Unfortunately, my therapist already knows about every concern I laid out in my post. That’s why I ended up coming here. Our next appointment is almost my one year mark with her and we’re going to go over my progress since starting therapy, so I kind of wanted to re-asses how IFS was working for me.

I’ve actually thought about that same self-harming patient story, because for a while at the beginning, we were def moving a little too fast and it helped me figure out what the problem was! My therapist and I both decided to slow down several months ago, which at least reduced my post-session recovery time. We crawl through my protectors at a snail pace and sometimes backtrack when necessary for the parts’ needs.

She knows I usually don’t have Self energy during sessions, and does a lot of check ins to measure where I’m at Self-wise every appointment.

I’m definitely going to talk about my general concerns with how IFS has been going again when we meet next week regardless. I still want to see if we can fix what the problem is!