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Whether trauma therapy is worth pursuing later in life

My adult daughter wants me to try EMDR for my childhood abuse but I'm seventy-two and I don't see the point of digging up old pain now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Decades of adaptation have created a life structure around your wounds, making change feel more threatening than staying the same.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with EMDR and trauma processing?”

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