All good things Alice....
Maybe the real you!
Right now I' m just listing words that describe the piece of me, not me as a whole. I don't really have a 'whole' you see. There's always someone driving the car, and I'm just in the passenger side for the most part. We're all in there (should really be more of a van to fit us in there space wise- lol) but we're all there, the pieces and they all take turns manning the course of our life. It changes the speed of the vehicles progress, we vary off the plotted path into side roads and dead ends from time to time. Sometimes we are lost in a thick fog as we try to find our way through the twists and turns of the ever changing road ahead- but we're all here; we all take turns, each one serves a particular purpose through the course, and while some I definitely don't like (FD for example) there's a reason for their presence and once I find that reason, and come to terms with it- perhaps I won't need so many drivers and I can steer MYSELF in the right direction?
Who is the most important person in your present life, excluding people from the family you grew up in, and your children (and your therapist).
Tell me about ___, what ____ like as a person? Let’s say that you wanted me to get to know ____ as quickly as possible, in just a few minutes – how would you describe ____ to me so that I get a live and full of picture of the kind of person ____ is?
“You described ____ as “___”; can you describe for me how ______ is like “_____”; if it would help, perhaps you provide an example or a story that illustrates this quality.”
For each of the qualities identified in question #22 ask:
“Why do you think that ____ is _____; what’s your theory about why ___ is like that?
“How did ___ come to be someone who is ______?”
(If respondent answers with a literal or reductionistic response, e.g., “I don’t know, I guess because ____’s father is like that,”, then ask: “Well I wonder how it is that _____ became like ____’s father; how did that quality become part of _____?”)
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