In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Emma Stevens, whose new memoir The Gathering Place: An Adoptee’s Story was written during her treatment with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR has helped her deal with her adoption trauma and other developmental trauma from her troubled childhood.
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TIME STAMPS
3:56 Emma’s adoption story
6:38 Alcohol was part of her family’s routine…and later her routine
11:23 Exploited by a therapist, then found EMDR
12:45 Starting EMDR and her memoir
15:10 Implicit memories stored in our bodies
16:16 Adoption’s primal wound
20:08 EMDR today
24:43 In utero and infant trauma
27:44 Personal growth for struggling teens + for parents of struggling teens
29:22 Dealing with infertility loss
33:23 Reckoning with the Primal Wound with Emma’s cameo
