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In Conflict
In Conflict. Martha Crawford, of What a Shrink Thinks, hits another one out of the park (and once again engenders deep envy in me for her writing abilities and insight)! If you have ever struggled with...
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So, how am I doing?
Cat’s Meow (of Living while Healing. If you haven’t read her yet, do so. She writes with incredible honesty and insight.) asked how I was doing in a comment. I started to answer her but it got so long,...
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Deprivation in Therapy
Dr. Jeffrey Smith has hit another one out of the park on his blog Moments of Change. He recently put up an excellent post that discusses what a therapist does and does not provide for a client in...
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The Timelessness of Attachment
My husband and I went on a trip to Colonial Williamsburg last Fall. For those of you who have never heard of it, Colonial Williamsburg is a living history center. Williamsburg was the first capital of...
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Therapy isn’t enough Redux
Greetings dear readers, I am in the midst of a disruption, probably unknown to BN, of my own making and struggling with what to do. It is forcing me to re-examine my role in therapy and what I am...
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Wanted, not needed, to go
Greetings dear readers, First I want to say thank you to all of you who commented and read my last post (Therapy isn’t enough Redux) and all the support you offered. There was a lot of very wise...
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Ambivalence, thy name is mother
I am feeling… ambivalent. It is my mom’s birthday tomorrow, her 78th. We have been estranged for over a year since my birthday last March. Long story, which I have told elsewhere, but she was given...
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Nothing wrong all along
Ann left a comment on my last post: AG, if you don’t mind sharing, what exactly helped you recognize that BN was totally comfortable with your relationship with him? Instead of answering in the...
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One Among Many
Veryhopeful posted a question on the Psych Cafe forums and the more I thought about answering her, the more I realized it was an excellent topic for a post. So with her kind permission, I am repeating...
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‘Tis the Season: Strategies for coping with a therapist’s absence – Part I
This is the first part of a two part series. (It got a little long! :) ) Life has settled down considerably but- of course- I am now working six day weeks because of a very demanding release going out...
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‘Tis the Season: Strategies for coping with a therapist’s absence – Part II
This is the second part of a two part series; the first part is ‘Tis the Season – Part I. We’re discussing strategies for helping us to get through our breaks in therapy (of any length!). We left off...
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You can come back now
OK, I’ve officially had enough of BN being gone. I’ve got 10 days left to go (so 25 down, you would think that, at least, would feel like an accomplishment) and it stretches before me as an impassable...
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Book Review: How We Heal and Grow
I have been following Dr. Jeffery Smith’s blog, Moments of Change for some time now and was very honored when he asked to send me a pre-publication copy of his new book, How We Heal and Grow: The Power...
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The Retirement of a Therapist – Part I
This is the first in a two-part series. For part II, see Retirement of a Therapist – Part II. Pinkmom76 left a comment on the Ask AG page because her therapist is retiring in four months and she...
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Retirement of a Therapist – Part II
This is the second in a two-part series. For part I, see Retirement of a Therapist – Part I When we left off, I had brought you to the point of finding out my therapist was retiring, my mixed reactions...
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Existential Freefall – Part I
I was going to name this post “Existential Freefall or What I’ve Been Trying to Remember for 20 years (Well, 50 Really)” but that seemed a bit unwieldy, even for me, so I went with the shorter version....
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Existential Freefall – Part II
This is the second part of a two part series, for part I, see Existential Freefall – Part I So in my last post, I explained the background and issues I was taking into my session last Friday (and then...
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Triggered or Freefall continued.
I am on a two-week break from BN (Almost done, I see him Friday). Our last session was spent discussing my recovering the existential free fall memory and was very helpful. I’ve been doing a lot of...
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Post Therapy Disruption and Repair OR The Attachment is Still Important
So I have been coping fairly well with being away from BN. Aside from one email that I sent to share some good news, there has been no contact. I think of BN often and occasionally miss him, but not in...
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