Recent content by makibrd

I first be I'm interested in your comment about the EMDR not working with early trauma. I am attempting EMDR for the second time (first time was 10 years ago) and I don't know if It's working or not. My issues are rejection and abandonment and I'm desperate to get better but I feel awkward when...

My dad didn't like fat girls either so i starved myself when I was younger and then when I got married... Well he was disgusted by fat people in general. Come to find out he was emotionally unavailable to me just like my father and mother and guess what??? I'm now considered morbidly obese. The...

my cognition is... all my feelings are o.k. It works for me because I can't work through my feelings if I don't own them.

Thank you for sharing your story. I also came From an emotionally abusive family where I was not allowed to express any feelings . If I cried, I was told to stop feeling sorry for myself. This lead to a victim mentality and crying over Everything. Now since doing EMDR I feel so much anger and...

Can I ask how long it took for you to be able to release the anger? I Started EMDR several months ago, but find myself getting embarrassed to express anger at all. Now I've noticed I'm irritable, use cuss words which I never used to do and I actually feel like I'm worse now then before I started

His book Homecoming is pretty good

I have just started doing "inner child" work and I need to write a letter also but I feel so much fear at doing it that I avoid it. I'm wondering if this is why I eat anything and everything as a way to feel or a way to avoid feeling the pain. In the process the "critical parent" shows up and...

I know for me that anger is only a symptom of a deeper issue. Mine being rejection. I try to run situations through my mind before they may happen to try and handle it differently. Most times i still blow it, but it helps to remind my self that the anger doesn't make me a bad person, its just...

I am new to this site and have never done anything like this before (opening up to strangers) However I am desperate at this point in my life. I am a single parent of three grown children whom I have become very dependent on and they all but one have moved away. Although I came from a very...