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WHAT IS EMDR?

August 11, 2021

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy engages the body's natural ability to heal. Through EMDR processing, memories stored in a traumatic state in the brain will be reprocessed, repaired, and resolved. EMDR is a research-based protocol.

WHAT IS TRAUMA?

August 17, 2021

You may think of trauma as a terrible car accident, a natural disaster, or abuse. While these are all examples of traumatic experience, trauma can come in for form of absence, as well. A lack of love from a caregiver, a parent who is not part of your childhood, a depressed parent. What is traumatic for one individual may not necessarily be traumatic for another. The brain categorizes situations that we're not prepared to handle as dangerous, threatening and if we don't get resolution around that, it becomes a traumatically held memory. Let's change that together.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO "FLIP YOUR LID"?

August 14, 2021

We know that the brain is a complex organ and that different areas of the brain serve different functions. We have higher level thinking, problem solving ability in the cortex; we have an emotional center of the brain in the limbic system; we have the brain stem that communicates from the brain to the body. When we have a perception of threat or danger, an alarm sounds (the amygdala), our body responds and our thinking part of our brain (cortex) goes offline. This means our nervous system has taken over and we're now in fight or flight.