The Wiccan Christian

I started with a PE therapist about six (6) weeks ago in conjunction with my regular therapist. Today we had our first real session.

It’s my understanding that PE therapy is fairly new. And they’ve had plenty of successes with it. My regular therapist referred me to her, because me and my regular therapist hit a plateau.

I like the PE therapist as well as I like my original one. She shows a lot of empathy, and asks good questions to keep me talking about things. At least until one story started to roll into another. I told her we’ll have to share that story some other time.

What you’re supposed to do is talk about your trauma over and over until you can recall it and talk about it with no emotion or reaction is left behind it.

She asked me to record myself as I was telling the story, so I did. Now, one of my assignments for the week is to listen to my recording several times until I’ve exhausted my feelings behind it. Then we talk about it again next week.

I feel like I have a lot of instances that were pretty traumatic while dating that man. I don’t even like to say his name. Anyway, because I have so many instances from child to adult, I feel like this is going to take a long time. But I’m grasping at straws here, because I’m starting to get lonely (a little) and have not dated anyone serious since that man. I just get triggered too easily with memories.