Like it or not when you’ve found a loving, safe relationship after surviving childhood trauma or an abusive adult relationship, it doesn’t matter how safe and loving your relationship is, your trauma brain isn’t going to rest without some active intervention from you. Your trauma brain isn’t going to easily let go of hyper-alert status. …
How Does EMDR Work? Interview with a Survivor Therapist
In this Podcast episode, I talk with Liliana Hernandez about trauma, EMDR and the Trauma Erase Method. Here's a partial transcript. Click the play button above to hear the whole conversation (and get to know me a bit more). You can listen for free. Working With Trauma As Long As Bessel van der Kolk Liliana Hernandez:Thank you. Thank you. …
Yes, EMDR online works! Insights from a Survivor/Therapist
This post talks about personal and professional experiences with online EMDR. If you'd like to read a study showing the impact of this method of therapy via telehealth, click here. The Overwhelming Effects of Childhood Trauma As a therapist who is also a survivor of childhood trauma, I’m acutely aware of how overwhelming Complex PTSD can be. …
When You Think You’re Not Healing, You ARE
Hey there. It's Tamara, the therapist that's been there, and I just want to talk to you about a couple of things that can make you feel like you're not healing from your complex PTSD, when you actually are. One of them is those larger trauma responses that feel like they're part of who we are, when they're actually not. The other is those little …
How Does Anxious-Preoccupied Attachment Show Up Because of Childhood Trauma?
Anxious attachment is the consequence of having a high level of personal anxiety while you think highly, maybe too highly, of others. As a result of thinking badly about ourselves and highly about others, an anxiously attached person will look to relationship for stability and comfort, because they are unable to self-soothe. If this is your …
Is There a Faster Way to Heal Childhood Trauma (EMDR)?
In this video, I'm going to tell you why I avoided EMDR for years, and why I decided to try it and to get trained in it, and what happened for me in just three short EMDR sessions. You'll also want to stay tuned until the end of the video, because I'm going to you, my recommendations about who I think EMDR would work for and who maybe should stay …
