Talked about hyper-vigilance and trust issues fueling hyper-vigilance. No Robert today which was interesting. He asked why we were hugging the pillow. We told him it was to feel more hidden. Talked about hiding with long sleeve shirts and about 3 reasons for wearing a hat all the time - style (← I so got that), to hide and as a sign of guilt. Head coverings in the Bible often represent a person’s humble recognition of sinfulness. He asked what I have to repent of. Oh, I don’t know being a smoking, cussing lesbian I guess. This lead to talk of religious connections growing up. La Regla Lucumi/ La Santeria, Wicca and Catholicism. I stressed that I’m not connected to any of those. It was quite confusing to him I guess why it is our family would be into that. If you toss in the grandfather’s heritage along with their love for all things Hispanic the connection to La Santeria becomes obvious. That sounds bad I know.
We talked about 2 out of the three taboo subjects - race and religion. I suppose Wednesday we’ll talk about politics. Unlike MacBlue he wasn’t anywhere close to offensive. He wondered why our family was so interested in Spain and its religions which lead to background info on familial heritage. Asked what race we consider ourselves. If you ask my grandfather he’d say West African, from what use to be called Zaire. If you ask anyone else in my family they’d say, “What the hell kinda question is that?” I told him I say I’m black, it’s quite simple. I don’t have a lick of Spanish blood in me but the family sure loved that country and spent a heck of a lot of time there. They mostly loved the land and didn’t get too much into locals other than the religion we spoke of. He asked if it scared me as a child, if I participated in rituals. Nope. I sure didn’t.
It was a lighter session than usual. How on earth could that be light? Well, compared to other sessions it was light. After the session we went out to see if our favorite little guy was in the waiting room. He was in session so I didn’t get to see him. His father asked why I didn’t have Captain Crunch with us. He’s basically retired we told him. I offered to trade Captain for their newborn. I got to hold the little guy’s newborn sister and feed her. She’s so precious. She looked all of 3 inches and one ounce the last time I saw her so I didn’t hold her but today I did cause now she’s like 5 inches, 2 ounces…tiny, tiny, tiny.
I got in the cab to come home. While driving home a bus broke down causing a back up on the highway ramp. We sat there for twenty minutes until people started backing up. I shot a photo from the window and did an art piece with it called On The Bridge.
Goals: dinner, trash, watch Spiderman 3 again. I ♥ that movie, gotta get all 3.
Completed goals: raked leaves, walked the dog
Joan
Session Review Religion
Monday, November 12, 2007-11:07PM EST
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