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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.
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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
Feb 20, 2024
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Been going for a month and this shit hits like nothing else! Shoutout my psychiatrist’s student in training who recommended it!
Does she judge me about my recent shr**m usage? Maybe a little. But she’s so cool and reassuring otherwise! I thought my mindset was wrong and i’ve felt so not normal compared to my friends but so far she‘s helped confirm my sentiments!
Being validated and listened to is so cool, can’t recommend it enough if youre in a funk
Apr 25, 2024
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Like the psychiatry industrial complex is real and im not sure me having therapy ever truly escapes this but she is great and also South African and is ready to place everything in a societal contexts and really unpack the origins of different notions of the uses and non uses of diagnosis with me. and like wow she is just great.
Feb 14, 2025
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lately I have been talking and talking and talking into my voice memos app, thinking about getting some empty tapes and a tape recorder and transferring my form of journaling into this form. my mind moves so fast, it is nice to clear my thoughts in that way :-)
Aug 29, 2024
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I started a radio show on a community radio station back in August. I have wanted to have a radio show for sooooo long. I am so happy I finally am doing it. The past few months I have had guests every week who are electronic musicians/DJs from western mass (where it is located) but also from all over. I am always looking for more people to come on the show🤓I love djing also it is so magical to me. I have learned so much and have gained confidence in myself.
Apr 6, 2024
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instead of texts. I feel like me and my friends who I do this with send each other a whole podcast to listen to throughout the day.
Apr 6, 2024