Tag: Talking Therapy
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Trauma Session 4. Day 5 Debrief.
In the spirit of continuing to share for anyone else out there either navigating therapy or considering it, here is the low down on session Four of trauma work. We didn’t talk about the traumatic events in the last session, we mostly spent the time reflecting on the previous session and some broader considerations. It…
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Trauma Therapy Session 3, Day 6. Hungry for Happiness.
This blog feels like a messy one to write, on this journey of therapy I am learning so much, but I am also exposing new fears. Lesson 100! I haven’t freely felt emotion for decades… I never knew before starting this journey that I have been constantly holding back. Resisting the drive to feel for…
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Trauma Therapy Session 3: Hard Work Started
So this week was the third session of trauma therapy. Having found last weeks session fairly easy going, and having enjoyed a relatively good week, I was prepared to have to knuckle down this week and start the real work. A did a lot of preparation and perhaps recent events gave me a good shove…
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Trauma Therapy Session 2: Day 4, Five ways to navigate the trauma in the day to day.
Following the last session I am defiantly doing a lot better. I am hoping that it is not because the last session was fairly easy going. I am hoping it is because that initial storm has passed. That all the emotions spilling out of me have finished their job. I am still aware there might…
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Trauma Therapy Session 2: Day 1
As is often the case with these sessions before hand I consider all the possible conversations we might have, all the variations of paths we could take and the only thing that is always true, none of my predictions are ever right. It makes me wonder if there is much value in worrying about it…
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Scared to talk. Therapy is not always easy, but when was happiness easy.
I am shitting myself about having a conversation. How ridiculous is that. I started another round of therapy last autumn. I have always struggled with my sleep, but in times of stress it just gets awful. I often lay awake for hours unable to get to sleep. Have horrendous nightmares some times to such an…
Rowan Aderyn 