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If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
— Joseph Campbell

Resources

EMDR

“The truth is we all suffer at one time or another. Situations arise all the time that affect us negatively. But when we continue to have pain long after the experience itself has passed, it is because the hardwiring of our brains influence our minds… Every experience we’ve had in our lives has become a building block in our inner world, governing our reactions to every thing and every person we encounter…

EMDR therapy targets the unprocessed memories that contain the negative emotions, sensations and beliefs. By activating the brain’s information processing system, the old memories can then be ‘digested.’ Meaning what is useful is learned, what’s useless is discarded, and the memory is now stored in a way that is no longer damaging.”

Getting past your past

—Francine Shapiro, PhD. Author, Getting Past Your Past, Take Control of Your Life with Self Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy

Mindfulness  

Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh

Addiction

Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change by Jeffrey Foote, PhD, Carrie Wilkens, PhD, and Nicole Kosanke, PhD with Stephanie Higgs

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol Find Freedom, Discover Happiness and Change your Life by Annie Grace (plus, This Naked Mind Podcast)

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola

It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults by Claudia Black, PhD

Marriage and Relationship

The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work, by John M. Gottman, PhD and Nan Silver

Trauma

A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD: Compassionate Strategies to Begin Healing from Childhood Trauma, by Arielle Schwartz, PhD

The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk, MD

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What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful method of psychotherapy that has helped an estimated two million people of all ages relieve many types of psychological distress.

HOW WAS EMDR DEVELOPED?

In 1987, psychologist Dr. Francine Shapiro made the chance observation that eye movements can reduce the intensity of disturbing thoughts, under certain conditions. Dr. Shapiro studied this effect scientifically, and in a 1989 issue of the Journal of Traumatic Stress, she reported success using EMDR to treat victims of trauma. 

Since then, EMDR has developed and evolved through the contributions of therapists and researchers all over the world. Today, EMDR is a set of standardized protocols that incorporates elements from many different treatment approaches.