2024 - TWENTY FIRST SESSION

[ehowton]

Tess was in her (what I call), "Fireside chat" mode so not overly therapeutic. Jennifer joined me for session, sitting adjacent me in the hotel room. Her and Tess seemed to mesh well, having several ideologies in common. She started the session with her and Jennifer talking about all my positive traits and how fun I was. I haven't felt fun since I left New Mexico.

Tess asked if I'd had an epiphanies this week, and I let her know I hadn't thought about it nor could I come up with one off the top of my head. Now that I've had time to ponder the question, I would have told her that I have figured out I've emotionally cocooned myself in such a way I was having a difficult time breaking free from it once I realized where I was.

Tess did agree that my, "anger" was likely masking something deeper on the emotion wheel, her guess was hurt or fear - I haven't yet spent any time with the wheel since I last mentioned it, nor introspected it with that in mind. She asked for Gabby's contact info then Jennifer took me out to dinner at the only open Mexican joint in town :D

Comments

[ubet_cha]

Imagine a three dimensional cube or sphere whose many components are interlaced like a complex puzzle. That's how I see our emotional core. They're right your "anger" could be a coping mechanism which is preventing you from resolving an internal dilemma. That could be a good thing as you're accepting a few other changes first. Nothing worthwhile is easy. So were the enchiladas any good?


PS - Apologies for using cube or sphere while you use wheel. How did we become conditioned to use metaphor and analogy so much? Is it our culture?

[ehowton]

Probably a way to distill and illustrate concepts in an easily tangible format :P But I do like the [cube,sphere] visual as well as that sounds far more accurate!