When you have an overwhelming event (because it was severe or because you were weak or sick) your brain is flooded and can’t process the event in real time. The result is that this memory is stored in your brain in an unprocessed form – with the thoughts, feelings, body sensations, images and smell of the event. When trigger happens – they start to “replay” in the same degree they were stored and thus we feel again what we felt back then, even if it’s not appropriate to the present. 

In EMDR we locate those unprocessed events that created what stops or bothers you in the present, and then we reprocess them. During the reprocessing you get back to the stored memory using the 4 channels – sensory, cognitive, emotional, somatic and then we reprocess the event by enabling our natural processing systems to work. 

During the reprocessing the therapist makes sure that both of your hemispheres (the left – the more cognitive one and the right – the more emotional and somatic one) actively participate. In other therapies – talk therapies – mostly the left hemisphere participates thus there is a gap between what we know that we are supposed to think and feel, and what we actually feel. In order to make sure that both hemispheres are in the process we use non-invasive bilateral stimulation. After those events are processed they no longer can be triggered by the present, so your present reactions are no longer a “play” of past events.

“It’s hard for me to describe the enormous impact EMDR has had on my life, on how I conduct myself, in my professional life, where I am just beginning to ourish, and also in my personal life – in my relationship, in how I parent my kids, and in my friendships as well. More importantly, I feel in nitely stronger than ever before, ready to deal with any hardship and uncertainty without fear, because I now know that I won’t conduct myself based on my past and my lack of self-worth, but instead, based on current insights into my abilities to deal with events in the here and now. This is without question the greatest gift I could ever have given myself”.

“About a year and a half ago, I started working at a hi-tech firm, with a  salary lower than I felt I deserved. I took the offer but planned to ask for a raise, after 6 months of proving myself on the job. Six months passed, and another month, and then another, and I hesitated. The thoughts that were going through my mind were: Maybe I’m not good enough. Maybe they are not satisfied with my performance. Perhaps it’s rude of me to ask for the raise… The therapist and I worked together for less than an hour, and while processing I already felt a boost in my self-esteem. Based on the session, I learnt to stand my ground when dealing with authority 

“I was a new mother, but instead of being happy and enjoying the baby, as  I had always imagined I would, I would get irritated with him all the time. I was angry, screaming and impatient. I would cry all the time and daily situations appeared as mountains too high to climb. I felt unable to deal with any challenge. I didn’t even have energy to deal with my husband, and I would get impatient with him. I would argue and angrily explode at him in tears at regular intervals. This was coupled with unbearable feelings of guilt… After starting therapy, I began noticing its influence at home - my patience slowly improved, I was able to enjoy my son and feel much more competent. I simply felt like I had returned to the real me. First of all, the ‘bags’ of guilt simply shrunk and disappeared. I felt as if 20 kg of hardships had fallenby the wayside. I felt more alive and able once again to enjoy the simple things in life, from my son’s 

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