{"id":2744,"date":"2011-11-07T00:04:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T05:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2011-11-07T00:04:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T05:04:34","slug":"karen-answers-lola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2744","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Lola"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Comment by Lola on 01 Aug 2011 at 6:49 am<\/p>\n<p>Hi Karen,<\/p>\n<p>I recently began my journey in therapy and feel very uncomfortable in sharing. I read you also had a hard time. Can you tell me what to say or to expect and how can talking about my pain help my future?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, you are the strongest most sincere person I ever read about.<\/p>\n<p>Lola<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Lola,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing. I do understand you feeling uncomfortable sharing. I felt uncomfortable, too! Most of my early sessions I spent in fear of sharing. What did I fear? That Dr. Baer would stop treating me or think I was disgusting. I was sickened by what had happened to me. I felt ashamed and afraid to share my truth. But in order to move forward,\u00a0 I knew I had to start somewhere. I admit, it took some time, but together with my therapist, we established rapport and I began to trust him. Once I started, I couldn&#8217;t stop talking. Finally, I felt I could share without judgment. I felt secure and able to share everything in the safety of therapy. Please know that it&#8217;s best to share with your therapist so that together you can build your therapy relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t be too hard on yourself. It takes time to heal and begin sharing what you had so successfully kept hidden within yourself. But from my experience I know my sharing felt like releasing a ton of bricks. \u00a0It was a freedom that I never thought possible. Keeping dark thoughts and secrets made me ill. As I shared, I started feeling better. It was an amazing feeling once I started to release my past and let go of the junk that kept me imprisoned within myself.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you all my best as you continue your journey to wellness.<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Lola on 01 Aug 2011 at 6:49 am Hi Karen, I recently began my journey in therapy and feel very uncomfortable in sharing. I read you also had a hard time. Can you tell me what to say or to expect and how can talking about my pain help my future? Thank you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}