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How to work with dissociation during EMDR therapy

My EMDR therapist keeps asking what I notice in my body but I honestly can't feel anything below my neck most of the time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your survival strategy of disconnection is so complete that the basic awareness required for healing feels foreign.

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“Where Are You with EMDR and trauma processing?”

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