EMDR

Change is possible, but not until we face what we are afraid to face. Perhaps it is your past. Perhaps it is a part of yourself you wish to deny. Perhaps it is family dysfunction. Perhaps it is the bad decisions you have made. Regardless,…

I know it’s a hard truth to swallow, but healing is difficult. Healing can be painful. Healing takes time. But being unhealthy and dysfunctional is painful too, and often has been going on for years and years. Healing is worth the effort and the time…

This is similar to what some trauma survivors can experience, and is especially common for military personnel and veterans suffering from PTSD. When a person experiences a number of very emotionally heightened experiences, they can then come to feel that common, everyday experiences seems dull…

Again, this quote is from Francine Shapiro’s EMDR therapy handbook. And what this quote is saying is that in EMDR therapy, the events we work to reprocess and desensitize don’t have to be THE truth. In EMDR therapy we make no promise that we can…

I find this a lot in working with clients with a history of attachment trauma. There is the constant quest for why; why their parents behaved the way they did; why did they turn out the way they did; why did these things happen to…

This quote comes directly from Francine Shapiro’s EMDR therapy book. I often hear questions about why trauma gets stuck in the brain the way that it does, why it is not processed like every other memory. According to EMDR therapy and the Adaptive Information Processing…