Re:Mute Looping During EMDR

This might help you in the area of dialogue. Before starting EMDR I spent many months with my therapists "talking"....in the beginning (especially with sceens of my husbands crash site) there were so many things in my head that I could just not say out loud. I would journal these things and she would read it. We only then started with EMDR when she knew the whole array of things in my mind. She knew the events of my childhood and she knew in detail the visions that haunted me of my childhood past. For me it did not take long before I was able to begin to say things out loud....she had showed that there was nothing I could say that would shock her....etc etc.

So when I finally did begin the EMDR I was at a comfort level where I had no problems verbalizing during the procedure. Also, she knew my history so well by then that during the procedure I could say one or two words and she would understand what was in my mind at that moment. Im sorry I cant think of an example except for this....the aftermath of my husbands crash and the condition of his body. I would only have to say for example "his leg" and she already knew what part of the crash I was thinking about. The important part in hindsight was her ability to redirect, to calm, and to "erase" the horrors.

Does that help. My verbalization looking back......was actually very little.

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