How do you know you had a dream last night? Not because someone told you. Not because you think it was real. You know because you saw it on a screen in your mind and because of the felt sense—that subtle, familiar quality of oh right, that happened… but not here, not now, not anymore—it’s […]
You’ve probably heard the old phrase, “life is but a dream.” When we were kids, we used to say life is butter dream. And maybe we weren’t wrong: life is soft, slippery, rich—something you can taste but never quite hold. Something that slips through your fingers just as you try to name it. From a […]
“What we’re really doing is helping the nervous system change what it expects.” Trauma is not just what happens. It’s what the nervous system learns to expect afterward as it goes forth in life. A raised voice. A kind face. A metal pole. A church bell. The body links these cues in the neural networks, […]
“First you learn the steps. Then you start dancing with the client.” Most creative practices follow the same arc: you start with technique, then move into freedom. Music, painting, performance, therapy—it’s all the same. Mastery comes when form gives way to flow. EMDR is no different. At first, the therapist follows the manual. The standard […]
People come to therapy wanting to know what’s happening. But the real shift begins when they’re willing to go from answers to wondering. In both life and therapy, we often search for clarity: a diagnosis, a label, a fixed solution. But healing doesn’t unfold through certainty—it deepens through curiosity. Clients often ask: What’s happening to […]