How might EMDR help me?
Of course, how you benefit from EMDR will depend upon what you bring to the process, as well as your own capacities. The evidence base of the AIP model, (the Adapted Information Processing model upon which EMDR is based), indicates it is the the bi-lateral (right - left - right - left) nature of the processing which really brings these benefits. I say more about this in the Psychotherapy pages of this site.
For more specifics see below:
- You feel less stress, distress, panic. Upsetting feelings (shame, loneliness, despair, sadness etc) feel a lot less. You catastrophise a lot less.
- This may mean unhelpful behaviours or habits may get less (eg around smoking, binge-eating, addictions etc)
- You feel more connected to your body. Your feelings or relationship with it might change.
- You feel a lot calmer and able to deal with difficult situations much better, calming yourself if triggered.
- You have more peace in life generally. You feel less burdened by the past, you see it from a wiser perspective.
- You are more grounded in the present, more connected to life/people, and able to make better decisions which really serve you.
- You learn, perhaps for the first time in your life to feel kind, compassionate, appreciative towards yourself
- You have a stronger sense of who you 'really are,' your 'authentic self.'
- You have more clarity about your life, past present and future.
- You feel more hopeful and the future starts to open up in surprising delightful ways.
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