Disappointing Counselling (Feb 2024)
Today Sarah and I had our first counselling since December. She shared that we'd had some positive time as a family over Christmas and on our day hiking trip to the Big Hole and Marble Arch (cave). However, she expressed concern that since the last session she was getting mixed messages from me because I she had seen both positive things and inconsistencies. She had seen that I was seeking empathy, yet I hadn't followed up on something we had agreed to at our last session, which was to meet up to discuss how the kids were going and how we were going. I expressed to her that would seem very confusing and frustrating (practicing my empathy ). Then she continued, I resisted explaining, but expressed empathy to her frustration, and she continued again, and again I resisted rationally justifying, but expressed empathy to her confusion. Sarah expressed that she was getting exhausted holding space to hear about what was going on for me. ←although that sentence is not as harsh as ho