My goal for the day was to go to have a massage. The only thing I was going to get a massage by someone I hadn't seen before.
When I told my counselor that I was no longer going to be going to this one person, she told me that I needed to get a massage by "Nicole" because "her mother was almost as bad as yours". When I tried to schedule a massage with Nicole, I learned that she was on maternity leave, thus I had to have a massage by a different person.
I so enjoyed my massage today, because I have been having problems with sinus congestion, etc.
Anyway, when I went to the counter to schedule another massage in two weeks as I do need it, I was given the date which would have been my mother's birthday, boy, did I react to that. I told her that I would rather not, and scheduled it for the next day.
What I realized through this experience, was how glad I am that I haven't been seeing my counselor, told her I needed a "break" about a month ago and how much her words had an affect on me and honestly I wish she hadn't said them!