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When trauma healing feels like betrayal of loved ones

During EMDR yesterday I suddenly felt completely calm about my father's death for the first time in three years and now I'm scared I'm dishonoring his memory.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Letting go of pain feels like losing connection to what you've lost, confusing grief processing with forgetting.

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