Dear Mom

There are some things happening in therapy right now that are directly related to some "old unresolved feelings" about my mother. My mother in what seemed to me that people around me loved very much. My observations and what I thought and felt are mine alone. They may not be reality that others saw or felt.
To ME.. It appeared as if I wasn't allowed to FEEL things "bad or negative" about my mother. I recall people telling me over and over how much my mom went through as far as Susans death, dads death, all of the trauma our whole entire family endured. When I did say things "negative", I received such statements.."well your mom went through so much". I ended up feeling guilty for having any anger, or any other feelings about my mother that others seem to take the wrong way.
It is with reluctance that I write this... It is going against all fibers of my being. After all.. I am "supposed to love my mother".. Not have any hate or discontent for her.
Here it is:

To my Therapists:
Dear mom,

I might as well address this to both my therapists and my mother. The feelings I am having about what is happening in therapy are coming from feelings I have held toward you, mom.
For YEARS, I heard mom say.."why can't you be like Susan. I wish you were more like Susan". These statements have made a profound impact on my life, mom. Today, they are interfering with the therapeutic process. I recognise this. I want my therapists to know it too.
It's all coming out in therapeutic notes made by a former therapist. She is no longer in my life. I still miss her from time to time. My desire is to have these notes. I could never explain why these are so
important to me. They are though.
It feels like these notes are being kept from me.. Like some terrible secret I already know. This is
DIRECTLY connected to Susans death. I have ALWAYS felt that I knew.. Long before anyone
actually told me.. How sick Susan really was. I was watching her die.. After all... She and I were very close..
I don't know the facts.. Just the feelings associated with it all.. All the whispering.. All the things "not said" but said.. All the Jill is too young.. Don't say things in front of Jill. Things like that.. Are embedded firmly in my brain. It could very well be just a belief I had about Susan. I am not sure. I DO know that it is how I still see things today.
My not being able to have those notes are like that. I hear the therapist say things like, "I want to be protective" ect.. And it stirs that place within me. The place that is all Susan related.
Gosh darn it mom.. I KNOW something is wrong with Susan. I can SEE it.. Smell it.. Hear it.. Why can't someone just tell me instead of hiding the obvious. Can't I grieve with you? Be angry with you? Cry with you? No! You say.. To weak.. To vulnerable.. To little.. You can't handle it.. So just stay out of it... You weakling!
All right. I was just a little girl. My mother was trying the best she could with the situation. I don't
know that I would have done different than she did.

That trauma is stirring though. I acknowledge that. I acknowlege that these notes are expressing all of that trauma out into the theraputic relationship. I see and recognise that "grasping for the notes" are an outward expression of therapy in general.. My life.. In general. Yes. Having a "friend" with the possibility of cancer has stirred me. It has stirred that place of trauma. I know that. I just can't fix that right now.
I also want to say that I have wanted to go through B's notes from the BEGINNING of therapy with C. M. I have been under the assumption for 5 plus years that we would. It SEEMS this never happens. That somehow that little one gets in the way.. Or Jenifer.. The pathetic borderline personality disorder.. Something... And it's right back to me feeling like I did with Susan. I don't like it and I want it to STOP!
The place of "Why can't you be more like Susan" is stirred too. I hear the thearpists tell me what they
are looking for in order for me to even "know the truth of what B wrote". They have both said things
that in my mind are an impossible task. In fact, there were times in which each separate therapist was
telling me what they wanted from me.. I heard "yelling" from inside. "THATS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!"
I just want to say that.. I am sorry mom. I have tried to be that butterfly. I have tried all these years to fly like her.. Be like her..
But with all of my effort.. I always ended up failing miserably. Each and every time I couldnt "be like Susan".. I failed. I am tired mom. I am tired of trying to be something I am not. I was never meant to have wings like hers. I was born an animal.. Not a bird. Every time I put on fake wings for you and flutter around.. It hurts me, mom. Can't you see the scars it leaves on my body when I put on that suit?
I am sorry too.. Therapists. I will never be able to fly like that. Not ever. So... If that means I must let go.. And "be weak" then.. So be it. It seems a bit silly and unproductive to have something so simple as a bunch of notes be a "deal breaker".....
I am tired mom.... I am not a bird and I can't fly like that.