EMDR addresses the gap between understanding and change.

Your past lives inside of you. Logically, you know this. You've done enough self-reflecting, watched enough Ted Lasso, and read enough dystopian fantasy to understand that personal history impacts present-day responses.

Frustratingly, your self-awareness doesn't seem to be helping, and you find yourself repeating unhelpful behaviors over and over again.

• Maybe you keep dating the same type of person even though you always end up feeling hurt and abandoned
  
  
• Perhaps you spiral into self-loathing and anger any time someone gives you feedback, even though you get that they're just trying to help
  
  
• You find yourself getting really reactive around certain people in your life, losing your temper and saying things you regret
  
  
• You have a vague sense of unease about yourself and often think "something must be wrong with me"

There's a difference between understanding something logically and healing deeply.

It's a wiring problem, not a you problem.

The bad electrician isn't your fault. 

If you find yourself stuck on repeat, it's likely that old stuff—something unresolved in your past—still has its hooks in you.

Our history gets stored in our body. It's like a bad electrician came into your house and mis-wired everything. You get an unexpected shock every time you turn on your bathroom light, and the switch that's supposed to start the ceiling fan runs the garbage disposal instead. Past experiences stored in the body work similarly—you're always encountering them in unexpected and uncomfortable ways.

You don't have to be in crisis for EMDR to help.

Most people think of EMDR as something for acute trauma—flashbacks, a single bad incident, PTSD. It can absolutely help with that. But EMDR is just as effective for the accumulated stuff: the early beliefs that formed before you had words for them, the relational wounds, the "I'm not enough" or "I have to be perfect to be loved" running in the background.

EMDR is for women who understand themselves well, who can explain their patterns in detail...and still feel stuck. Trauma doesn't care about logic, so insight alone doesn't always reach what's stored in the body. EMDR does.

Your internal electrician is more skilled than you think.

Stop getting shocked by the light switch.

EMDR therapy helps you tap into your internal skilled electrician. Using EMDR to work through old pain means you stop getting zapped by every switch in the house, and the fan turns on as intended. EMDR also helps you connect with reserves of wisdom you didn't even know you had.

Working through past difficulties with EMDR in therapy will help you:

• Tap into previously unrecognized inner strengths
  
  
• Have a better understanding of what past stuff might be getting brought up in the present
  
  
• Soften or shift the intensity of painful memories
  
  
• Experience less reactivity when something happens that reminds your system of old stuff

Ready to move through the places inside of you that are feeling stuck?

I offer EMDR therapy in-person in Durango, Colorado, and online for women across the state. Reach out today, or schedule your free 15-minute consultation call to get started.