EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
emdr and child part
missusscarecrow@yahoo.com · 10/16/02 at 9:17 ET
Hi, I see an emdr therapist and have been with her for several months now, doing ego state work but very little emdr. Yesterday, a small part of me "appeared" -- I'm not sure what word to use to explain it since this doesn't happen a lot to me. I wasn't saying anything and was visibly distressed and my therapist started asking questions: my age, place, year, what the room looked like. The odd part was that she began rocking my chair back and forth while she asked these questions. Which happened so naturally in the context that I wasn't fully aware of it until later. While those questions always calm and ground me I left this session actually feeling "good". I had the sensation of something "processing", the same way as when I have done emdr. Looking back, my gut feeling is that the sense of healing and evolution (the part of self feels differently now) had much more to do with the rocking than with the questions. I have seen rocking referred to as a "natural" sort of bls... and I have read of various emdr techniques to be used with children (including eye movements, drawing, etc) but not this... I don't mean to imply that my therapist was consciously using "rocking" as any sort of technique, emdr or otherwise. I just know it was very pleasant and positive. I, of course, don't need comments regarding my idiosyncratic experience... I am only intrigued by this on an intellectual level... on a feeling level I'm just like "Wow!!!" LS PS I have previously posted as "another client" but came home from vacation to see someone else had used "my" name, lol... I hope it's ok to post the email addy instead, I'm pretty sure no one else has THAT email addy. :)
I am wondering if you or anyone else has any thoughts on this?
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