good talk

I'll be trying to remember these things that I learned at a well-spent hour of really great therapy:

1. Feelings are real.
2. Everybody has different feelings.
3. Everybody owns his or her own feelings.
4. Different is just that--different.
5. Intense events that are allowed to bloom into catastrophic future mental events carry the catastrophic feelings, not just the intense feelings.
6. Catastrophic is not necessarily real. Or necessary. Or real.
7. Real is real.
8. Filling pots with purples and yellows and greens in dirt is just one of many soothing activities.
9. Well done is not all done. But closer.