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When body-based trauma makes EMDR feel impossible

My therapist wants to do EMDR for my eating disorder but every time I think about my body I want to disappear.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very awareness required for healing feels like a threat when your body has become the site of trauma.

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