Stories from patients
Here are some words from patients during and after working together.
Growing together.
Again a big thank you for yesterday, a rewarding and healing conversation. It's so good to have someone who is impartial, and that you are honest and ask both me and P things. And I think it was important for both of us to hear someone else understand our different sides.
Afterwards we have talked and hugged and said that we have developed so much since we met you – we hang out, we talk and communicate. It is a big change now that neither of us tiptoes around each other and or need to risk anything by asking about things.
I also discovered a few weeks ago that I was getting a lot of life in feelings I had previously had for P but also new ones regarding intimacy. Because we are two people now who have never been so deeply committed to each other and to ourselves.
When I tell him something that is hard for me, he listens and really understands. He takes it seriously and I no longer feel like I am the only one demanding space in the relationship, but that he now WANT me to take space too. It is so much easier for me to share my thoughts and feelings when I trust that I will not be rejected or called oversensitive.
And this is related to intimacy. I have previously believed that it is enough to love P and know that I want to be with him, then the sex life and feelings will also be there. But it has not worked for me…. And I have felt responsible for this, have blamed my traumas or the lack of love and physical contact I never received from my parents. And I have tried to understand, asked myself why it is different now? That I am so attracted to P in a bubbling way? And it is because I have taken a step forward in the relationship – and I have not had to push myself – he has held my hand and said “Come! Come!” It is as if we both understood how, and I now feel that we are discovering each other more and more. Thank you!!! ️️
Phases of healing.
I think I'm starting to believe in myself more, that I can and that I have the strength. At the same time, I understand how weak my belief in myself has been. I've had anxiety that has been simmering and it still flares up from time to time, and I can still feel guilty sometimes when I talk about my parents, about my memories and experiences, or hear an inner voice say that I'm exaggerating or making things up. Those are the words my mother always said. Sometimes I believe those words. But when the anxiety passes, I know that my memories are true.
And the journeys we take in therapy, and the care we take with the memories, are so damn healing and liberating afterwards. I feel that each time I trust the situation and myself more and more…slowly…but I do it! I feel healthier and healthier. I want to get to know myself and become my friend one day – for real. And I feel that it is starting to happen. I feel that I have a support within me that I didn't have before…that tells me that it is good, because I am growing inside, as if I am about to get up… And I am starting to feel that I feel very good in my blood. In my soul. My innermost being. It is calmer, much calmer. But I am very tired. Before you, I was damned alert and barely slept but felt so bad and had such anxiety every day. Now I am tired…but I feel good!!
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Growing as a parent.
I actually feel like I no longer need the last booked session. My relationship with my children, which was the reason I needed guidance and reflection, has been strengthened enormously and I have come to several important insights that help me in difficult situations.
The conversations with you have been so incredibly good for me. Thank you with all my heart because they made me open up and talk about some difficult things for the first time. It feels like I used to look at my story through a filter that is now starting to disappear. Even the way my family communicates and respects each other has changed for the better since I realized my part and role in it all. Once again, thank you, you are awesome!
Sofia Himlafri
Leg. Psychologist
I am extremely happy and deeply grateful for the warm words you share, which give my work even greater meaning.
“It has been fantastic to be able to talk about my deepest sorrows, something I never dared to do until now when I met someone I really feel safe with. To be able to talk about things I haven't told anyone. I feel hopeful. That things can be good in the end.”
Anonymous patient
“It has been fantastic to be able to talk about my deepest sorrows, something I never dared to do until now when I met someone I really feel safe with. To be able to talk about things I haven't told anyone. I feel hopeful. That things can be good in the end.”
Anonymous patient
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