What is EMDR Therapy and How Can It Help You Heal?
EMDR therapy is a highly regarded, evidence-based psychotherapy approach designed to help individuals process and resolve distressing memories. Particularly those associated with trauma. EMDR has gained recognition as a leading treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological conditions. By facilitating the brain’s...
The Role of EMDR Therapy in Rebuilding Trust After Betrayal
Betrayal can shatter the foundation of trust that relationships are built upon, leaving individuals feeling vulnerable, confused, and emotionally wounded. Whether the betrayal occurs in the context of romantic relationships, friendships, family, or professional settings, the impact can be profound and long-lasting. While time, communication,...
How EMDR Therapy Can Enhance Your Relationship: A Couples’ Guide
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is well-known for effectively treating trauma. Yet its benefits for couples seeking to heal individually and together are often overlooked. By tackling personal trauma, enhancing communication, and mending emotional disconnection, EMDR can be a powerful resource for cultivating...
How EMDR Can Help Couples Break Unhealthy Relationship Patterns
Unhealthy relationship patterns can feel like an unbreakable cycle. Leaving couples frustrated, disconnected, and hopeless. Whether it’s recurring arguments, emotional distance, or lingering resentment, these dynamics often stem from deeply rooted emotional wounds and unresolved traumas. EMDR therapy is an evidence-based approach that has...
Understanding Developmental Trauma
Understanding Developmental Trauma:The Impact on Mental Health and Well-being Developmental trauma refers to adverse experiences that occur during childhood and can have a lasting impact on an individual's emotional, psychological, and social development. These experiences may include neglect, abuse, witnessing violence, or living in chaotic...
UNDONE. Hope for Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse
Always in search of ways to help women heal from childhood sexual trauma, Sharon wrote UNDONE to fill a void in the church—help for Christian women in search of healing from childhood sexual abuse. UNDONE is an experiential, scripture-based, small group curriculum focused on addressing the impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), and how to...
Come Home
I’m currently reading Emily P. Freeman’s book “The Next Right Thing.” Every chapter, therapy for me. Even therapists need therapy—a gentle reminder that all of the things I tell my clients about hope, grace, forgiveness, authenticity and vulnerability, apply to me too. Her words a soothing balm for the battered and ignored places in...
My Trauma Reading List
Reading is my favorite thing. When younger I read mostly fiction, both classic and modern. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott will forever be my favorite. Jo March is my hero. Over the last few years my focus shifted to books on trauma. The following is not inclusive of all the great books I’ve read but; they are special for various...
Dust in my Pockets
Trauma, especially childhood sexual trauma, tells us we are broken beyond repair—damaged, flawed and unworthy. We classify childhood sexual abuse (CSA) as Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). C-PTSD differs from PTSD in several important ways; most related to our identity. C-PTSD attacks our core—how we feel about...
Trauma and the Body
Trauma memory resides in the body. Our bodies act like the event is still happening even though it is in the past. Because the trauma is “stuck” in the body there are a host of physical symptoms and implications for harm that occur. Dr. Peter Levine, a leading trauma expert, discusses throughout his work the difference between animal and...
