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Category: Developmental Trauma

Developmental Trauma, Doing Therapy, EMDR, Invisibility4 Comments

Unwanted Embodiment

July 5, 2018July 5, 2018 Thomas Zimmerman

If I had a talent when I was young, it was going away.  Retreating deeper into that space that doesn’t have a name.  If I have any talents now, they have grown from what I learned by being alert and … Continue reading Unwanted Embodiment

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Regarding the Trauma of Others

April 14, 2018March 26, 2019 Thomas Zimmerman

All memory is individual, unreproducible – it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that … Continue reading Regarding the Trauma of Others

Developmental Trauma, Doing Therapy, EMDR3 Comments

Sitting on the Floor of a Childhood Home

November 26, 2016April 7, 2018 Thomas Zimmerman

It’s one of the most intense EMDR targets I’ve encountered in working with clients.  It’s also one of the most productive.  There is often a big loneliness that floods in when doing attachment-focused EMDR.  She remembers the awful loneliness of … Continue reading Sitting on the Floor of a Childhood Home

Developmental Trauma, Doing Therapy, EMDR, Sunshine1 Comment

Healing Developmental Trauma: A Meditation

November 11, 2016February 25, 2017 Thomas Zimmerman

I have seen enough deep healing to recognize the irony.  It’s not until you can heal enough that you no longer need anything from them that you can get what you’ve always needed. Developmental trauma is the other trauma.  It’s … Continue reading Healing Developmental Trauma: A Meditation

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