Healing Childhood Trauma: Harnessing EMDR and Inner Child Restoration Dr. Francine Shapiro highlights how negative childhood memories, entrenched in specific neural pathways, linger in a frozen and dysfunctional state within the brain. This phenomenon explains the triggers associated with past traumatic experiences. Employing EMDR alongside reparative and imaginative techniques facilitates the release of these traumatic…
The False Self is Born From Childhood Trauma
The false self is born In a dysfunctional family. Children need to belong and feel significant in their families.Because of this need, a child longs for approval and will find creative ways to establish this need, such as pleasing people, rising to the golden child, being the good one, the scapegoat, and playing the hero,…
EMDR is Effective in the Prevention of Post Trauma Injuries for First Responders
EMDR is Effective in Preventing Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries as well as Treating Post-Traumatic Symptoms for RCMP and First Responders. As an RCMP member, military or veteran, If you find yourself saying, ” I am weak if I ask for help,” you may find this article helpful. The idea that a police member or first responder…
EMDR4Ukrainebc
Ulyana (Translator Extraordinaire) Crystal Arber This past weekend we accomplished a successful EMDR group workshop. Using a popular evidenced-based group protocol 17 women processed the worst and most disturbing parts of the invasion of Ukraine. Our team is grateful to the society of Ivan Franko who hosted our event and helped make the workshop a…
Free Psychological EMDR Services For Displaced Women of War –
Donate What Our Trauma Recovery Network Has Accomplished Our Trauma Recovery Team EMDR HAP has been busy facilitating workshops to help offer free psychological EMDR workshops for women and their children fleeing from the war. We now have a team of 14 therapists who are providing EMDR translation and free follow-up counselling! Sponsors and Hosts…
Sex & Abuse of Power
Sex & Abuse of Power 2022 – June 29th – is an incredibly historic day for women and in particular for black women. A famous artist with lots of power is brought down for human trafficking, sex abuse, and child pornography. R.Kelly Justice is served. I have never witnessed anything like this in my lifetime….
EMDR in a Group- Benefits
The benefits of doing EMDR in a group are : Community and friendship Being with peers who have had similar experiences You don’t have to talk about your trauma A private experience in a community The benefit of processing in an intensive format for more than one hour is to release nasty negative emotions and…
Goodbye EMDR 90 mins Hello EMDR 2.0
EMDR 2.0 created by Dr. Ad de Jongh is a fast effective technique. Drawing from the theory taxing the working memory, research has shown that using multiple forms of bilateral stimulation at the same time while focusing on the most disturbing aspect of a traumatic event can reduce disturbance as fast as 10 minutes. While…
Military Sexual Trauma
Sexual trauma is a reality in most systems including the military. If you are a woman who has been sexually harassed or assaulted within your workplace by a higher-ranking boss, you have been morally injured. Betrayal within your team and by a supervisor is the worst kind of betrayal. Initially, the betrayal such as sexual…
Are you a Physician Dealing With Compassion Fatigue? What if it’s Ongoing Traumatic Stress That Can Be Treated?
Pre COVID we read a lot about compassion fatigue and burnout. These terms are commonly used by health care providers and educators. Understandably healthcare educators want to help the helper by teaching good self-care strategies to physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals. While self-care methods are very important; I want to stress that these methods…
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