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Somatic Experiencing, EMDR and Brainspotting all come out of the latest research that memory in encoded in the body. The goal is to find and address it, moving it out of your body. Many believe that it is a much less painful process (I concur) and perhaps it is why many have not gotten enough...

Hi Lilly, I am a trauma survivor and also a trauma therapist. i don't like to disclose this in this forum but feel compelled and perhaps protective of the members of this discussion. I would NEVER do trauma work via phone with any client. Trust your instincts.

Hi Junebug.I fully agree that we need the support of others! It just can feel so risky when the one's we needed support from hurt us. Small steps. Love from a Dog is the best. We want healing, not just surviving .In my view, .we need to learn how to set boundaries and bring people close (not too...

I am glad we are having this discussion but it makes me so sad. PTSD is not a "mental illness" we are born with. You take a perfectly healthy person/child and expose then to unspeakable horror and they develop PTSD. We were each born healthy and we owe it to ourselves to find the way back to our...

Hi. It sounds to me that you are too scared to really feel alive. There is no treatment that can work on rebuilding if you don't want to acknowledge the desire to have a life. I know alot about depression and often pull myself out of the bottom of the dark pit also. Sometimes all I can do is...

I sit on both sides of the couch-so to speak. I am a trauma survivor and a therapist working with trauma survivors. Talk about having a purpose :). I just want to mention that I have had and given alot of help but moving the trauma out of my body. Memory is in the body. i use brainspotting...