Dear Charlotte:

Your post finds me well, thank you: today I went on a hike on a county trail, with other hikers sharing the paths, and true to the most recent CDC guidelines, announced by the president, people fully vaccinated are not required to wear masks outdoors (except in crowded gatherings like sports events). Fully vaccinated, I did not wear a mask when crossing paths with other people, and it felt good!

As far as your therapist saying that what you and her were to work on in therapy for the next 3- 6 months, if therapy was to end within that time frame- is all up to you and none of her choosing is a disappointing answer. Soon after I started my first quality therapy experience, after a few sessions during which my therapist learned about me, he gave me a printout with clearly stated objectives for my therapy and how he intended to meet those  objectives, within the work we did  together. Later in therapy he edited and updated that printout. When I was about to end the therapy, he presented to me what he thought was most important to work on in the time left.

Interestingly enough, it just occurred to me, my therapist at the time moved across the country to New York and lives and works, last I read, somewhere outside NYC.

anita