Thanks to everyone who replied to my original post. When I initially wrote, T and I had just begun 80min sessions of BLS focusing on triggers. My latent concern at that time was that I'd been insufficiently resourced, and that consequently during the post-processing (which lasted most of each following week), rather than the experiences being processed and integrated in a healthy way, I was on the edge of being re-traumatized.
My initial thought was: Well, maybe this is just normal for post-processing-- that the cyclical thoughts just continue ad infinitum and don't calm down or lead to any conscious restorative insights that reduce the anxiety, stress, hypervigilance etc. And sometime, maybe months later, you just notice that that's happened subconsciously and you're "all better"?
The main thing I was feeling during post-processing was that I didn't have anything positive or new whatsoever to effectively counter all the negative, painful thoughts/emotional states. It just felt like I was repeating cycles of destructive emotions and thoughts that I've already gone through repeatedly for years.
I addressed this with T, and after taking a couple weeks' break from BLS, in my "normal" state I can look back at the weeks of post-processing and see that I was pretty plainly spun out and not functioning or thinking in a healthy way.
Has anyone else gone through something similar? If so, how did it resolve? How did you articulate your concerns to your therapist?
And for those who mention you spent a lot of time on resourcing, exactly how long? Multiple entire BLS sessions? Or 10-15min at beginning of BLS session, or just 5 min of tapping in resources daily by yourself at home?
Thanks again to everyone for sharing your experiences. It is so helpful learning what others have gone through with this weird process.