Alina has talked about EMDR a lot on the podcast, and today we are finally going to talk all about it with Rebecca Munini, Alina's trauma therapist!
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and it is an evidence-based trauma treatment modality that changed Alina's life. Every week for a year, Alina sat in Rebecca's office and reprocessed the trauma of finding Quinn dead (...and many other things).
What is EMDR? What is trauma, how does it manifest in the body? How is trauma different than grief, and how can they intersect? What does the process of EMDR look like? Is EMDR right for me? How do I find an EMDR therapist? Rebecca answers these questions and more!
You can find Rebecca here.
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Things we talk about in this episode:
- Francine Shapiro and the history of EMDR
- "Traumatic grief is a sense-losing event..." - Glenda Dickonson
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As Long As I'm Living is a podcast about life, love, and laughter after infant loss. Judith and Alina are rebuilding Happier Ever After one day at a time despite excruciating grief and trauma and offering support to grievers of all flavors, but especially those who have lost a baby to SIDS, infant death, birth accidents, stillbirth, TFMR, ectopic pregnancy, or miscarriage.