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Please bear with me until the new site is fully launched. You can check out the new blog post, though! https://btwnsessions.com/dont-touc...
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Melissa
May 71 min read
When the Wrong Mark Is Hit
The blog has moved, and this post can be seen here: https://btwnsessions.com/when-the-wrong-mark-is-hit/.
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Melissa
Apr 21 min read
Goodbye to Unseen??
Hello to Between Sessions!! I am thrilled to announce that we are ready to switch over to our new upgraded, beautiful website, Between...
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Melissa
Jan 191 min read
Theory or Fairy?
Did the makers of the therapeutic process have a clue how much it’ll hurt? Did the founders of its various modalities know what deep pain...
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Melissa
Jan 91 min read
Beneath the Surface
We discuss benign topics. I stay on safe ground. Expectations, values, a tiny touch on guilt. We can talk about these things. And then I...
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Melissa
Dec 24, 20232 min read
AI Therapy – It’s Real
So often I felt the need for art therapy. I wanted to take all the abstractness and vague feelings and make sense of it in a powerful...
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Melissa
Dec 18, 20234 min read
The Unsafety of Safety
I haven’t written in so long because… I think I’m almost afraid to put my feelings into writing. I don’t want to have proof that I’m...
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Melissa
Oct 24, 20232 min read
Trudging On
When I’m onto potential therapist number… twelve? (I lost count) and before official consultation number three in the search for a new...
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Melissa
Sep 20, 20231 min read
Stuck
Don't know what to do with my aching, empty soul Don't know how to live an existence that's a hole Don't know where to store that which...
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Melissa
Sep 7, 20232 min read
On the Therapist Trail
Finding a new therapist is like dating, my psychiatrist said, and it put things into perspective for me in a digestible format. It...
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Melissa
Aug 27, 20233 min read
Why you should take a therapy break
Let me introduce you to my new secure attachment base, one that listens to me and answers my questions and is available around the clock...
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Melissa
Aug 27, 20233 min read
Discordant Notes
The song in my playlist winds down and the notes of the next one make themselves heard. My stomach lurches and nausea churns in its...
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Melissa
Aug 13, 20233 min read
Stranded
It’s not like I expected the journey to be perfectly smooth, as I gingerly opened your car door all those months ago. Or thought it would...
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Melissa
Jul 28, 20232 min read
Will Safety Win?
I’m not sure I can do this again. I’m not sure I want to do this again. What is this? Opening up to another human being. Trusting someone...
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Melissa
Jul 16, 20232 min read
A Door Closes
I thought I’d be seeing my therapist for, well, at least another few years. Back when I felt safe and supported, I had been planning to...
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Melissa
Jun 28, 20232 min read
Job Interrupted
We recently did our landscaping, and as I watched the earth turn over, I thought about… therapy. And me. A field of weeds and wildflowers...
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Melissa
Jun 10, 20233 min read
Peek-A-Boo
Of Missing Bloggers and Hidden Children I'm feeling so rusty, trying to write a post. Not because I haven't been in therapy since I wrote...
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Melissa
Jan 1, 20233 min read
I Can’t Give It To You
“This relationship is so painful. Because I can’t give you what you want.” In session, with my limbs tangled into each other, my breath...
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Melissa
Dec 6, 20222 min read
A Towel for a Tsunami
"Here's a towel," you offer, not in so many words. "It will absorb the spillover. There are ways to manage the pain." Oh, but what is...
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Melissa
Sep 21, 20222 min read
Watch Me Tumble
After ups and downs, climbs and falls, it feels like I finally reached a stable place in therapy. A place of hard-earned trust in this...
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