About not doing all the vacuuming...

Dear Dr. Inobe,

I'm not sure, not being a trained professional in this, but I think I know why this happened in this way for me.

I had a very good therapist who always steered me towards clustering the experiences and effects under common threads.

I had also gained a great deal of insight into my parents and their issues and torments through years of regular talk therapy before I ever began doing the EMDR work. And the understanding and the pity I gained for my parents very much undercut the charge of the memories and flashbacks, and so made them available for easy and spontaneous processing.

I still have some residual emotional stuff to work through, and some additional core rifts to heal, but this is nothing compared to what I faced before. And another gift of EMDR is that I know all the healing can be and will be done.

Diane

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Re:About not doing all the vacuuming..., by Sandra Paulsen Inobe PhD, 12/17/02

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