There are many, many, ways to develop and use attachment figure resources in EMDR Therapy. This is just one approach. This version guides the client to install nurturing, protective, attunement, and guidance qualities into the attachment figure resource. You are … Continue reading A Script for Developing, Practicing, and Using Attachment Figure Resources in EMDR Therapy
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
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
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
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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