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Why is Actual Healing So Rare?

October 1, 2021October 2, 2021 Thomas Zimmerman

I’m writing this in 2021 from a remarkable and privileged viewpoint.  As a trauma therapist, I see people completely and profoundly heal from past experiences.  I am trained in multiple modern approaches to help clients heal and I am fortunate … Continue reading Why is Actual Healing So Rare?

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Twelve Things Most EMDR Trauma Therapists Understand Deeply

May 1, 2021May 2, 2021 Thomas Zimmerman

You do not need to tell the story of your trauma to someone to heal.  You don’t ever have to find the right words in the right order.  Much of trauma is nonsensible and unspeakable and learning to speak it … Continue reading Twelve Things Most EMDR Trauma Therapists Understand Deeply

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Is EMDR 30 Years Old?

May 27, 2020May 28, 2020 Thomas Zimmerman

The debate continues about the working mechanism of EMDR therapy.  Dr. Shapiro’s original theory that EMDR may be similar to processes in REM sleep is less compelling when we consider the wide range of other highly effective forms of bilateral … Continue reading Is EMDR 30 Years Old?

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Faith, Hope, and Recovery

May 20, 2018May 21, 2018 Thomas Zimmerman

[Invited message for Mental Health Sunday delivered on 5/20/2018 at First Federated Church, North Jackson, OH.  Message follows reading from Ezekiel 37:1-14: The Valley of the Dry Bones.] Good morning.  I’m Tom and I’m a trauma therapist. When I started … Continue reading Faith, Hope, and Recovery

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Regarding the Trauma of Others

April 14, 2018March 4, 2022 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

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Post-Traumatic Growth

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 Thomas Zimmerman

There is a strange place in post-traumatic growth–after most of the hard work is done–that gratitude may start to settle into. Not gratitude just for having survived it. Or, having recovered from it. Gratitude for having experienced it. That emotion … Continue reading Post-Traumatic Growth

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What Healing Looks Like

February 18, 2017April 3, 2022 Thomas Zimmerman

This is a fantastical story.  I probably wouldn’t believe you if our situations were reversed and this were your story.  Still, let me tell you a little about what I see every day in my work as a mental health … Continue reading What Healing Looks Like

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Mindful: A Meditation After Recovery

November 23, 2016November 26, 2016 Thomas Zimmerman

Lord, I’ll take the good. I’ll take the good all day long. This world will give it. Perfect is always on that distant horizon, always almost here. You can swim in good, build your house on top of it, smell … Continue reading Mindful: A Meditation After Recovery

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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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Sunshine

July 15, 2016November 26, 2016 Thomas Zimmerman

The idea that the mind and body already know about healing is incredibly liberating.  It frees me from the burdens of excessive doing and allows more intentional being.  Suddenly, I don’t have to prescribe, or conjure, or orchestrate.  There is … Continue reading Sunshine

Doing Therapy, EMDR, Invisibility, Sunshine3 Comments

Underworld Railroad

June 24, 2016November 26, 2016 Thomas Zimmerman

I transit the underworld every day in the work I do with severely traumatized clients.  If you do this work, it’s helpful to be personally familiar with the terrain.  It’s equally important that you have–for the most part–found your own … Continue reading Underworld Railroad

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