Not sure. Maybe she thinks it’s something you are still struggling with. Hard to know. You should ask her to clarify what she means.

why

My guess is that she thinks you are repressing the emotions attached and believes you need to take them out of their isolation chamber and let yourself feel what you went through.

But I am only guessing. . . Again, I would ask her directly if I really wanted to know.

My guess is based on the fact that I have a well established herstory of repressing my emotions. My shrinks turned out to be right on this score. I now believe that I wasn't fooling anybody but myself when I repressed my emotions. Working so hard to fool myself made me seriously unstable.

what does that have to do with anything?? is that why you have anxiety? Do you talk about it a lot in therapy
I stopped my therapy due to SW falling asleep when I was talking

To process the information of 'surgery'-it begins with the reason for the surgery, the preparation of the surgery, the actual surgery, the post surgery, the recovery of surgery.

To process the 'experience' of surgery is to work out your feelings, emotions, thoughts, and words.

Big difference in the two ways-one is to help heal the 'hurt' within that is NOT taken care of by the surgery itself, but through your willingness to work through the entire process and the feelings associated.

Example: I had the choice of surgery for my ankle pain when two different surgical procedures would have to be done with the possible result that neither procedure would be effective in reducing the pain I was incurring.

I was told to give the one injury a year to heal and then consider surgery if it still required surgery. The other injury is still healing.

In the therapy session, the reason the injury happened was processed, the reason for the surgery was processed, and the option of waiting a year was also processed-at home, on my own, through a series of homework assignments on each of the sections.

The therapist is probably giving you the starting point to help you choose how you want to work through the experience.

Best wishes.

Bay, did you report the SW falling asleep? That's wrong of them to do that.

I would guess that she wants you to look at how the surgery affected you emotionally--as, was it traumatizing? do you still hold fears connected with it? have you dealt with the issues that caused you to get the surgery, and the effect the surgery will have on your life.

i avoid my emotions with therapy yes i do still hold fears connected to it and i had a particial hystericmony because i had a tumor in my stomach