Already I’m doing the healthy things I’ve resisted so long!
Thank you… Susan.

The process was something like this:
you sstate what you are feeling and where the feeling is.
Then you picture the feeling with a word that describes that feeling,
For example: I am feeling fuzzy and it is located behind the eyes.
It looks like lots of puffy cotton balls… blocking my vision. she would have me assign it a color and definition, for example gray and murky. Then she would suggest I picture them and ask them to leave. Next I would see them being disentigrated in some fashion, say, for instance, changing into a series of frothy pink bubbles that escape from my ears and into the atmosphere rising higher and higher. I would describe the result … for instance, a feeling of lightness and a new clarity of sight and mind. Are you familiar with this technique?

The process was cognitive with a twist as you identified the feeling, location, color and then created a way to make it vanish with a happy ending. The new feeling was described and left in it’s place. you had created a new and freer reality in it’s place through visualization and use of your senses. It seemed to work for me at least in that moment. I think it may be because I have A.D.D. and my busy mind was put into a place of creativity.

You seem to have a kind, gentle way of approaching resistance. It has kept me reading your site and coming to realizations that, as in the exercise above, I need to make friends with my subconscious once again… that it is there to protect me. I will keep following your site and try to become more aware and consistant.
THANK YOU for your insight and kindness on such a difficult subject..

I’m sure it’s like the way astronauts have to train to still be able to think clearly at 2 or 3 times the normal force of gravity. No one is (that I’ve met) is good at being in their feelings instantly. The more we practice, the better we get and the deeper we can go.

It’s great that she has you to walk her through it!

Great post! I’m glad I found you!

You’ve got Catherine’s Fear Wrangling package, including my e-book and audio, right? Pull out the e-book and go straight to the Resistance Busters in the back and have another listen to the audio, where I take you through all 4 resistance busters.

The most important part, when you’re feeling like it’s a “death match”, is to soften the battle, create some compassion and some peace around it and also some distance, where you’re not identifying with the whole struggle anymore.
I hope that helps!

There seems to be such a strong association in people’s minds that way, but I really think that we as humans are changing, becoming more aware all the time and that therapy, and even the very concept of therapy, is having to change along with us.