Marie Claire Magazine interviewed EMDRIA members Bethany Warren, LCSW-PMH-C and Mara Tesler Stein, Psy.D., PMH-C about their expertise in EMDR therapy in the article, “Could EMDR Be the Key to Treating Reproductive Health Trauma?”
The article stated: “Information is going from our prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for logic, data, reasoning and impulse control to our limbic system, which is more about emotions and body sensations. “Something will happen that’s so distressing that the process gets disrupted, halted,” says Warren. “Memory gets stuck in a feeling state where it’s reactivated and triggered. EMDR is like the nudge to our brain to say, Hey, remember, you already know how to process memory.”
In addition, “Dr. Stein says that when there’s a disconnect between your body’s experience and the thinking part of you, the solution can be talk therapy, but in some circumstances, that’s not enough. EMDR, on the other hand, is specifically about rebuilding those connections in the brain. “Our nervous systems know how to do this, they know how to metabolize hard, scary, overwhelming things,” she says. “Sometimes our body’s natural capacity for healing gets blocked because that’s what can happen with trauma. EMDR gives the healing parts of the nervous system access to what’s been stuck and allows for integration to happen.”
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