What is EMDR Therapy? What is EMDR for?
EMDR is trauma-informed at its’ core. It is an approach that helps you process distressing memories and come to terms with difficult experiences you have have been through.
These experiences may be recent ones or ones that occurred years or decades ago.
It helps you heal from the emotional and physical / somatic impact of the past and helps uncover why you are the way you are and why you feel the way you do about yourself and other people.
Whilst EMDR is known as a ‘trauma therapy’, the approach isn’t just beneficial for people diagnosed with PTSD, it can be helpful for anyone who finds their interactions with daily life influenced by things that they have been through in the past.
For example, avoiding confrontation and always being the ‘peacemaker’ has often emerged from being exposed to unpleasant experiences of conflict in the past or feeling responsible for everyone else may have emerged from being given too much responsibility too young and the memories associated with that time.
You might find you can rationalise stuff and ‘get’ that you need to change things but you don’t quite ‘feel’ you can. There is often a disconnect or mismatch between what you think and what you really feel and this is why EMDR is so helpful because it focuses more on the feeling side of things and helps the feeling part catch up to the rational part of you.
A big part of EMDR is the emphasis on you getting back control i.e. reclaiming your life, rather than your life feeling controlled by the memory and experiences or feelings of what you have been through in the past.
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