Dear zenstrawberry:

You are welcome and thank you for the good wishes. I thought about you after I wrote the last post to you and before reading this one. I thought to myself that all the skills you have, zen practices and such will be very helpful in the context of therapy. My psychotherapist taught me meditation, mindfulness, starting me with short guided meditations. He taught me deep breathing, basic stuff. Walking meditation as well (mindfulness)… that was part of my therapy together with his specialty, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The fact that you have these skills will benefit you a lot in handling the strong emotions to come up in therapy.

Please post here anytime.

anita