EMDR

Tatiana Johnson-Boria

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a psychotherapy
that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress
that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show
that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of
psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely
assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR
therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma
much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your
hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or
repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the
block is removed healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a
similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s
information processing system naturally moves toward mental
health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a
disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense
suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. Using the
detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training
sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

Once the block is removed healing resumes.

The first time
I start
medication
for depression
I imagine
a light thing
burying

(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a
psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and
emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences
Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can
experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a
difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a
long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal
from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical
trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound
If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and
causes pain. Once the block is removed healing resumes. EMDR
therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with
mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally
moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by
the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can
cause intense suffering . Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy
training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing
processes.

I pull up my birth chart
for the seventh time
blame the neurosis on
my Mercury in Virgo
I pray to the planets
wonder about god
loving me
if I replace him
with stars
of my making

Once the block is removed healing resumes.

The house burns
On my father’s tongue

It kindles his voice
A wrecking

The house is not a house
It is space next to
Space just the same

As any house for sections
Of the city both
Poor and unwhite

The rice is not white
Because I’ve scorched it to ash

(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a
psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and
emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences
Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can
experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a
difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long
time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from
psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical
trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound
If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and
causes pain. Once the block is removed healing resumes EMDR therapy
demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental
processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves
toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the
impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause
intense suffering . once the block is removed , healing resumes. Using the
detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training
sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

My father stops
The burning
Before we all die

In the dead
Of night
I am learning
A lesson

The light
Of the stove
Smolders
If left alone

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(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy
that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress
that are the result of disturbing life experiences Repeated studies show
that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of
psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely
assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR
therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma
much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your
hand, your body works to close the wound If a foreign object or
repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the
block is removed healing resumes EMDR therapy demonstrates that a
similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s
information processing system naturally moves toward mental
health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a
disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense
suffering . once the block is removed , healing resumes Using the
detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training
sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

On the medication
I carry the dark matter
Against luminous infinity
The nocturne beckons
My desire to live

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White capsule
Moon swallowing dark
The universe reversed
Back into nothing

Or calloused fists beating
The house to cave
A rattle waking
The insides

Or the apparition
Of my mother having
Never left a ghost
Of her nurturing

The dead bolt locks us alone
the hearth of home sweltering
How we’ve grown to
Sweat off the night

Or the closing in
Of the room
The bed—
All the bodies

I place gravity
On the wet earth
Of my tongue
Citalopram-slated
Beauty, swallows
This black

An eclipse happens
In my body, each
Morning, I am 10mg
Better than when I’ve
Awakened

I have not asked
This land to welcome
Me back, living
Is endless
In its mercy

The permanence
Of medicine, the faltering
Craters of me, the sun
O, the sun, journeys
The joy of my throat