rigid - suggested someone who wasn't used to getting support and my body showed that by not softening and letting the chair take some of the pressure. She had me rearrange myself and sit back with cushions. She said she noticed I smile a lot and she wondered if I was used to putting on a brave face. Again, very much so. She asked where I feel the need to smile in my body and I don't, I plaster it on to make other people feel comfortable. She asked me if I was filtering what I said to her - of course I was! It's such a habit. She said to try and tell her how a question makes me feel rather than answering the question straight away. I have come home feeling terrible, which always happens when I start talking about any of this stuff. But I liked the way she worked and felt glad I'd bitten the bullet and gone over. So work will now be underway!
Hopalong:
Wow.
A SMART therapist is just as important as a KIND one.
And she is clearly both!
What a great find, Tupp.
I am very glad for you.
And...http://www.salon.com/2013/11/05/my_unconventional_therapist_saved_my_life/
hugs
Hops
Meh:
Good Luck Two!!!!
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on November 04, 2013, 08:30:47 PM ---Wow.
A SMART therapist is just as important as a KIND one.
And she is clearly both!
What a great find, Tupp.
I am very glad for you.
And...http://www.salon.com/2013/11/05/my_unconventional_therapist_saved_my_life/
hugs
Hops
Thank you, Hops. I like that article, too, what an awful trauma that lady has been through losing her son like that, heart breaking. I must form a new habit of not reading comments after an article, though, there are some really mean spirited, narrow minded people in the world. I only want the open minded, kind ones!
Thank you xx
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Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Green Bean on November 04, 2013, 11:16:08 PM ---Good Luck Two!!!!
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Thank you, Green. I hope your situation starts to improve soon, too xx
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