The EMDR Podcast

Dip Your Toe In Metaphor

• Understanding Traumatized Nervous Systems
  • Bodies Can be Triggering
  • Inside Can be Triggering
  • Noticing Can be Triggering
  • Calming or Slowing Down Can be Triggering
  • Paying Attention to the Body Before an Audience Can be Triggering
  • Performance Anxiety Related to All of This Can be Triggering
  • Resistance Not a Useful Concept
• Dip Your Toe In Provides Needed Information
• Beware Agendas
  • Beware Informing Clients What the Should Feel or What Mindfulness Will Do
  • Therapist Agendas: Back to How we Teach Mindfulness, and the Cinderblock on the Gas Pedal
  • Many Clients with Complex Trauma Believe that they have Failed Trauma (and are about to Fail EMDR Therapy)
  • Aspirin for a Headache Metaphor