Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing

Heard of EMDR but not really sure you understand how it works?  This evidence-based, highly effective form of therapy is designed to help you heal from trauma and other distressing life events through scientifically formulated phases. Bilateral stimulation is used (option of eye movements, tapping, or hand pulsators) while bringing up traumatic/distressing memories. This has been proven to reduce or alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories.

 

Our brains want to heal. A lot of the time, our traumatic memories continue to impact us in the present day because we have not appropriately processed and stored them in our brains, adding in our current day understanding of the situation, more adaptive ways of thinking about it, and with all the new compassion and forgiveness we have for our past selves.

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"In our culture there is a lack of tolerance for the emotional vulnerability that traumatized people experience. Little time is allotted for the working through of emotional events. We are routinely pressured into adjusting too quickly in the aftermath of an overwhelming situation. Denial is so common in our culture that it has become a cliche." - Peter A. Levine