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Month: March 2022

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My favourite resources: January – March 2022

My favourite resources: January – March 2022

Here’s another reminder about the purpose of this blog: I really want this blog to be a useful space where people can find all sorts of therapeutically relevant information, mixed up with a good dollop of personal reflections and ramblings with a sprinkling of humour for good measure.  I also want it to be a place where you can find links to all the resources that I share with clients, things that I think have strong therapeutic merit or that are innovative and really want people to see.

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What is EMDR therapy (and how does it work)?

What is EMDR therapy (and how does it work)?

 EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that come from difficult or traumatic life experiences or events. Our brain is super adaptive and usually heals from painful events in the same way that our body heals itself from physical traumas and injuries.  However sometimes, this amazing processing system gets locked or stuck and so psychologically traumatic events get ‘locked’ into our nervous system.  When this happens, it can feel as if we were going through the trauma for the first time, with images, feelings and sensations all being vivid and disturbing.

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Some more thoughts on triggers

Some more thoughts on triggers

I’ve been pondering a bit more on triggers and more specifically what role triggers play in our lives, or possibly could play in our lives.  I wrote a few weeks ago about triggers but more from the perspective of what they are and what we can do with them (if you didn’t see that one, click HERE). One of the questions I’ve been really digging deep into since then is the idea that maybe when we’ve worked through our trauma(s) using some effective psychotherapies (e.g.  EMDR, IFS, SE, EFT, Schema) we might expect to not get triggered any longer.  I really have been thinking about what purpose triggers really play in our lives and whether when we’ve either experienced traumatic events in our lives or have attachment traumas it’s reasonable to expect that we get to a point when we live trigger-free.

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More creative therapy spaces

More creative therapy spaces:

Following a post a couple of weeks ago I thought I would share some more insight into the other non-talk therapies that many of the therapists at Thea Baker Wellbeing (TBW) have specialised training in.  Remember that when it comes to working with implicit memories (things we don’t recall, picture-based memories of) that our bodies, beliefs and behaviours are strongly affected by, it makes sense that we often struggle to find words to explain what we are trying to express.  It makes talk therapy a little slow and pointless.  When we’re working with children or particularly vulnerable people in therapy talk therapy can also be inappropriate, so we love being able to work with a range of creative approaches.

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