EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re: to Dr. Inobe
Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD · 11/22/02 at 6:42 PM ET
Without commenting on your specific situation, let me say that for many many clients, that which remains to be processed and released is very much in the body. In EMDR we see that body sensations are a big part of what spontaneously arises. Recent trauma research has placedincreasing emphasis on bodily-held trauma, and somatoform symptoms (body). Lots of people with "blockages" to growth and recovery learned that it wasn't safe to feel things in their body, or otherwise disconnect from the body. Sometimes the part of the self that has been disowned is the body itself. I have people speak to the body, and welcome it into the conference room in the mind's eye. I have people thank the body for holding all the baggage all these years, and ask it what it needs. So EMDR, ego state therapy and other methods are sometimes helpful in getting at bodily held material and integrating it.
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