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EMDR Not Working for You? Here are the Possible Reasons
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapeutic and transforming journey that assists you in reconnecting with the completeness and wholeness of who you are. It removes the toxic imprint and reveals the core of who you are, and also allows you to...
Is it Possible to Establish a Success Rate for EMDR Therapy?
A traumatic experience can have a profoundly damaging influence on the human mind, with long-term devastating consequences. As a result of traumatic events, PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, follows. These traumatic events might leave you with incredibly vivid...
How to Develop a Safe Place For Your EMDR Session? Here are Some Script Examples
As one of the best therapies for trauma, depression, and anxiety, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be highly effective in just a matter of weeks. However, there are some challenges that therapists must address. While EMDR relies on bilateral...
3 Simple EMDR Exercises to Practice Any Time of the Day
One of the most effective therapies for trauma, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), can also be self-administered. However, even if you’re doing it with a therapist, you’ll learn some techniques and exercises that can help you any time of the day. ...
Targeting Negative Cognitions with EMDR and A Short List of Examples
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) treatment is particularly beneficial for people struggling with traumatic memories or who have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). The therapy identifies a target image and a negative cognition as part of the...
What is EMDR Nightmare Protocol and How Does It Work?
To different people, trauma may signify different things. It is possible that the horrific incidents you went through were not the same as the ones we see on television. Trauma is best characterized as something life-changing or terrible at the time it occurred and...
Should You Do an EMDR Intensive? Check with Your Therapist!
EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy is an excellent treatment for trauma-related issues. Although EMDR treatment is most commonly used to treat PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), it can also be used to treat depression, anxiety, and other...
EMDR vs. CBT, Which Therapy Should You Use?
Thanks to the advancement in technology and psychology, we now have various treatments for addictions and mental illnesses. Consequently, you will probably want to try something different if one type of therapy does not work for you. Nevertheless, it is not easy to...
How Does Somatic Experiencing Therapy Online Work and Is It for You?
Trauma is an unfortunate reality of life. It can impact anyone at any point in life, leaving emotional and mental scars that can hamper the way of life. Many therapies exist for dealing with trauma in a healthy way, including Somatic Experiencing (SE) therapy. Trauma...
Is Remote EMDR a Good Option?
Trauma can be a life-changing event that can result in mental disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It can also result in stress and anxiety that disrupts a person’s life and relations. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has been...
How Does An EMDR Therapy Online Session Work?
When faced with traumatic experiences it can be hard to move on from them. You may have tried to forget about what occurred or suppress your emotions at first. But you must process your tough memories and feelings in order to actually feel better. One of the most...
Do You Talk During EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, can appear to be a very unusual form of therapy when people are first introduced to it. The idea that eye movements can help process uncomfortable memories can seem very strange for those of us who believe the...
Stress, Addiction, and Meditation – What’s the Connection?
Whilst there are often many different contributors towards addiction, it is fair to say that stress is one of the main driving causes, since it has predictable effects on the mind and brain. What is the connection between stress and addiction and are there any ways to...
Top 6 Reasons You Should Practice Mindfulness (In Detail)
In this article we want to gather together a collection of all the possible benefits regular practice of mindfulness meditation can bring. We have sought to include less obvious benefits as well as the more commonly mentioned ones. When we begin to see all the...
Top Tips If Mindfulness Doesn’t Work For Anxiety
We have detailed elsewhere on this site that mindfulness can be an excellent tool for all sorts of mental conditions, including anxiety. But what if you suffer from anxiety, are practicing mindfulness to try and help with it, and yet are not finding it very effective?...
Mindfulness For Overthinking
Many of us can often get into a state of overthinking about a problem, or just life in general. Our mind can end up going round and round in circles, yet we seem to be getting no closer to any kind of clarity or solution and our anxieties and worries only seem to be...
The Buddhist View on Addiction (Multiple Perspectives)
There are many different perspectives on addiction from both the secular and religious worldviews, and each of them has a different take on the subject. But what about the Buddhist perspective on addiction? Western readers may not be so familiar with this line of...
EMDR vs. Talk Therapy (Complete Comparison)
Some people find that standard talk therapy isn't particularly effective for helping them solve their problems, or else progress is painfully slow despite the often high cost of private counselling and psychotherapy. We talk specifically about people suffering from...
EMDR vs. Mindfulness Meditation (Complete Comparison)
EMDR and mindfulness are two practices which are growing in popularity as ways of letting go of past traumas and finding some sense of internal calm and peace. Just how closely related are they though in terms of how they work and their effectiveness? EMDR and...
Can’t Get To Sleep Before An Important Day? We Have Solutions
This is an extremely frustrating problem for those of us who have stressful jobs, or shift based jobs where we are finishing late and starting early in different patterns, or else we have something else important on the next day (exams, assessments, job interviews,...
Can EMDR Help Treat Phantom Limb Pain (PLP)?
Phantom Limb Pain or PLP can be an irritating and debilitating condition for amputees, with conventional pain treatment often ineffective. Is there any evidence that Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR can help with this condition. EMDR has proven to...