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Hatchett
UWRT
1101
Briana
Hatchett
UWRT
1101
always resulted to raising my voice on accident when I felt that my mom was not making
an effort to listen to what I had to say. She would cut me off and I would get even more
upset, and the volume of the whole situation would escalate. After agreeing to disagree,
which had became a normal practice for us, I immediately grabbed the notebook my
therapist had given me and I began to write.
I wrote about the entire event in valid detail, and I described from my point of
view the reason why the conversation escalated into an argument. Considering that at the
moment I was still heated from the argument with my mom, that detail alone was very
evident to my therapist when she read it and this is why I am glad that it was confidential.
I had become very comfortable with my therapist in the little bit of time that I had known
her, so I was very comfortable expressing how I felt about the situations when I wrote
about them. I knew the only way the notebook entries would be effective was if I was
completely honest about how I felt about each situation. For this reason I was also very
comfortable with her being the primary audience of whatever it was that I wrote. With
that said, I could also say that because she was my only audience it shaped the way each
entry was written.
I most definitely wouldnt have written the same way if I knew that each entry
would have been shared with my mom. With the exception of a cuss word or two, I
never said anything too inappropriate in my entries but I would not have been
comfortable with either one of my parents reading them simply because the entries were
composed from my point of view of each argument which automatically went against
whatever my mom felt.
My parents probably would have disagreed with or disliked
everything I had written down. Sentences like How the hell did we get here?! are
Briana
Hatchett
UWRT
1101
Briana
Hatchett
UWRT
1101
upset, mad or discouraged in which my emotions were actually translated through the
tone and mood of my writing.
Ultimately, the notebook entries were actually very effective in helping my
therapist to understand my stand point on each argument we had, and in turn help my
mom and I to understand the root of each disagreement. Just as I had felt, and
communicated in almost every entry, our therapist told us that each of our arguments
could have been avoided if we learned better communication and if we actually put effort
into listening to each others opinion. My mom and I have continued to practice doing
this, and our relationship continues to get better.