Getting Past Your Past
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
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EMDR loosens up something in the mind/brain that gives people rapid access to loosely associated memories and images from their past. This seems to help them put the traumatic experience into a larger context or perspective. People may be able to heal from trauma without talking about it. EMDR enables them to observe their experiences in a new way,
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For most people this involves (1) finding a way to become calm and focused, (2) learning to maintain that calm in response to images, thoughts, sounds, or physical sensations that remind you of the past, (3) finding a way to be fully alive in the present and engaged with the people around you, (4) not having to keep secrets from yourself, including
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk MD • 42 highlights
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EMDR sessions are not a power think-think session. If we approach healing in EMDR therapy too abruptly or with too much agenda, healing will run from us. When healing comes, it comes to us slowly and as a byproduct of deep present-based noticing. There is nothing to figure out. The right thoughts come to us as a function of healing. We don’t create
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The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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