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lifechanging psychotherapy technique that reprocesses old memories and changes your beliefs around them simply by making your eyes move back and forth
i’ve been in therapy since I was 12 and nothing has helped me like EMDR. it has truly changed the way I perceive myself, the world, my life. I stay preaching about it
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I have been hard at work in therapy for the past 8 + years, working through old wounds and traumas. I did a combo of CBT and art therapy for 5 years with a therapist named Rebecca. She changed my life. I moved away and needed to find a new therapist (oh man it was an interesting journey trying different therapists out, this one guy was an old Cali Jungian who made me feel crazy and shit on mentally ill people every session I had with him and sent me a lengthy angry text message when I ended things with him.) Now, I am trying EMDR with a different therapist named Rebecca - it’s working out great. We have been doing a lot of visualizations while I hold these two buzzers in my hands. I pictured myself putting this friend of mine who fuckboy’d me into a blue velvet ottoman cartoon style. With a slide whistle sound effect and everything. I reimagined this creepy guy experience. This dude was yapping at me in a creepy way, with EMDR my brain shrunk him down into a cartoon mouse and I couldn’t understand a word he was saying. I cried laughing crom some of these EMDR experiences.
Apr 5, 2024
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not the first and probably not the last time i will recommend this on here but seriously this rewired my entire brain im so grateful
Feb 7, 2024
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don't shred your ticket out of hell. recommend for anyone who has never had a good experience in the very sterile/clinical/de-spiritualized world of cbt dbt emdr ect acronym therapy
Mar 29, 2024
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Spring always brings it out of me. The buds on the trees! The breezy warmth! The tulips appearing where there was once only a small patch of dirt for dogs to piss on! Everything is incredible and awesome and absurd and I’m always so grateful for the moments I can get past my own relatively small problems to stand in awe of the world :,)
Apr 12, 2024
you choose a decade and a country and it gives you obscure music from that time and place. built from the private collections of djs and crate diggers all over the world, there are so many gems on here. bonus roadtrip game–play a song and make your car mate guess the country/decade
Feb 20, 2024
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I have lots and generally stopped overthinking them after my first one. In theory, permanently marking your body is seen as an eternal commitment that carries a ton of weight, but I’ve really benefitted from flipping that on its head and using tattoos as a practice to remind myself of the impermanence of life and of my body (we’re all going to die :)). Now I give them to myself with needles from amazon, I let friends tattoo me, I get them on a whim when I’m traveling. I think a lot of people are scared of carrying physical markers of all the different people they’ve been (myself included), but I think doing so is actually a great practice in self acceptance—carrying all those versions of you, on you, all the time, baring them for others to see. The ones I got 4 years ago that I wouldnt get today don’t bother me even though I no longer resonate with them; they’re a personal history of sorts. And because of the whole death thing, all tattoos are temporary :)
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